| Identifier | 9681837 |
| Created At | Tue May 23 2023 23:54:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) |
| Media Type | FLAC |
| Media Count | 1 |
| Note | Queens of the stone age - De Loft, Berlin (DE) November 29, 1998 SDB
** Restored & Remastered** 01. Intro Jam 02. Regular John 03. The Bronze 04. If Only 05. Avon 06. You Would Know 07. Tension Head 08. You Can't Quit Me Baby 09. Born To Hula 10. Hispanic Impressions 11. Mexicola 12. Eccentric Man 13. Cake (Who Shit On Me ?) * 14. Walkin On The Sidewalks Total time: 1h13m28s Line up: Josh Homme: Vocals, Guitar Nick Oliveri: Vocals, Bass Alfredo Hernandez: Drums Dave Catchings: Guitar, Keyboard Pete Stahl: Vocals * Source: Front-of-house soundboard -> Digital or Hi-Rez analog -> CDR Bootleg -> SHN -> CDR (0) -> EAC -> Adobe audition (editing & manual level corrections) -> Cubase SX 3.0 -> (using linMB, UAD Ex-1 & UAD precision limiter) -> CDWave -> FLAC (level6) -> You Mastered & Edited by Prof. Stoned Complete: unknown Soundquality: A -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof says: This new edition provides a whole new listening experience. The sound is a whole lot better, and it also gives a fascinating in what might have been the actual setlist. I always thought of this as one of the more interesting QOTSA soundboard recordings for more a couple of reasons. - The balance between instruments and voices is reasonably good. - It has a track that was rarely performed live, and this is the only recording of it in a good soundquality and with the great Pete Stahl on lead vocals. - There very little good sounding 1998 Qotsa recordings. - It is a very great show, with good singing for 1998 standards. But it was also flawed. - Every track was crudely faded out. Making the audience unhearable. - The recording sounded really thin as it hardly had any low-end and each track differed in volume. - During some moments, the vocals, keyboards and guitar were way too loud. - The trackorder was very questionable. I attempted to restorate these flaws as good as possible. ** I started with "correcting" the track order. This was the most puzzling part, as there's no setlist available from this show. I looked at some other setlists from 1998, but other than seeing that "Regular John" was in most cases the opener, and that 'Walking at the sidewalks' was often at the end, they pretty much differed every time. Then I started to painstakingly study the mixing settings & the wave forms of each individual track. Being a live-soundengineer myself, I know how a P.A. mix can change during a concert, as I taped many of my own and other people's mixes. I put them in order, so that differences in level and sound in each song started to make sense. The theory is that the concert started pretty loud. Then after a couple of songs the house engineer asked Hutch to turn down the volume because of the volume restriction that every venue has. This results in five tracks being a lot less loud (and therfore with less bass guitar in the mix). After these Hutch slowly but gradually starts to make his mix louder again because he misses the punch and depth in the sound that his band needs. He builts the volume up, the bass guitar gets louder again, with the climax (in volume) being the last track, at which point the house engineer is probably having a beer and letting it be, because the concert is nearly over. I won't bother to explain any further what exactly brought me to this new trackorder, but I'm convinced that this is a lot more like the actual trackorder than the original CDr version. You have to see it as an interpretation though. ** I mastered the sound. I started with making all the songs evenly loud manually and I corrected the balance between left and right. Then I mastered it in Cubase with multiband compression to give it that much needed big beefy low-end and also specifically to make the voices sound less isolated from the rest. I achieved this by giving the hi-mid range a 'stronger' treatment. Lastly, I used the limiter for some more volume. Finally, I managed to restore 6 seconds of continious audience response between Tr. 2 & 3, and used that fragment for all the other positions where it was needed as well. It may struck you that there's very little space