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1982-12-14 Muziekcentrum Vredenburg, Utrecht, The Netherlands/Source 4

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Notes

An excellent FM broadcast recording, presented in stereo. This source is higher-fidelity and sounds more consistent compared previously available versions.

The beginning of My Secret Garden is missing, and the transition between My Secret Garden and Leave In Silence has a lousy edit, with Dave's introduction of "See You" being heard in the background. Additionally, the final chorus of Boys Say Go! has somebody talking over it. This fileset is purposely left unedited, with the best-sounding, most-complete "rework" of this concert available as Source 1.

The audio is sourced from a DAT clone copied in LP mode, which is recorded at 32KHz. The DAT was captured at its native resolution to avoid unnecessary resampling, and remains as a 32khz fileset for this source. However, this is sufficient for an FM broadcast recording, as the high-end frequencies do not extend much past 13khz anyway.

A VHS master recording of 5 songs, plus an interview from the "Countdown" program, is available courtesy of TravisBickle1963. The video from the VHS is available as Source 2, and its audio alone as Source 3, respectively.

Many thanks to "subwave collection CH" for acquiring this DAT long ago and to Vince for his assistance with securing the tape.

Listen

You can listen to this entire recording below.

Track list

The source DAT.
  1. [7:09] Play My Secret Garden
  2. [4:25] Play Leave In Silence
  3. [4:02] Play New Life
  4. [2:44] Play Boys Say Go!
  • Total time: 18:20

Lineage

  • FM radio broadcast -> unknown taper and equipment -> master analog source (probably a cassette) -> unknown playback and recording decks -> clone in LP mode to Sony DT-90 DAT -> Sony SDT-9000 SCSI tape drive -> WaveDAT software -> WAV 16/32 -> in Audacity 3.3.3: sped up 3.5%, phase corrected, normalized to -0.1dB and any DC offset removed -> WAV (16/32) -> FLAC level 8 (16/44) using foobar2000 v2.0, FLAC 1.4.2 64-bit
  • Generation: master
  • Transfer: DMLiveWiki on May 27, 2023
  • DAT photo, inlay scan, and auCDtectTaskManager log included

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