Bruce Springsteen - 1988-07-19 - Berlin, DE (FM/FLAC)

Bruce Springsteen - 1988-07-19 - Berlin, DE
(FM broadcast FLAC)

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band 
Radrennbarn Weissensee 
East Berlin, Germany 
July 19, 1988 
Broadcast Edition: Revisited & Remastered 

Transfer: 
'Rockin' In The Bandlands' CD > xACT 2.37 (secure rip) > Peak Pro XT (pitch adjusted) > iZotope RX / Ozone 5 (remastered) > Peak Pro 6 (patch / post production) > xACT 2.37 > FLAC 

01 Badlands 
02 Out In The Street 
03 Boom Boom 
04 Adam Raised A Cain (Audience) 
05 All That Heaven Will Allow (Audience) 
06 The River 
07 Cover Me (Audience) 
08 Brilliant Disguise (Audience) 
09 The Promised Land 
10 Spare Parts 
11 War 
12 Born In The USA 
13 Chimes Of Freedom 
14 Paradise By The C 
15 Who Do You Love > She's The One 
16 You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch) 
17 I'm A Coward 
18 I'm On Fire 
19 Downbound Train 
20 Because The Night 
21 Dancing In The Dark 
22 Light Of Day > Land Of A Thousand Dances 
23 Born To Run 
24 Hungry Heart 
25 Glory Days 
26 Can't Help Falling In Love 
27 Bobby Jean 
28 Cadillac Ranch 
29 Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out 
30 Sweet Soul Music 
31 Twist And Shout > Havin' A Party 

Known Faults: 
-Brilliant Disguise: end cut 
-4 songs patched with Audience tape 
-War > Born In The USA: less than 1 second patched in transition restoring opening note of Born In The USA. 

While working on the recently released audience version of this historic event I thought it would be nice to also present a new broadcast version for the 30th Anniversary. I hit up all the usual collectors but failed in finding a new version of the broadcast. So while using this version to fill in the gaps of the audience tape I began fooling around with a little remastering. 

I normally don't remaster already existing shows for sharing but after working on the songs that I would need for the audience gaps I thought the remastering was quite nice. 

Although the quality of this version in its original form is very good, I've always felt it was somewhat flat as well as having numerous drops in volume and a number of rough transitions. 

I was able to make improvements in a number of areas. After ensuring the pitch was accurate, the original runs just a touch slow, the dc offset was removed aligning the channels. All volume fluctuations and drops have been fixed and leveled, rough transitions have been smoothed and I added one patch of just under one second to the transition between "War > Born In The USA" from the audience capture so the jump cut is no longer there and the missing opening note to "Born In The USA" is restored. 

Lastly, I wanted to open up the stereo spectrum giving it more headroom and space to breathe. I've been using iZotope's 'eq match' function to match patches with, at times, good success but have not tried it on a full show until now. Using the official Stockholm '88 release as the basis for the frequency 'match' imho the results are quite pleasing and to my ears the songs seem to have more life to them. 

As for the audience songs that were patched, I only made sure the pitch was correct and did some extracting of the most severe audience noises. The quality of the audience patches is very good and not a shock to the ears. 

It was not possible to fix the strange distant sound that portions of some songs suffer from when the broadcast switched camera angles, however all drops in volume have been smoothed so it is not as rough a transition, I hope overall you find this a solid improvement and a worthy remaster of this historic document.