"CELEBRATE (HATTUM '82)"
- speed corrected & remastered soundboard
*Recording made by Veronica Omroep Organisatie (VOO)
for Countdown Café (see details below).
Transfer by Stadtfelder (2012)#
Remaster by BIGGIRL (2019)
LINEAGE: soundboard > unknown analogue generation > Yamaha K 540
> Soundforge 9.0 > CDWave Editor > .wav > .flac >
[REMASTER] > Nero WaveEditor (pitch corrections)* > iZotope RX 05
(De-hum, De-click, Spectral Repair & EQmatch) > Ozone 7 (Dynamic EQ,
Vintage Limiter & De-noise) > Adobe Audition (edit & track split) >
Frontend FLAC (7) > .flac
PristineSounds
(level corrections, edit & track split) > Frontend FLAC (7) > .flac
*speed correction via the "UAG audience recording" using the
"VPRO FM re-broadcast" (LDB Special Series #225) as reference
(see details below).
TRACK LISTING:
01-Gloria
02-Another Time, Another Place
03-I Threw A Brick Through A Window
04-A Day Without Me
05-An Cat Dubh/Into The Heart
06-Rejoice
07-Cry-The Electric Co.
08-I Fall Down
09-October
10-I Will Follow
11-A Celebration
12-Twilight
13-Out Of Control
[fades]
14-Fire
15-11 O'Clock Tick Tock
16-The Ocean
17-Southern Man
NB: The "Countdown Café" introduction is missing and "Gloria"
is joined in progress. "Out Of Control" has a little tape drop-out,
and "Twilight" has a cut and misses a part near the end.
#Stadtfelder NOTES (2012):
"[A]nalog[ue] soundboard recording, unknown generation
> Yamaha K 540 deck > Soundforge 9.0 > CDWave Editor > wave > flac
[...]
This soundboard recording is a nice alternative to the audience
recording. Unfortunately, there are some glitches in "Rejoice",
"I Fall Down", "October", "Twilight" and "Out Of Control".
*REMASTER NOTES
I am pretty sure this a stereo "board" tape, and not taken "off air".
But this soundboard also had an audience feed to it, matching in fact
what is known from the re-broadcasted tracks (e.g. VPRO 19??, or Radio
Veronica 2015). Listen, for instance to the end of October.
This let me to believe that this may have been "leaked" from the Dutch
radio station VOO (Veronica Omroep Organisatie) aka "Veronica" which made
the original recording for Veronica's Countdown Café back in 1982.
Some have speculated that this may be from an original broadcast, but that
would have left a typical FM-signature in the dynamic spectrum, and this
not the case. Pimm Jal de la Parra in fact only mentions a TV broadcast
(6 songs) and no radio broadcast (U2: A Concert Documentary).
What is also clear from this tape's hiss, hum, noise and drop-outs and/or
cuts that this tape was copied a few times before the digital transfer was
done. This too led me to believe that it is in fact more likely to hold that
this is from a leaked board tape, rather than a broadcast. I mean, if there
had been a radio broadcast of the full show than it is strange that no
other recordings have surfaced.
This transfer does however runs at an incorrect speed (too "fast") and
based on the comparison tracks from the two re-broadcasts, it is varying
between 0.58 and a full semitone ("I Fall Down").
There is also electrical hum present but if this is matched to 50Hz, the
tape still runs too fast (this suggests the copy being a 2nd gen, or higher).
More luck though with the also circulating audience recording (CDR > EAC >
wav > MKWact). When this hum is matched to 50HZ it gives a more or less
similar track length in comparison to the (incomplete) "VPRO FM re-broadcast"
(LDB Special Series #225). As such I could make a longer reference track to
match the soundboard feed.
I ended up treating each track individually, using some common sense to
compensate for still existing variations in the audience source.
Whenever possible, I matched directly against the "VPRO FM re-broadcast."
NB: "I Will Follow" was matched using the official released track as
reference (October "bonus" cd, 2008) but it has virtually the same length
as the VPRO re-broadcast.
Additionally to the speed correction, the hum from the soundboard was removed
with iZotope RX05 "De-hum" and while at it, I also let the De-click run to
diminish louder claps. Some "Spectral Repair" to remove unwanted sounds.
I did not put much effort in hiding the cuts that are still present.
Finally I ran it through Ozone 7 for dynamic EQ-ing, limiting and noise
treatment.
It was definitely not an "overnight" project. I worked on this off-and-on
during 2018, only to make the final mix early 2019
BIGGIRL, FEBRUARY 2019