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2005-12-09 Patriot Centre, Washington, DC, USA/Source 2

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Notes

Stellar sounding, well-mixed soundboard audio of two songs.

This concert was filmed by video director Blue Leach, and the three singles ('Precious', 'A Pain That I'm Used To', and 'Suffer Well') were released for promotional use to EMI affiliates around the world. These pro-shot video clips are particularly notable as they share visual similarities with the official Live In Milan DVD, except for the video effects added in post-production.

Unfortunately, 'A Pain That I'm Used To' was not present on this tape. The best quality version available for 'A Pain That I'm Used To' is the "high" bandwidth copy on depechemode.com's website back in 2006, available here on archive.org, but it's only at a paltry 15 frames per second with a resolution of 320x175 and 22khz audio – making it a tough watch. These two songs are a massive upgrade to that previous source.

The audio used for these promotional live singles appears to be rehearsal audio. The audio for Suffer Well matches the rehearsal audio available as part of The Complete Depeche Mode iTunes box set. Precious matches this YouTube reupload of the rehearsal audio originally available on the depechemode.com website. The only difference is that crowd noise is added, at least to the beginning and end of each song, to give it a live feel.

You may find the video that this audio was extracted from at Source 1.

Thanks to RyanJ for digitally transferring the MiniDV tape.

Listen

You can listen to this entire recording below.

Track list

  1. [3:38] Play Suffer Well
  2. [4:39] Play Precious
  • Total time: 8:17

Lineage

  • Sony MiniDV tape -> Sony HVR-M15AU deck -> FireWire -> LifeFlix DV Importer -> RAW MOV file -> PCM 16/48 audio demuxed -> in Audacity 2.4.2: each song normalized to -0.1dB and any DC offset removed, track splits -> FLAC level 8 (16/48)
  • Taper: Blue Leach (same director which produced the "Live In Milan" film)
  • Transfer: RyanJ (ninlive.com)
  • auCDtectTaskManager log included

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