1985-06-13 Rotterdam (Alternative Source).txt
1985-06-13 Rotterdam (Alternative Source)
Audience Tape
This is an alternative source to the circulating El Corazon Rocks The Lowlands Again.
I have 2 sets of tapes for this source though one set was better and was used for this upload.
Tapes are of unknown generation from UK Record Fairs.
Quality is pretty good and very listenable though there are indications that the recorder was not set up quite to their satisfaction at the start. Some subtle but audible adjustments are then applied around 30 seconds into Born In The USA! I would suggest keeping the volume down right at the beginning. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
The section of the crowd around the taper clearly enjoyed singing along and provides a nice atmosphere.
The tapes did have other issues which were fixable.
1. Major channel inbalance. Azimuth adjustment and normalisation applied.
2. Probably running a little fast. 2.5% adjustment applied to match other shows around that date. Note the circulating source appears to run slow when I checked speeds against other shows around that date so I did not align to that source.
3. The recording levels on the tapes were low particularly sides 2 and 4 resulting in fairly significant tape hiss. Denoise applied to reduce the hiss though there is still some. It would be possible to reduce it further but would require considerable trial and error and I dont want to be over aggressive and risk impacting quality.
Lineage
Tapes set one 1 Sony HF90 - 2 Sony HF90
Playback Yamaha KX-480 Cassette Deck with dolby off. Playtrim neutral.
External Furutech ADL GT40a analogue to digital converter set in Windows for 24/96 transfer. All other sound devices disabled.
Recorded using iZotope RX3 Advanced with enabled ASIO ADL driver as internal 32bit float/96000 wav file and saved as a raw transfer. Azimuth adjustment and normalisation using RX3. Denoise and speed adjustment using RX3.
Edits applied in Audacity to join overlaps across tape sides for Trapped to Prove It All Night and Dancing In The Dark to Hungry Heart.
Resampled to 16-44 using RX3 and files converted to flac using TLH.
Tracks have been checked for errors and SBE's using TLH.
101-Born In The U.S.A.
102-Badlands
103-Out In The Street
104-Johnny 99
105-Darkness On The Edge Of Town
106-Shut Out The Light
107-The River
108-Working On The Highway
109-Trapped
110-Prove It All Night
111-Glory Days
202-My Hometown
203-Thunder Road
204-Cover Me
205-Dancing In The Dark
206-Hungry Heart
207-Cadillac Ranch
208-I'm On Fire
209-Because The Night
210-Backstreets
301-Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
302-Can't Help Falling in Love
303-Born To Run
304-Bobby Jean
305-Ramrod
306-Sherry Darling
307-Twist And Shout - Do You Love Me
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