2023-06-02 Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona, Spain/Source 1

Notes

A decent pro-shot video. Unlike the Twitch stream of this video, there is no irritating overlay taking up the border of the screen, there are just a couple watermarks. It contains a lot of flashing images, so a major seizure warning comes with watching this. A "flashing images" warning was also displayed on screen between Everything Counts and Precious. Video has all sorts of effects, black fades between camera shots for some songs, and lengthy black screens between songs, even extending in to some songs' intros (In Your Room and Stripped for example). Regarding the visual effects and black screens, AmazonMusic said in Twitch chat (see screenshots to the right):

Visual effects are creative choices from the band to accompany the performance.

IN CASE! some of you are new... There are no issues with production, these are all creative choices by the band.

PeterToo's explanation of the broadcast from the Home forum.

However, PeterToo from the Home forum later stated on October 22, 2023 (slightly edited for clarity):

[I have] no idea why the festival stated what they did. Having spoken to both the audio and video techs, I can assure you: The Barcelona broadcast was not what they wanted [to be] broadcast.

FOH [front of house] does two mixes every night - one that's balanced for PA [public address], and another which is balanced for broadcast. The latter is basically a pre-set that works well for broadcast no matter what the venue is like.

The PA mix was used [for the broadcast].

The band's own guy does the visuals with side screens in mind - that's meant to enhance the live experience for the audience. Visually, that wouldn't necessarily work very well for broadcast. The festival clearly had a camera crew and their own editors, but for some reason just plugged into the "side screen" feed and seemingly decided that'd have to do.

Audio mixing is fine. Frequency response is mediocre, particularly considering the insane 512kbps bitrate and file size, going up to only about 14.5khz. Dave's vocals have some distortion during John The Revelator.

The audio by itself from this video is available as Source 2.

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You can watch this entire recording below. The embed below is set to a smaller size to avoid taking up the whole page; be sure to expand to full screen for best quality.

REMINDER: FLASHING IMAGES

Track list

1. [2:38] Intro
2. [5:09] My Cosmos Is Mine
3. [3:33] Wagging Tongue
4. [6:45] Walking In My Shoes
5. [5:14] It's No Good
6. [5:06] In Your Room
7. [6:35] Everything Counts
8. [5:15] Precious
9. [6:52] Home (*)
10. [4:15] Ghosts Again
11. [5:06] I Feel You
12. [4:27] A Pain That I'm Used To
13. [5:15] World In My Eyes
14. [5:15] Stripped
15. [4:00] John The Revelator
16. [10:35] Enjoy The Silence
17. [5:55] Just Can't Get Enough
18. [6:30] Never Let Me Down Again
19. [7:31] Personal Jesus

• Total time: 1:46:05

Lineage

• Amazon Prime Video live stream -> unknown downloading application (highest resolution and bitrate stream) -> mkvmerge v75.0.0 ('Goliath') 64-bit -> MKV -> MKVToolNix (add chapters) -> MKV -> LosslessCut (remux to MP4 file, no re-encoding)
• Capture: intellect at rutracker.org
• Video specifications: HEVC ~9970kb/s 1920x1080 30FPS
• Audio specifications: 512kbps 48khz AAC-LC stereo

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