Audience

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DVD 563; lineage: audience cassette master [unknown original equipment] > primary source: 1st gen. cassette rebuilt in the 1990's > Nakamichi Dragon. secondary source: 1st gen. reel > unknown playback deck > CDR standalone > Pro Tools ("nip and tuck" edits, normalization and tracking - no equalization or digital noise reduction) > AIFF > xACT (flac level 8 files with sector boundaries verified). This show has circulated widely from higher gen. copies. The master was taped by Neil Ferris to a cassette which self destructed within a year or two of the show. Luckily first gen. cassette and reel copies were traded and survived. All the older copies that circulated were 2nd gen. or higher and had various tape tracking problems and cuts. By the 1990's the 1st gen. cassette no longer played at all but was revived by Dave White who laboriously transferred it into a new housing. It took more than one try but the final result sounds much better than the other previous sources. It's almost entirely complete - lots of seamless repairs were done, with splices from the older 1st gen. reel where necessary. The disc separation was also changed to allow the Tommy section to all fit on one disc.

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