Pier 84

Pier 84

New York (New York), USA.

29 - June - 1983.

Disc 1 (72:04)

01. Out of Control

02. Twilight

03. An Cat Dubh

04. Into The Heart

05. Surrender

06. Two Hearts Beat As One

07. Seconds

08. Sunday Bloody Sunday

09. Cry / The Electric Co.

10. I Fall Down

11. October

12. New Year's Day

13. Gloria

14. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock

15. I Will Follow

16. "40"

History

First Gen Tape > CDR(M) > Unknown Generation CDRs > EAC (secure) > 32-bit resampling with SoundForge 5.0 > edits (described below) > resampled to 44.1 kHz > indexes with CDWave > MKW > SHN

Remastering Notes

CDRS were received by Milesian. These are Milesian's comments: 

It clearly comes from the master tape as there were no edits, fades or adjustments. There was slight hiss normal for analog tapes and several blemishes. I believe it comes directly from analog to standalone CDR with perhaps a DAT generation in there. I am attempting to get more information from my source on his source information.
The recording volume was very low from 0:00-1:40, especially in the first 20 seconds. The sound remains muffled, as if the taper didn't get the mics out from cover, before stabilizing at exactly two minutes.
There was a cut at 4:05 between "Out of Control" and "Twilight," which cut in suddenly during the chorus of "in the shadows"...
Cut at 40:40 during the sustain of the last note on "Electric Co." and cut back at 40:48 at end of Bono's intro to "I Fall Down". The right channel was fuller, with more vocals and drums. The entire sound stage sounded skewed significantly to the right.

Edits and Fixes (comments by Milesian)
1. Balanced levels up to 1:40, working separately from 0 to 20 sec. and 21 to 1:40. 
2. In order to prevent the volume increase from raising the relative level of the analog hiss, used CoolEdit 2000 to do a light noise reduction up to the 1:40 mark only before working on the levels.
3. Closed gaps at 4:05 between "Out of Control" and "Twilight" using zero crossings.
4. Closed gap between sustained last note of "Electric Co." and sudden cut into "I Fall Down" intro at zero crossings with slight fade to 30% of audience cheering at end of "Electric Co."
5. Moved sound stage right to left by 30% to center vocals and drums.
6. Normalized both channels simultaneously to maximum peak.

All processing except hiss reduction performed with SoundForge 5.0