Melbourne Memoirs Vol. 5 re-transfer
National Tennis Centre
Melbourne, Australia.
14 - October - 1989.
Attendance: 16.000 (sellout) - Support: Weddings Parties Anything, BB King
Disc 1 (54:19)
01. All You Need is Love (PA)
02. Where the Streets Have No Name
03. I Will Follow
04. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
05. All I Want is You
06. MLK
07. The Unforgettable Fire
08. Exit
09. Gloria
10. Desire
11. All Along the Watchtower
12. Help
13. Bad
Disc 2 (55:30)
01. October
02. New Year's Day
03. Pride (In the Name of Love)
04. Angel of Harlem
05. When Love Comes to Town / The Midnight Hour
06. Love Rescue Me
07. Star Spangled Banner / Bullet the Blue Sky
08. Running to Stand Still
09. With or Without You
10. - Harry's Game (PA outro) -
Recording Equipment - History
Toshiba Analog recorder > Stereo line in clip-on microphone > Analog Master (TDK SA-90 cassettes) > Black Onkyo TA-2600 > Digidesign 002 Rack interface > Sony Oxford Limiter > Sound Forge 10 > FLAC
Taper: Boyacrobat
Location: higher balcony on right (Adam's side) row 26
Re-transfer: D.G. (Blackout)
Additional notes (by Blackout): Following recent disussions with the legend Boyacrobat about his famous Lovetown Melbourne recordings I convinced him to revisit some of his tapes for a possible retransfer session of some of his masters. The feeling was that some distortion may have crept into the original transfers that he performed and released several years ago. Indeed this turned out to be the case upon examination. The tapes were originally recorded *very hot* by his portable Toshiba cassette recorder due to the voltage that the mic he used for recording was injecting into the unit, which was unavoidable. There is small amounts of distortion due to this but the bigger problem was that when transferring the tapes for release, the level was also *very hot* coming off the tape and the deck he used for the original transfers did not have the headroom to handle these hot tapes and was driven into distortion and clipping when playing back. This time the transfer was done with a pro deck, a mint-condition Black Onkyo TA-2600 and into pro-tools via the Digidesign 002 Rack interface. Some other problems were corrected such as speed issues, frequency-phase correlation and image stabilisation and a more gentle maximizing from Sony Oxford Limiter. No EQ. Final FLAC was done with Sound Forge 10. The entire signal chain was handled with care and with the utmost attention to detail. The result is a far superior recording that is higher resolution with far less distortion and more headroom/punch with clarity. This is truely the definitive ultimate recording / transfer of this classic Melbourne Lovetown recording for your collection!
Comments
This is an upgraded version of the so-called 'Melbourne Memoirs vol. 5' taped by 'boyacrobat'. It is a fresh transfer by 'Blackout' using a pro-deck and remastering the stuff. It offers brilliant sound quality with pretty good clarity and a solid sound. The original high clipping has now been reduced, and it sounds now like some tape-hiss in the background. Bad contains two skips at 0:11 and 0:24 that cut off a few seconds of the song. Likely an "exc-" in terms of sound quality.
Exit was played for the only time during the LoveTown tour. The show seemed to finish with Love Rescue Me, but the band returned for three more songs.