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1993-12-20 Wembley Arena, London, England, UK/Source 2

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Notes

A good audience recording of the final concert of the 1993 "Devotional" Tour. There are a couple noisy screamers around the taper, unfortunately. A live string section was used for the performance of One Caress. Behind The Wheel ends about 30 seconds early, and Halo is missing the first half of the recording, probably due to tape flip as the opening act "Marxman" was also recorded by the taper. There is considerable wow & flutter audible throughout, and there is general distortion present due to microphone or tape oversaturation. The opening act by Marxman was present on the second tape and was transferred, but it is not included here.

These cassettes were purchased by DIME user "amicouligano" at the Camden Market in 1994, and he shared his transfer of these exact cassettes on DIME years ago. Many thanks to him for sending me these cassettes from Italy for transfer. Compared to the previous version, this version is azimuth optimized and far clearer in general, and without any digital clipping introduced during the transfer.

Listen

You can listen to this entire recording below.

Track list

The source tapes.
  1. [7:56] Play Higher Love
  2. [5:04] Play Policy Of Truth
  3. [6:10] Play World In My Eyes
  4. [6:53] Play Walking In My Shoes
  5. [5:19] Play Behind The Wheel
  6. [2:49] Play Halo
  7. [5:28] Play Stripped
  8. [4:00] Play Condemnation
  9. [4:55] Play A Question Of Lust (*)
  10. [4:02] Play One Caress (*)
  11. [4:25] Play Mercy In You
  12. [7:11] Play I Feel You
  13. [5:00] Play Never Let Me Down Again
  14. [4:44] Play Rush
  15. [7:44] Play In Your Room
  16. [5:51] Play Personal Jesus
  17. [6:59] Play Enjoy The Silence
  18. [4:31] Play Somebody (*)
  19. [5:40] Play Everything Counts
  • Total time: 1:44:41

Lineage

  • unknown taper and equipment -> two low-generation TDK D90 type I cassette tapes -> Nakamichi MR-1 professional discrete head cassette deck (playback azimuth optimized per tape) -> Mogami 2534 XLR to TRS cables -> Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 3rd gen USB audio interface -> WAV (32/88.2) -> recorded in Audacity 2.4.2 using WASAPI input; normalized to -0.1dB and any DC offset removed, track splits -> WAV (32/88.2) -> downsampled to FLAC level 8 (16/44) using foobar2000 v1.6.2, FLAC 1.3.3 64-bit, and foobar2000's Resampler (SoX) component v0.8.3 (best quality), dithering enabled
  • Taper: unknown
  • Transfer: DMLiveWiki on December 11, 2020
  • auCDtectTaskManager log and cassette photos included

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