Audience

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DVD 2369; lineage: Audience recording/WM-D3 (analog) => 1st gen. => CDR => EAC => Audigy Audio Cleaning Lab* => WAV => FLAC Frontend. Transferred by: ademotte. Audigy was used to split tracks and slightly adjust high and low end upward. Furthermore, the +1 kHz band was lowered to reduce echo.

Notes: I got this in trade back in 1988 from a Chicago-area trader.
He was a freshman at U of I and *not* a regular taper; he used a Sony
D-3 Walkman recorder with clip-on stereo mikes. I was really impressed
by the quality at the time; I'm not as impressed today in the era
of ALD, IEM, and professional-quality stealth mikes, but it's still a
pretty good, clear recording nonetheless. The limitations of the microphones are
apparent in the limited dynamics and somewhat shrill higher ranges; EQ'ing
this tape was a choice of either tolerating some shrillness or having
the vocals buried in the heavy bass. I chose the former, but you may wish
to play with the settings somewhat before you burn this.

I don't want to set anyone's expectations too high -- this is not a
fabulous recording, but it's definitely enjoyable and captures the band
at their peak. I wanted to get this one out there before the cassette
decomposes; it's a good document from a show in a college town, but won't
win any awards in terms of sound quality.

The "Star Spangled Banner" is mostly missing; I think this was the first show
this guy ever taped, so he was not yet quite up to the challenge of switching tapes
in the dark.

Enjoy the show!

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