1981-11-07 Polytechnic, Sheffield, England, UK/Source 1

Notes

A decent audience recording sourced from an unknown generation cassette tape. "Boys Say Go!" is missing from this recording, probably due to a late tape flip.

Update 2024-05-10: This version is "Revision A," and is from a slightly improved source with clearer lineage, courtesy of darkdevoted.

Compared to the recently shared remaster, this version has slightly better frequency response, less distortion, more consistent volume levels and stereo balance. Moreover, Just Can't Get Enough is complete, and the recording is not affected by an unnecessary fade between Dreaming Of Me and The Price Of Love. This version also effectively removes a low-level hum around 100Hz without compromising the music.

Despite the presence of MiniDisc encoding in the lineage, with recorded frequencies limited to approximately 8kHz, the omission of data above 15kHz has no perceptible effect in audio quality.

Many thanks to darkdevoted for sharing this version of the audio to re-remaster.

Track list

1. [3:16] Any Second Now
2. [3:29] Photographic
3. [3:07] Nodisco
4. [4:06] New Life
5. [3:26] Puppets
6. [3:51] Ice Machine
7. [4:08] Big Muff
8. [2:19] I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead
9. [2:52] Tora! Tora! Tora!
10. [3:55] Just Can't Get Enough
11. [4:18] What's Your Name?
12. [4:55] Television Set
13. [5:16] Dreaming Of Me
14. [3:37] The Price Of Love

• Total time: 52:35

Lineage

• unknown taper and equipment -> unknown generation cassette -> unknown model Yamaha cassette player -> unknown model Sony MiniDisc deck -> Philips CDR770 CD recorder -> CD-R -> FLAC -> in Audacity: stereo channels phase aligned, speed correction, each tape side independently normalized to -0.1dB and any DC offset removed, notch filter (100hz), track splits -> FLAC level 8
• Transfer: darkdevoted
• auCDtectTaskManager log included

Download

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