Civic Center, Philadelphia PA

Notes from torrent:

A digital source with a thousand cuts/digital noise issues...

Most of the major digital glitches present in the source recording bookend micro gaps in the wave file. There are are also instances of digital noise (both major and minor) where this is not the case.

The following tracks suffered from a multitude of these micro gaps with digital noise: Counting Out Time, Carpet Crawlers, The Chamber Of 32 Doors, Lilywhite Lilith, The Waiting Room, Anyway, The Lamia, Silent Sorrow In Empty Boats, Riding The Scree, and The Musical Box.

Fly On A Windshield, In The Cage, and The Grand Parade Of Lifeless Packaging also suffered from some gaps/digital noise issues.

Each gap/digital noise instance was removed/repaired manually using Audacity.


Other work completed:

Both discs had an imbalance in the channels with the right channel being lower and with more hiss present throughout. To create a better balance in the channels without adding too much his to the right channel I completed the following edits in Audacity:

1. joined all tracks from the first disc as a single track and all tracks from the second disc as a single track.

2. For each of these 2 tracks, I duplicated the track, swapped stereo channels, and deleted the left channel from the duplicate track (which was originally the right channel)

3. reduced the amplification by -3 db (first disc) and -4 db (second disc) of the duplicate right channel (which was originally the left channel)

4. mixed and rendered as a new track.

5. Normalized each track to -0.2 db and removed DC offset

Simply stated, the right channel is now a mix of the left channel and the right channel with a nice balance and not too much added hiss.

--Split into separate tracks.

--Slight fade of Anyway at the cut toward the end of the song.

--Applause following The Musical Box is faded out.

--Sector Boundary Errors fixed using Traders Little Helper.


Further notes:

--A 17-second 'Interlude' was all that is present on the source and it's an unlistenable garbled mess with a loud scream from an audience member. I separated this track from the start of The Lamia and patched a 4 second clip of applause (from after The Grand Parade) to the beginning of The Lamia to smooth the transition to the track.

--Given the multitude of instances of digital noise in Counting Out Time and Carpet Crawlers I have left alone those that were minor and did not detract from the listening experience.

--The Lamia suffers from dropouts in the right channel, which was also not well amplified. The dropouts have only been lessened by the mixing of the left channel with the right channel.

--Here Comes the Supernatural Anaesthetist is missing from the source and consequently from this version.

--The included artwork is the template created by coppola for the source recording. I have altered the text to match this restored version.

woolie
August 2020

All copies currently in circulation suffer from digital noise [Simon_Funnell]

Drove down from North Jersey to see this show as my band was working on the weekend of the New York shows at The Academy of Music. [ludwigvanbear]