1998-09-07 SKK Indoor Arena, St. Petersburg, Russia/Source 3

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Notes

Great quality video, and despite being recorded using a camera microphone, the audio is quite good. This video is quite unusual, as the footage up until Walking In My Shoes captures the audience from the front of the stage. A Question Of Time predominantly features crowd shots, while World In My Eyes also includes footage of Dave singing, though it still incorporates several crowd shots. Starting with Walking In My Shoes, the video appears to be taken from near the mixing desk area.

Throughout the video, the audio seems to be derived from the camera itself, as even when the camera is positioned near the mixing desk, the enthusiastic screams of the audience remain audible. There are cuts within and between songs, suggesting that no single track is a complete recording. However, it's worth noting that A Question Of Lust, Home, and Condemnation come close to being complete; In Your Room is missing approximately the last minute of the song.

I bought this tape from a UK collector on eBay. He says it's a first-generation VHS copy originating from a Russian TV station's Betacam master.

Watch

You can watch this entire recording below.

Track list

  1. Preshow
  2. Painkiller
  3. A Question Of Time
  4. World In My Eyes
  5. Never Let Me Down Again
  6. Walking In My Shoes
  7. Only When I Lose Myself
  8. A Question Of Lust (*)
  9. Home (*)
  10. Condemnation
  11. In Your Room
  • Total time: 35:55

Lineage

  • Video specifications: H.264 High Profile, 720x556 (display resolution), 3,761 kb/s, 25FPS
  • Audio specifications: WAV PCM 16-bit 48kHz
  • Lineage: original Betacam from a Russian TV station -> first generation unknown brand VHS tape -> Philips VR 1000 SVHS PAL VCR (high-end JVC rebadge), built-in line time base corrector enabled -> S-Video -> DataVideo TBC-1000 frame time base corrector -> S-Video -> ATI Radeon 9600XT All-In-Wonder capture card -> VirtualDub (720x576 HuffYUV lossless capture, 16-bit 48khz LPCM audio capture via stereo RCA cable connected directly to computer's Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi sound card line in) -> AVI container -> 18 pixels of overscan edges masked from the bottom of the video using VirtualDub 1.10.4 64-bit -> AVI container -> video and audio demuxed -> in Audacity 2.1.2: audio normalized to -0.1dB and any DC bias removed, exported to WAV 16/48 -> video encoded to H.264 (Handbrake), "Super HQ" profile, MKV container -> video & audio muxed to MKV, chapters added
  • Transfer: DMLiveWiki
  • Generation: first
  • VHS photos and auCDtectTaskManager log included

Screenshots & tape photos

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