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1985-03-26 Cullen Auditorium, Houston, TX, USA/Source 1

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Notes

A very good audience recording. Hiss is somewhat loud, particularly in the left channel, but it is not too distracting. The first few seconds of Lie To Me are missing due to tape flip and the first few seconds of Shout are missing, probably due to the taper pausing the recorder. This tape has a small damaged portion and two patches of several seconds during Leave In Silence and Everything Counts using the prior source were used to maintain sound quality and listening enjoyment.

This is an upgrade to the prior source previously shared by me in 2014. Though the generation is still unconfirmed, this sounds to be from a low generation copy and sounds noticeably better than the prior source. If anybody knows the taper of this recording, please share as I'd love to try to contact them to transfer the master if it's still in existence.

Many thanks to RP for lending me this cassette to transfer and share.

Listen

You can listen to this entire recording below.

Track list

  1. [0:59] Play Intro
  2. [3:58] Play Something To Do
  3. [4:33] Play Two Minute Warning
  4. [3:53] Play Puppets
  5. [5:09] Play If You Want
  6. [4:11] Play People Are People
  7. [5:00] Play Leave In Silence
  8. [4:10] Play New Life
  9. [4:36] Play Shame
  10. [5:08] Play Somebody (*)
  11. [3:37] Play Ice Machine
  12. [5:24] Play Lie To Me
  13. [5:24] Play Blasphemous Rumours
  14. [4:45] Play Told You So
  15. [5:11] Play Master And Servant
  16. [4:21] Play Photographic
  17. [6:06] Play Everything Counts
  18. [4:12] Play See You
  19. [3:38] Play Shout
  20. [4:51] Play Just Can't Get Enough
  • Total time: 1:29:06

Lineage

The source tape.
  • unknown taper and equipment -> low generation TDK AR100 cassette tape -> Nakamichi MR-1 professional discrete head cassette deck (playback azimuth optimized for each side, playback speed adjusted using pitch control) -> Mogami 2534 XLR to TRS cables -> Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 3rd gen USB audio interface -> WAV (32/88.2) -> captured in Audacity 3.2.0 using WASAPI input; stereo channels phase aligned, two small patches inserted from previous source, normalization and any DC offset removed, track splits -> WAV (32/88.2) tracks -> downsampled to FLAC level 8 (16/44) using foobar2000 v1.6.12, FLAC 1.3.4 64-bit, and foobar2000's Resampler (RetroArch) component at "Highest" quality, dithering enabled
  • Transfer: DMLiveWiki on September 24, 2022
  • Cassette photo and auCDtectTaskManager log included

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