New Genesis Shows on the Horizon
A couple new Genesis shows on the horizon.
Firstly is the 9 December 1974 show from Boston, MA. This one looks to supplant the recording from the previous night in Providence as the best audience recording of a Lamb Lies Down on Broadway gig. Taper Joe Maloney lent the Digital Brothers his master tapes for this project.
Here are the notes on the recording:
First, the gaps, there where two gaps that had to be fixed. Flying in some material from Providence: an 11" gap at the beginning of Carpet Crawlers patched with a 25" sonically matched and overlapped portion, and a 15" gap in the ambient part of Here Comes The Supernatural Anaesthetist starting after 3'45" from the beginning of the song (it's the point where everyone in the audience seems to want to whistle) patched with 57" from The Providence recording again sonically matched, overlapped and crossfaded.(there actually was a third gap on the crowd before the encore but that never gave problems at all).
The major problem with this Boston recording regarded the fact that it was brutally mono; so, apart from the usual de-noising, equalizing, pumping, brightening, limiting and ambient reconstruction, I faced the decision to reconstruct a believable stereo image which I achieved with the aid of Waves' PS22 plug-in, the best software to obtain a believable stereo image from a mono source (I hope that this doesn't spoil you the enjoiment of these 2 cds, but is in line with my philosophy of not being concerned about what it sounded like back then, but being more concerned about what it should sound like now).
Digital Brothers
The Digital Brothers is a group of a few hard core Genesis fans with professional audio experience. They take low generation tapes of Genesis gigs and "remaster" them - put them in Pro Tools and remove hiss, adjust levels, etc. - before putting them out to the trading world for free. The show should be out in general circulation early next week.
A new and better recording of the infamous booing gig from 3 October 1981, Leiden, Holland has surfaced. (Disgruntled fans booed at the new songs and clamored for the old stuff.) A master copy, in fact. I've heard a snippet of "Dodo" and it sounds really good even with some guy off to the side singing, "Dog-baiter, agitator/asking questions, says he wants to know why". We shall see if this show makes its way into general circulation remastered or not.
Firstly is the 9 December 1974 show from Boston, MA. This one looks to supplant the recording from the previous night in Providence as the best audience recording of a Lamb Lies Down on Broadway gig. Taper Joe Maloney lent the Digital Brothers his master tapes for this project.
Here are the notes on the recording:
First, the gaps, there where two gaps that had to be fixed. Flying in some material from Providence: an 11" gap at the beginning of Carpet Crawlers patched with a 25" sonically matched and overlapped portion, and a 15" gap in the ambient part of Here Comes The Supernatural Anaesthetist starting after 3'45" from the beginning of the song (it's the point where everyone in the audience seems to want to whistle) patched with 57" from The Providence recording again sonically matched, overlapped and crossfaded.(there actually was a third gap on the crowd before the encore but that never gave problems at all).
The major problem with this Boston recording regarded the fact that it was brutally mono; so, apart from the usual de-noising, equalizing, pumping, brightening, limiting and ambient reconstruction, I faced the decision to reconstruct a believable stereo image which I achieved with the aid of Waves' PS22 plug-in, the best software to obtain a believable stereo image from a mono source (I hope that this doesn't spoil you the enjoiment of these 2 cds, but is in line with my philosophy of not being concerned about what it sounded like back then, but being more concerned about what it should sound like now).
Digital Brothers
The Digital Brothers is a group of a few hard core Genesis fans with professional audio experience. They take low generation tapes of Genesis gigs and "remaster" them - put them in Pro Tools and remove hiss, adjust levels, etc. - before putting them out to the trading world for free. The show should be out in general circulation early next week.
A new and better recording of the infamous booing gig from 3 October 1981, Leiden, Holland has surfaced. (Disgruntled fans booed at the new songs and clamored for the old stuff.) A master copy, in fact. I've heard a snippet of "Dodo" and it sounds really good even with some guy off to the side singing, "Dog-baiter, agitator/asking questions, says he wants to know why". We shall see if this show makes its way into general circulation remastered or not.
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