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1994-03-26 Blaisdell Arena, Honolulu, HI, USA/Source 1

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Notes

A very good sounding soundboard recording, Unfortunately, it is inherently lossy with a frequency response limited to 16khz and has harsh equalization applied. This recording has been remastered, adding quite a bit of dynamic range and making the recording much more enjoyable to listen to, since the waveform is no longer a wall of headache-inducing noise. Behind The Wheel and In Your Room, as well as several other tracks, have benefited significantly from automatic phase correction, gaining 6dB of dynamic range at some parts. You can compare the before and after waveforms using the screenshots below.

The following is missing from this recording:

  • "Rush" is missing entirely
  • Halo is incomplete, missing about half the song
  • the first couple seconds of Somebody are missing
  • there are very infrequent small dropouts or skips
  • several seconds after the end of A Question Of Time (losing one of Dave's "thank you"s) and the "Tom Jones Outro" track are missing

Otherwise, this is a complete recording.

An excerpt of Home member uSt0ne's contact with Louis Leal regarding this recording is quoted in this thread on Home, and some of the initial lineage information is inferred from that correspondence. The content is quoted below for those who do not have an account on Home:

Thank you for the compliment. I used a Casio deck that was in the drive rack for the PA system. Did not get to turn the machine on until show started. Only recorded day 2. I used a Casio DA1. Hope that answers all your questions. Brings back memories of long ago times. I actually left the show before it ended and went to see Trent Reznor and NIN at a small club the same night,

Louis

Louis is unresponsive to emails as of late 2023.

There is an alternate copy of this recording with added crowd noise, but otherwise without harsh equalization, dynamic range issues, and lossiness, available at Source 2. It unfortunately is missing the incomplete recording of Halo entirely.

Another variant of this source exists as well, without the dynamic range issues, but still with some apparent lossiness which appears to possibly be a result of MiniDisc encoding, plus characteristics of an analog dub due to a high-pitched ringing noise and slight hiss throughout. It is slightly more complete, with more audio after A Question Of Time ends. At this moment, it is not available on the wiki.

Listen

You can listen to this entire recording below.

Track list

  1. [2:11] Play Halo
  2. [5:20] Play Behind The Wheel
  3. [4:44] Play Everything Counts
  4. [6:28] Play World In My Eyes
  5. [6:31] Play Walking In My Shoes
  6. [5:22] Play Stripped
  7. [3:57] Play Condemnation (*)
  8. [4:43] Play A Question Of Lust (*)
  9. [4:49] Play I Want You Now (*)
  10. [6:40] Play In Your Room
  11. [5:00] Play Never Let Me Down Again
  12. [6:58] Play I Feel You
  13. [5:46] Play Personal Jesus
  14. [4:11] Play Somebody (*)
  15. [6:49] Play Enjoy The Silence
  16. [5:10] Play Policy Of Truth
  17. [4:20] Play A Question Of Time
  • Total time: 1:28:57

Lineage

  • Lineage (inferred from Louis Leal's message quoted above and is likely no longer accurate): DAT Master using Casio DAT deck which was in the PA system rack -> analog (LP mode?) DAT clone recorded on a Casio DA-1 (device has no digital input or output) -> unknown transfer -> "DM Rocks Hawaii" bootleg (audio tampered with? excessive EQ / amplification?) -> Exact Audio Copy v0.99pb4 (perfect settings) -> WAV (16/44) -> in Adobe Audition CC: automatic phase correction (most accurate settings), normalized to -0.1dB and any DC bias removed -> FLAC level 8
  • Taper: Jon, who was the house monitor engineer for this show; see Source 2 for more info. Taper was previously attributed to Louis Leal.
  • Exact Audio Copy logs included

Before and after waveforms

  • Overall waveform before automatic phase correction

    Overall waveform before automatic phase correction

  • Overall waveform after automatic phase correction

    Overall waveform after automatic phase correction

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