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"Boyacrobat Matrix"

Origins: Audience microphone
Credits: boyacrobat (Audio Taper), Darren Glen (Remasterer)
Equipment: TDK SA-90 (Audio recording device)
Lineage: 2 Sources both gone from WAV to DSD > audiogate > dithered 24/96 > matrixed in 24/96 > remastered in 24/96 > mr1 dsd > archive in dsd > audiogate dsd to 24/96 & 16/44 > 16/44 to cd wave editor > track split > flac level 5
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boyacrobat melbourne lovetown matrix

tour - lovetown
venue - national tennis centre / known as rod laver arena nowdays
location - Melbourne, Australia
date - October 8, 1989
Complete Show - Yes

SOURCE: 1 - Bad At Its Best - darren glen remaster - UDG CD-R > EAC (secure) > WAV > mkwACT 0.97b1 > SHN >
back to wav by boyacrobat > dsd > audiogate 24/96 > cubase 4 for editing in 24/96

SOURCE: 2 - taper-boyacrobat - toshiba portable cassette recorder,with an external stereo clip on (t bar looking mic)
Show recorded on TDK SA-90 cassettes, new transfer from master cassette to dsd , archived in dsd >
dithered in audiogate from dsd to 24/96 > Cubase 4 wave editor > 24/96 editing

MATRIX; 3 - the two sources both gone from wav to dsd > audiogate > dithered 24/96 > matrixed in 24/96 > remastered in 24/96 >
mr1 dsd > archive in dsd > audiogate dsd to 24/96 & 16/44 > 16/44 to cd wave editor > track split > flac level 5
setlist ;

01 Hawkmoon 269
02 Desire
03 All Along The Watchtower
04 Bullet The Blue Sky
05 Running To Stand Still
06 All I Want Is You
07 Where The Streets Have No Name
08 I Will Follow --------------------------------- 00.56 sec to 1.49 sec - missing on my rec possibly due to tape flip
09 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
10 MLK
11 One Tree Hill
12 God Part II
13 Bad
14 October
15 New Year's Day 2.37 sec to 3.33 sec - missing on my rec possibly due to tape flip

16 Pride (In The Name Of Love)
17 Angel Of Harlem
18 When Love Comes To Town ----------------------- source 1 only
19 Love Rescue Me -------------------------------- source 1 only
20 With Or Without You ------------------------- source 1 only
21 "40" ----------------------------------------- source 1 only

comments

this was a project i wanted to do from long ago, lovetown melb/syd matrixes , wondering what it would be like, it had to many hurdles for me to jump
ike fluctuating bpm between the 2 sources , pitch climbing,diving quiet a bit . it was a nightmare to work with.
i could not do it, i left it for the future, pending my wav acrobatics getting good enough for me to be able to jump all hurdles involved.
time sorted me out to be able to develop the skills to put this together, quiet a little effort to merge this was.
the tuning on source 1 was to erratic to deal with on its own, chromatic tuning of source 1 only to bring it to the tuning of source 2,
source 2 is still slightly off concert pitch, but not at all as bad as source 1.

both rec run at 50/50 ratio , i eq the two sources while both playing to bring out the best of both .
merging the two was quiet fun because of the different soundscapes both offer together.
i know this show quiet well and the two together created a tone quiet pleasing to me, it also gave the rec some
reall ambience that the two on there own lacked.
this may not be for everyone but its a gold brick for me, i love it..

enjoy the matrix.

boyacrobat 20-05-2008

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"Bad At Its Best"

Origins: Audience microphone
Credits: Darren Glen (Remasterer)
Equipment: Exact Audio Copy EAC (Sound Editor), mkwACT (Sound Editor)
Lineage: UDG CD-R > EAC (secure) > WAV > mkwACT 0.97b1 > SHN > MP3@192
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Audience microphone

Origins: Audience microphone
Equipment: Exact Audio Copy EAC (Sound Editor)
Lineage: unknown gen -> EAC (secure) -> WAV -> mkwACT 0.97b1 -> SHN -> WAV -> MP3@192
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"Melbourne Memoirs Vol 2"

Origins: Audience microphone
Credits: boyacrobat (Audio Taper)

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"Lovetown Melbourne - Night Two"

Origins: Audience microphone
Lineage: first generation analog recording > CD-R

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review by CMIPalaeo

4 years ago

Performance

Strong performance. Everyone is in fine form and there don't seem to be mistakes, though Bono might fumble a little with lyrics in Running To Stand Still and One Tree Hill.

Hawkmoon 269 is a nice way to open the show, though admittedly it doesn't have the same power of the dizzying album version... Desire clips along to a very strong All Along the Watchtower. Following that with Bullet the Blue Sky is an exciting choice. Bono gets a bit incendiary in Bullet, and talks about the kind of love he believes in. There's a nearly-a-cappella snippet of All I Want Is You as a preface to Where the Streets Have No Name. MLK is short and leads to a strong One Tree Hill. God Part II is very strong. Bad is excellent, with strong snippets. A nice transition from October from New Year's Day never gets old. The B.B. King encore is, as ever, a treat. With Or Without You and "40" serve to wrap up the show in strong fashion.

Sound

Quite good but not quite great. Dodgier in some places - there's a definite step down in quality from Bullet the Blue Sky to Running To Stand Still, for example.
Recording: "Boyacrobat Matrix" - 3.5 stars

Audience

They're good, not too distracting but not too crazy either it seems.

Overall

Overall, a very good show! The sound is good and the performance is strong. An excellent Lovetown outing, perhaps not the most unique, but well worth a listen.

Highlights:
- All Along the Watchtower
- Bullet the Blue Sky
- Where the Streets Have No Name (of course!)
- God Part II
- Bad
- When Love Comes To Town with a lengthy snippet of In the Midnight Hour
- "40"

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1989-10-08 - Melbourne, Australia - National Tennis Centre

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