Spirit - 1987-04-15 - Huntington Beach, CA (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

Spirit 

1987-04-15 

Night Moves, Huntington Beach, California, USA 

01. Mr. Skin 

02. Shame On You 

03. Nature's Way 

04. Sweet Child 

05. Fresh Garbage 

06. The Blues 

07. Animal Zoo 

08. Dream About A Dream 

09. Dark Eyed Woman 

10. Prelude - Nothing To Hide 

11. I Got A Line On You 

12. Keep Me Satisfied 

13. Expectations 

14. Give Me Your Number 

15. Space Jam 

1:18:59

transfer (Jerry70): cass (unknown generation) > Denon DRM 550 tape deck > M-Audio Microtrack II > WAV 24/96 (2.7 GB) > Ocenaudio (denoise on both tape sides separately, normalise on both tape sides separately, fade-in / fade-out around tape sides) > WAV 24/96 (2.7 GB) > Sox > FLAC 24/96 (1.7 GB) 

16/44 version (Jerry70): WAV 24/96 (2.7 GB) > Ocenaudio (convert sample rate from 96 to 44.1 KHz, export to 16 bits) > WAV 16/44 (836 MB) > Sox > FLAC 16/44 (455 MB) 

denoise settings: Hannin-Periodic, -8 dB, attack 10 ms, release 100 ms

I got this in a trade in the 1990s but more than that I cannot remember. The quality is pretty good so it could be from a radio broadcast or a very good and low generation audience recording. The quality is so good I am going to keep this in 24/96. And share it before it gets stored on a separate hard disk, of course, since apparently this show has not been on Dime before. Randy mentions their "friends from KLSX" but not in a way that I can be sure that this is a radio broadcast from that station. 

There was a fair deal of tape hiss on this but after checking several settings in several parts of the recording not to harm the music. Between the songs, when only a few people are talking, it sounds like the tape is a bit wobbly. I checked and it is already there before denoising, so that is not a side-effect of the denoising process. 

I got the feeling the tape was running a bit slow. Then I copied Mr. Skin and Animal Zoo from the studio album to compare and found out that they played Mr. Skin a tiny bit faster than the original version and Animal Zoo somewhat slower than the studio version. I cannot hear whether the pitch on the second half of the tape side is off so I decided to keep it this way until someone can tell for certain that the speeds needs adjustment and actually do it. ;) Until then, I will enjoy this recording as it is! 

Randy mentions they would play some songs they don't usually play. That is also what makes this a great show. He mentions The Blues might get a different title but I don't know whether that has actually happened, and I am not sure about the title of that last track, Space Jam. Any corrections are welcome.