1981-09-26 Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands/Source 1

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Notes

Credit to Dennis Burmeister & a Dutch music journalist who attended the concert.

This audio combines a great sounding master FM broadcast recording of about half of the concert with camera audio from a low-generation Betamax video copy of the audience recording from this concert for the songs which were not broadcast on the radio. Cross-fades are used to make the transitions between sources as seamless as possible.

The FM broadcast recording sounds great and about half of the concert was broadcast. There was fairly prominent ground/mains hum which was surgically removed with iZotope RX 10 De-hum, which also has the additional benefit of restoring some dynamic range as the original file set had some plateaus instead of natural peaks for the waveform.

The camera audio is somewhat hissy, but pretty clear and without much crowd noise overall. This audio sounds significantly better than prior audience sources available. This version is sourced from a low-generation Betamax copy which DM Live purchased from OneLittleFonzie. The tape was then transferred with great equipment and care by the excellent TravisBickle1963. After significant delays, this project was finally published in June of 2026.

A few segments were damaged or not present on the Betamax tape copy and a prior source was used to patch in the audio. The first patch is the end of Boys Say Go! where the quality was significantly degraded, probably due to age of the source Betamax tape. What's Your Name? was also damaged, but is irrelevant for this audio since that song was broadcast on the radio. The second patch consists of the last 45 seconds of Dreaming Of Me which are unfortunately missing on this Betamax tape copy. Even the source used for the patch is not quite complete, since it ends cold right after Dave's final "me" which ends the song.

In @danielozable's remaster of a prior version of this recording, a comment left by Hennie Vredeveldt in late 2024 stated:

This is from my private original betamax recirdong i made....with a sony camera......this is the vhs copy
Still have the original betam master tape......before and after the gig i had a meet and greet with the boys
They all did autographs on record covers that i still have today❤

DM Live, DanieL, OneLittleFonzie, and likely other fans have attempted to make contact with Hennie to obtain more information and with the intent to preserve the master tape. At the time of this publication, nobody has been able to make contact with Hennie. Hennie, if you are reading this, please email us at [email protected] to help preserve an even better copy of this wonderful piece of Depeche Mode history!

A scan of a handwritten set list sheet written by a Dutch music journalist who attended the concert is also included. Credit to Dennis Burmeister for the scan.

Thanks to all involved with acquiring, preserving, and quality checking this project: Hennie Vredeveldt (as the possible taper for his monumental efforts filming back then), OneLittleFonzie, TravisBickle1963, DanieL, FpmiP, Robo, Vince DOME, humanracer25, fredheadset (RIP), the fantastic individuals at the Domesday86 Discord, and anyone else I may have forgotten.

Further sources from this concert:

  • A low-generation Betamax audience video recording which uses this combined audio source, published in 2026, can be found at Source 2.
  • The audience recording from the low-generation Betamax video can be found at Source 3.
  • A slightly remastered version of the FM broadcast audio can be found at Source 4.
  • The original file set of the FM broadcast recording shared back in 2008 can be found at Source 5.

Listen

You can listen to this entire recording below.

Track list

  1. [3:12] Any Second Now
  2. [3:32] Photographic
  3. [3:03] Nodisco
  4. [4:19] New Life
  5. [3:29] Puppets
  6. [3:58] Ice Machine
  7. [4:05] Big Muff
  8. [2:19] I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead
  9. [3:15] Tora! Tora! Tora!
  10. [3:47] Just Can't Get Enough
  11. [2:40] Boys Say Go!
  12. [3:01] What's Your Name?
  13. [3:16] Television Set
  14. [3:56] The Price Of Love
  15. [3:24] Dreaming Of Me
  • Total time: 51:16

Lineage

  • (this combined recording): REAPER: merged Source 3 (Betamax camera audio) and Source 4 (remastered FM radio broadcast master cassette recording) -> FLAC level 8 (16/48)
    • auCDtectTaskManager log included
  • (Source 3 - Betamax camera audio): possibly a Sony Betamax camera (unknown model) -> low-generation Betamax copy -> Sony SL-HF100 Betamax deck -> DataVideo TBC-3000 time base corrector -> BlackMagic Intensity Pro capture card -> VirtualDub (Ut lossless video codec / WAV 16/48) -> demuxed WAV audio -> REAPER: high-pass filter @ 40hz to remove subsonic junk, notch filtering to clean up head switching noise, de-hum and volume adjustment -> FLAC level 8 (16/48)
  • (Source 4 - FM audio): VPRO FM Radio Broadcast -> unknown cassette deck -> unknown cassette -> unknown transfer -> Audacity -> CD Wave Editor -> in REAPER: high-pass filter @ 20hz to remove subsonic junk, de-hum and volume adjustment, occasional click removal, fades -> FLAC level 8 (16/44)
    • Taper: fredheadset (RIP); original info file included

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