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1981-06-01 Bridge House, London, England, UK/Source 1

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Notes

A decent audience recording. Boys Say Go! was performed twice on this date, for some reason.

This tape sounds better than prior copies, with better high-frequency response and without audible ground hum. However, this recording exhibits more hiss compared to the previous lossless source, but that variant appears to have significant noise reduction applied, causing artifacts throughout.

There is a minor tape flaw towards the end of Dreaming Of Me, and the last 30 seconds of The Price Of Love are missing from this source. These have been patched using the previously available 256Kbps MP3 version, with unpatched versions of these tracks available in a subfolder, if desired.

The first minute and 20 seconds of Photographic had significant volume fluctuations in the left channel, so the right channel was pasted over the left for this duration, resulting in mono sound.

Thanks to Martin Thorn for lending this cassette for preservation.

Listen

You can listen to this entire recording below.

Track list

  1. [4:43] Play New Life
  2. [3:28] Play Just Can't Get Enough
  3. [4:10] Play Ice Machine
  4. [4:31] Play Big Muff
  5. [3:25] Play Tora! Tora! Tora!
  6. [3:59] Play Dreaming Of Me
  7. [2:44] Play Boys Say Go!
  8. [3:44] Play The Price Of Love
  9. [4:07] Play Photographic
  10. [4:02] Play Television Set
  11. [2:35] Play Boys Say Go!
  • Total time: 41:28

Lineage

The source cassette.
  • unknown taper and equipment -> unknown generation TDK D60 normal position cassette, 1988-1989 stock -> Nakamichi MR-1 professional discrete head cassette deck (pitch adjusted and playback azimuth optimized) -> "Worlds Best Cables" 6-foot Mogami 2534 cables with Neutrik XLR and TRS plugs -> Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 3rd gen USB audio interface -> recorded at 32-bit 88.2kHz in Audacity 3.5.1 using WASAPI input -> in Audacity 3.5.1: hum removal, trims, normalization and level adjustments, track splits, patches -> WAV (24/88.2) tracks -> FLAC level 8 (16/44) using foobar2000 v2.1.5, FLAC 1.4.3 64-bit, and foobar2000's Resampler (SoX) component at "Best" quality, dithering enabled
  • Transfer: DMLiveWiki on May 20, 2024
  • Cassette photo and auCDtectTaskManager log included

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