between the songs, and that some of the edits work better than others. This is a compromis to keep the continuity of the concert, which is so badly missed on the original version. I analysed the waveform and it appears to be lossless (thank god!). ** A bit of history This recording first occured on eBay as a CDR. Supposedly limited to 500 copies, it was made in Germany around May 2003. It has no catalogue or matrix number... Although it was assumed that this concert was held at the "Columbia Fritz" venue, it more likely happend at The Loft. As reported by Alex 'kmh' who lives in Berlin, and who vaguely seemed to remember this concert happening in his town. A very huge credit must go to Shinkibo, who bought the bootleg CDr, and then liberated it among the Qotsa tradingscene. It may not have been circulated at all, if he hadn't done so. This is what he said about it at the time: "this is not a factory pressed cd but a cdr but this is what i call a "perfect" cdr artwork is cool and great quality, a black and white picture is printed on the cdr (not a picture sticked on it) there is absolutely nothing written on the artwork "Queens of the stone age" and "486/500" (number of my copy) is imprinted on the jewel box! i have never seen that before also, on the jewel box, there is a sticker with "queens of the stone age 14 tracks live in berlin 29.11.1998" " Enjoy y'all. Prof. Stoned PS: Like my work ? Check these too: http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=107703 http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=107816 http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=107841 ****************************************** Make sure to bookmark this great QOTSA bootleginfo page: http://www.givethefanwhathewants.info/ You can check the complete setlist of this concert there too. ****************************************** flac fingerprints: Qotsa-1998-11-29-sdb-Tr01.flac:f5b3d894c91932183ccf3f311208eeed Qotsa-1998-11-29-sdb-Tr02.flac:602f177a66b1ba025848293a1a39e44a Qotsa-1998-11-29-sdb-Tr03.flac:7fe9585448182c841fafa338f4c71057 Qotsa-1998-11-29-sdb-Tr04.flac:54a7493b4a023542f811da548408f250 Qotsa-1998-11-29-sdb-Tr05.flac:92d0784662bbba84abe043d830d08bfd Qotsa-1998-11-29-sdb-Tr06.flac:739910bf2daeed599c129cb88b41af33 Qotsa-1998-11-29-sdb-Tr07.flac:c77f167bef84abf4098e83bf330780f9 Qotsa-1998-11-29-sdb-Tr08.flac:b16ca9db0c6ff5a215568877a2416210 Qotsa-1998-11-29-sdb-Tr09.flac:4f2198b40b40040ae4b3933b82d9238b Qotsa-1998-11-29-sdb-Tr10.flac:9935cd4f79ba70c766a1fd55cd5a0453 Qotsa-1998-11-29-sdb-Tr11.flac:66873d345b7cf183d299f2d37c197194 Qotsa-1998-11-29-sdb-Tr12.flac:2bda9bd7088fb2c71054ce5788608ed9 Qotsa-1998-11-29-sdb-Tr13.flac:9d45f3d252f224a85ee8c8f761af41a5 Qotsa-1998-11-29-sdb-Tr14.flac:d90a48b0e40449a22e3093c5de07f7a9 wave verify: 1d41b6ebc6151f655fb1026ec9d20ae5 *Qotsa-1998-11-29-sdb-Tr01.wav fe0a4bd9cbba96659199a74a35b4c60a *Qotsa-1998-11-29-sdb-Tr02.wav bc5ec4b4498edd56b89d7b6a96ab3541 *Qotsa-1998-11-29-sdb-Tr03.wav ca02296c6adfcd7cf32a2468a3b051b7 *Qotsa-1998-11-29-sdb-Tr04.wav d672650c8ab3b22d17c5c4fad33ee6ae *Qotsa-1998-11-29-sdb-Tr05.wav 7a628d7d400f569b1f33d5d32fab2ce9 *Qotsa-1998-11-29-sdb-Tr06.wav bad81d5429fc290178c92cd28e3ad345 *Qotsa-1998-11-29-sdb-Tr07.wav 6d453e3503b234174ef6ca75d6e57c06 *Qotsa-1998-11-29-sdb-Tr08.wav 10d66b7c897f84086277ae209a301b6d *Qotsa-1998-11-29-sdb-Tr09.wav fefa117120df0387b14c1bf304358ec2 *Qotsa-1998-11-29-sdb-Tr10.wav e145bff07f99a380bb46447431902c22 *Qotsa-1998-11-29-sdb-Tr11.wav ba8f87ab19fc27841d152e18cf9ed2a4 *Qotsa-1998-11-29-sdb-Tr12.wav e93c9b9fb8f67ae28ec0d6adfa7f721c *Qotsa-1998-11-29-sdb-Tr13.wav 768e42a00a330577dccdc7f34c727210 *Qotsa-1998-11-29-sdb-Tr14.wav |
| Source Info | restored and remastered version (please see notes) |
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Performance
| Queens of the Stone Age 1998-11-29 De Loft, Berlin, Germany | |
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| Set 1 | Intro Jam
Regular John The Bronze If Only Avon You Would Know Tension Head You Can't Quit Me Baby Born To Hula Hispanic Impressions Mexicola Eccentric Man Cake (Who Shit On Me ?) Walkin On The Sidewalks |
| Set 2 | QOTSA' first headlining performance in Berlin. |
| Set 3 | |
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