venerdì 8 dicembre 2023

New Order - 1982-12-08 - Wellington, NZ (SBD/FLAC)




(Soundboard FLAC)

New Order 
Victoria University, 
Wellington, New Zealand 
December 8th, 1982 
2nd generation soundboard recording 

Lineage
Traded 2nd generation Maxell XLII (type II) cassette tape -> Aiwa ADF770 3-head dual capstan cassette deck -> Creative SB soundcard -> CoolEdit pro 2.1 -> WAV -> CD-R -> EAC -> WAV -> TLH -> FLAC 8 & .ffp 

01 - Your Silent Face 08:17 
02 - Temptation 07:22 
03 - Dreams Never End 03:22 
04 - The Him 04:57 
05 - Leave Me Alone 05:33 
06 - In A Lonely Place 05:35 
07 - Hurt 07:45 
08 - Denial 04:34 
09 - Age Of Consent 06:17 
10 - Blue Monday 09:30 
11 - 5-8-6 16:21 

Total length: 80 minutes approx.

A very good (close to excellent) quality soundboard recording, sourced from a 2nd generation cassette copy of a soundboard recording. The vocals are a bit lower in the mix than other New Order mixing desk recordings I have from around this period, and also the mix has what some might call a bass 'hump', but otherwise it sounds great to me. Note also that, because there was some noticeable hiss on the original tape (unless it was played back with the original Dolby C - which unfortunately would have made it sound unnaturally compressed in the case of this particular brand of cassette), the hiss has been substantially reduced by me using a gradated (i.e. variable) noise reduction in CoolEdit Pro before originally being transferred to CD-R by me many years ago. No other modifications (other than track splitting) were made to the original sound of the captured tape, either at the time, or later.

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