| Identifier | 8698438 |
| Created At | Tue May 23 2023 23:54:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) |
| Reference Number | 1002 |
| Note | ***Original version + version restored by ED*** (preradio@dimeadozen, preradio@PPTT).
Original version got by trade from 'Oliv2211' (PPTT pseudo). Playlist for both versions: 01 The Drowning Man 02 Splintered in her Head 03 In your House 04 The Funeral Party 05 The Holy Hour 06 Primary 07 Charlotte Sometimes 08 Other Voices 09 All Cats are Grey (cut) 10 At Night 11 The Hanging Garden 12 M 13 Play for Today 14 A Forest 15 Forever 16 The Figurehead - Original version info. To my knowledge, this show hasn't been made available by torrent yet. I seed it here with courtesy of Oliv2211, who traded it with me a year ago. The original recorder seems to be unknown. Sound ranges to fairly bad to disastrous, pitch is half a tone too high, but it's good show, quite intense. - Restored version info. The 'Eight Appearances' tour being my favorite tour from the Cure, I decided to restore the first show of the tour after having restored the last one (see torrent#269035 on Dime). This proved a difficult task! The Figurehead is so bad it's beyond recovery. The other tracks were not in a good state either. Very high background noise, variable L/R phase imbalances, variable L/R level imbalances, and most annoyingly, quite a lot of wow and flutter, against which it's very hard to do anything. In any case, after a lot of work, I managed to get a version I could enjoy listening to. Keep in mind that given even more time, a better restoration is naturally possible, and that a few aesthetic options during the restoration are questionable, such as low-frequency dynamic compression for instance. However, the goal here is not to get a definitive version, which would be possible but would take one month to get! but something you can enjoy listening to. As usual, restoration techniques include spectral matching, L/R delta I corrections, L/R delta T corrections, denoting, master EQing, and this time, given the original recording's bad state, selective frequency compression. Everything was made inside Pro Tools, using the following plug-ins: Elemental Audio Firium, Digidesign EQIII, Waves L2, Waves XNoise, Waves ZNoise, SPL Vitalizer, Digidesign PitchShift. A screen capture for the restoration session can be seen at http://private.1-1-1-1.net/boot/1981-25-11/capture.png. For those interested in restoring, see http://1-1-1-1.net/pages/boot/boot.html for a bit more info. Sample for the original version can be found at http://private.1-1-1-1.net/boot/1981-25-11/orig.mp3 Sample for the restored version can be found at http://private.1-1-1-1.net/boot/1981-25-11/restored.mp3 |
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Performance
| The Cure 1981-11-25 Lyceum, Sheffield, UK | |
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| Set 1 | The Drowning Man Splintered in her Head In your House The Funeral Party The Holy Hour Primary Charlotte Sometimes Other Voices All Cats are Grey (cut) At Night The Hanging Garden M Play for Today A Forest Forever The Figurehead |
| Set 2 | |
| Set 3 | |
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