(FM broadcast FLAC)
Lineages:
Tracks 1, 7-10:
Sounddesk > cassette Hans de Vente > Nakamichi Dragon > Audacity > Wav 96/24 > FLAC > CoolEdit > Wav 44/16.
Tracks 2, 3, 5, 6, 11, 12 .
FM broadcast 1982 > cassette Hans de Vente > Nakamichi Dragon > Audacity > Wav 44/16.
Tracks 4, 13:
FM broadcast 2006 > Onkyo TX-SR600E ->M-Audio 1010LT ->Adobe Audition v2.0 -> Wav 44/16.
01. Psycho killer
02. Cities
03. Big blue Plymouth
04. Once in a lifetime
05. Mind
06. My big hands
07. Big business
08. I Zimbra
09. Swamp
10. Slink
11. Houses in motion
12. Life during wartime
13. Take me to the river
Running time: 68:20
This upgrade comes courtesy of the Talking Heads tapes Hans de Vente
shared last year. Among them were 25 minutes of this concert recorded
from the sounddesk: Psycho killer, Big business, I Zimbra, Swamp and
Slink. Quality was of course better than that of the two FM broadcasts
(1982 and 2006) that were available. Also, Slink was a track that was
never broadcast (I guess they considered a solo Jerry Harrison track
less interesting).
I tried to combine these five tracks with the FM broadcasts, but this
did not work out well. The 2006 FM broadcast has great sound but its
compressed and in-your-face quality did not fit in with the sounddesk
tracks. And the available recording of the 1982 broadcast was simply not
very good.
I had just about given up about the idea when I discovered among the
myriad Talking Heads tapes Hans shared an excellent recording of the
1982 FM broadcast. This one fit much better with the sounddesk tracks.
And it makes the recording closer to how things originally sounded. So I
used this for the other tracks and added to it only two tracks from the
2006 broadcast, Once in a lifetime (not broadcast in 1982) and Take me
to the river (which faded halfway into the bleeps of the news, a
bittersweet throwback to how things were, listening to Dutch radio).
In combining the sources I took the soundboard tracks as point of
departure and used CoolEdit to adapt the other tracks to make
transitions minimal (some equalizing, volume leveling, etc.). You can
still hear a slight difference in sound characterics, with the sounddesk
tracks standing out, but only when listening closely. Also, Slink was
at the end of Hans'tape, so it fades out after about four minutes.
Anyway, these are just minor issues. This is a nice Talking Heads
concert from 1982 with great sound quality. I hope you enjoy it as much
as I do (which won't be easy, believe me).
(Audience FLAC)
