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1984-12-14 Alsterdorf Sporthalle, Hamburg, Germany/Source 1

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Notes

A very good audience recording with some enthusiastic screamers and singers near the taper. Bass frequencies appear to be distorted at times and the recording sounds reverberated.

"Shout" and "Just Can't Get Enough" are missing entirely. Ice Machine misses the ending, and Lie To Me misses the first few seconds, presumably due to a tape flip. The fade between Somebody and Ice Machine was likely added for the 2xCD-R and isn't an actual tape flip.

A duplicated segment during Photographic was removed, and a glitchy segment was patched using an alternate source. Speed and phase corrections were applied and a ringing noise present for the first 45 minutes was cleanly eliminated. Clicks and pops were very loud in the right channel, so I applied click removal only to the right channel, leaving the left channel untouched. While occasional clicks can still be heard in the left channel, they are much less distracting than those removed from the right channel. The hiss remains untouched.

Dave's banter with the audience is frequent during this concert, but his speech is quite hard to discern due to reverberation within the venue.

Listen

You can listen to this entire recording below.

Track list

  1. [1:12] Play Intro
  2. [3:59] Play Something To Do
  3. [4:35] Play Two Minute Warning
  4. [3:54] Play Puppets
  5. [5:11] Play If You Want
  6. [4:13] Play People Are People
  7. [5:02] Play Leave In Silence
  8. [4:14] Play New Life
  9. [4:14] Play Shame
  10. [5:51] Play Somebody (*)
  11. [3:19] Play Ice Machine
  12. [5:24] Play Lie To Me
  13. [5:26] Play Blasphemous Rumours
  14. [4:47] Play Told You So
  15. [5:14] Play Master And Servant
  16. [4:24] Play Photographic
  17. [6:06] Play Everything Counts
  18. [5:10] Play See You
  • Total time: 1:22:16

Lineage

  • Unknown taper and equipment -> unknown generation cassettes -> unknown transfer -> 2xCD-R -> Exact Audio Copy (poor settings) -> in Adobe Audition CC 2014.1: duplicated audio during Photographic removed + glitched segment patched with alternate source, automatic phase correction (auto align channels, auto center panning, all settings set to most accurate possible), automatic click removal (heavy reduction, right channel only), notch filter @ 15,625hz at -18dB (Super Narrow, Ultra Quiet) for the first 45 minutes of the recording, entire recording slowed down 1.0% ("iZotope Radius" algorithm), normalized to -0.1dB and any DC bias removed -> WAV -> tracked using Audacity 2.0.6 -> WAV tracks -> FLAC 16-bit 44.1khz using FLAC 1.3.0 64-bit (level 8 compression) and foobar2000 v1.3.6
  • Exact Audio Copy, auCDTectTaskManager logs, and bootleg artwork included
  • Remastered and shared by DMLiveWiki on DIME; December 13, 2014.
  • Thanks to Wiecor for uploading his alternate source used for the patch.

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