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1981-11-07 Polytechnic, Sheffield, England, UK/Source 1

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Notes

A decent audience recording sourced from an unknown generation cassette tape. "Boys Say Go!" is missing from this recording, probably due to a late tape flip.

Update 2024-05-10: This version is "Revision A," and is from a slightly improved source with clearer lineage, courtesy of darkdevoted.

Compared to the recently shared remaster, this version has slightly better frequency response, less distortion, more consistent volume levels and stereo balance. Moreover, Just Can't Get Enough is finally complete, and it eliminates the strange fade between Dreaming Of Me and The Price Of Love. This version also effectively removes a low-level hum around 100Hz without compromising the music.

Despite the presence of MiniDisc encoding in the lineage, with recorded frequencies limited to approximately 8kHz, the omission of data above 15kHz has no perceptible effect in audio quality.

Many thanks to darkdevoted for sharing this version of the audio to re-remaster.

Listen

You can listen to this entire recording below.

Track list

  1. [3:16] Play Any Second Now
  2. [3:29] Play Photographic
  3. [3:07] Play Nodisco
  4. [4:06] Play New Life
  5. [3:26] Play Puppets
  6. [3:51] Play Ice Machine
  7. [4:08] Play Big Muff
  8. [2:19] Play I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead
  9. [2:52] Play Tora! Tora! Tora!
  10. [3:55] Play Just Can't Get Enough
  11. [4:18] Play What's Your Name?
  12. [4:55] Play Television Set
  13. [5:16] Play Dreaming Of Me
  14. [3:37] Play The Price Of Love
  • Total time: 52:35

Lineage

  • unknown taper and equipment -> unknown generation cassette -> unknown model Yamaha cassette player -> unknown model Sony MiniDisc deck -> Philips CDR770 CD recorder -> CD-R -> FLAC -> in Audacity: stereo channels phase aligned, speed correction, each tape side independently normalized to -0.1dB and any DC offset removed, notch filter (100hz), track splits -> FLAC level 8
  • Transfer: darkdevoted
  • auCDtectTaskManager log included

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