| goa 06.07.2009 15:23 |
Queen 1978-12-14 Pacific Coliseum Vancouver (AUD 1st generation) FIX I dl this show from the super-mega-torrent of Best of the Best of pittrek. btw, the mega torrent was not uploaded by pittrek. Well, for this show there was some problems, that I detailed below. I tried to fix them. There is nothing new here, but perhaps for newbies like me, maybe is a good option from where to get this magnificet tape. THANKS to all the good people at Queenzone...a site that I found this year and that have given me a lot of happines. *********************** Queen Live in Vancouver, B.C. December 14, 1978 Pacific Coliseum 1gen Analog ReMaster to digital Originally recorded by Fred W. from right up front and center Tape to tape copy and mastering by Audioarchivist U - 101 Lineage: Queen > PA & stage monitor sound > air and audience > Fred's mics and rig (unsure - Marantz?) > Maxell UD90 tapes > vintage Akai replay deck (azimuth adjusted, no Dolby) > Sentrek 12 band analog EQ (minor low and high boost) > Denon DRM500 recording deck (Dolby on for recording) to make my tape copy > Maxell XL II 90 > played back on same Denon DRM500 (azimuth re-adjusted, no Dolby) > Sentrek 12 band analog EQ (more lows and highs, shaping upper bass/lower mids) > SoundBlaster live! 5.1 card (grounded and tweaked) > Wavelab 4.0(track markers only, no digital processing at all) > FLAC > WAV > re-editing in Cool Edit Pro > Trader's Little Helper > FLAC Original Notes: When I originally copied this from Fred's collection for myself on cassette, I was amazed how clear this recording was and how close Fred sounded to the stage. I almost always performed EQ surgery on any copies I made to try and smooth everything out, and this was no exception. This tape, like many recordings Fred did thru the years, was pretty close to perfect already and didn't need much work to make it sound like you were actually there, however, the lowest tones of bass and kick drum were a little thin, and upper bass/lower vocal range was a little jumpy. Well that's all fixed now. There is some noise associated with the original tapes (normal bias "low noise" tapes!) but that should not discourage you at all. My copy sounded more pleasing than the originals did, and even more refined when played into the computer for you now. I have chosen to not process the noise out, and leave a little bit of the shit and corruption in. I think the background noise gives this tape life and breath, and removing it would kill the atmosphere it brings. You will get used to it after 5 minutes, and it's not noticeable at all over the music. I have tracked this for CD in the way it was on the master tapes, leaving all sides uncut. Side A is disc 1 (38:39), while sides B and C fit on disc 2 (77:27). I have included scans of my color photocopies of Fred's original master tape covers for you, and a copy of the cover of the 1978 tour book. I have no real artworx for this NEW MASTERPIECE, so if you make some, please post them at TTD in the thread for this bootleg, and also please email me jpegs of your results. Feel free to make audio CDR's of this for your friends and family, but if any of them might trade further, please provide them with a copy of the FLAC files. Don't rip from the audio CDR copies you make, EVER! There is no need to pee in the trading pool. Backup your FLAC files, you'll need them later! If you can avoid it, don't EnCrap to MP3 files, either. MP3 sounds like crud anyway, and this dynamic recording will suffer greatly in lossy formats. If I find out you spread around an MP3 version of this, I'll come to your house and do bad things to you and yours... like farting in your fridge! So, just don't make into lossy files, please! That goes for you, too AAC and OGG! My comments : The original flac files were very badly edited, for example Killer Queen & Bicycle Race were in one file, and Brighton Rock was split into 4 different files. I have re-edited it correctly and share it with you here. Also some songs had wrong titles. They are also changed. Track listings: Disc 1 (38:39) 01. We Will Rock You (fast version) 02. Let Me Entertain You 03. Somebody To Love 04. If You Can't Beat Them 05. Death On Two Legs > (medley start) 06. Killer Queen > 07. Bicycle Race > 08. I'm In Love With My Car (medley end) 09. Get Down Make Love 10. You're My Best Friend tape flip Disc 2 (77:27) 01. Now I'm Here 02. Spread Your Wings 03. Dreamer's Ball 04. Love Of My Life 05. '39 06. It's Late 07. Brighton Rock > tape flip 08. Fat Bottomed Girls 09. Keep Yourself Alive 10. Bohemian Rhapsody 11. Tie Your Mother Down 1st encore (tape edit) 12. Sheer Heart Attack 2nd encore (tape edit) 13. We Will Rock You > 14. We Are The Champions 15. God Save The Queen Hopefully I've gotten all the song titles right. (No, you didn't :-) ) If I've made mistakes, it's only proof that I'm human. Feel free to post any corrections or additions... Thanks for listening, hope you enjoy it! audioarchivist@hotmail.com ******************** This recording was uploaded at The Traders' Den by Audioarchivist on January 2007. I asked pittrek of Queenzone if he uploaded it there and he was unsure. Probably he was, and he did what says in "My comments" about re-edit some tracks. When I downloaded from Queenzone, it has repeated tracks, wrong order, some tracks had wrong names and the checksums didn't work fine. Maybe this happened when the show was included in a mega torrent. What was done: - Fixed the names - Leave only one track for each song - Fixed the order of the songs - Added tags - ffp, md5 and st5 - aucdtect - fixed artwork - gathered other alternative artwork - included the info found at TTD and QZ Special thanks to Novak who fixed and created the artwork (and to whoever made its first version). Thanks to Fred W., audioarchivist & pittrek. goa July 2009 ************************** folder (you can save all the files to your mediafire account with just one click and dl later) http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=fdb10493f5fbd996d6baebe61b361f7cdb44ef03f22b8f40ce018c8114394287 links: 1 link 2 link 3 link 4 link 5 link 6 link 7 link 8 link 9 link 10 link |
| aristide1 06.07.2009 17:01 |
What was wrong with tracks order ? |
| goa 06.07.2009 18:26 |
what was wrong was Best of the Best of pittrek mega torrent. I put all the details in the announce!!! If you dl it form: TTD or from pittrek own 1978 theread, I suppose you would not have the problems. anyway, if you dl this, you will get - Fixed the names - Leave only one track for each song - Fixed the order of the songs - Added tags - ffp, md5 and st5 - aucdtect - fixed artwork - gathered other alternative artwork - included the info found at TTD and QZ |
| Ale Solan 06.07.2009 19:24 |
I cannot download this for the moment... can you explain the "new" track order? Thanks in advance. btw, I've made the first version of the artwork |
| goa 06.07.2009 21:40 |
well, please dear buddies. Read the announce. what were BAD are all the things I mentioned, IF and ONLY IF you dl it from the mega-torrent pittrek's Best of the Best...and I think all you know he didn't upload it. Surely, by mistake, the uploader, for that particular gig included a weird mix of both set of files of Audioarchivist version and of pittrek's re-edit of it. Ergo, if you dl this, what you will get is nothing more nor nothing less what I posted. :lol: I thought this would be easier. Anyway, I love QZ and its members. |
| Ale Solan 06.07.2009 23:32 |
goa wrote: well, please dear buddies. Read the announce. what were BAD are all the things I mentioned, IF and ONLY IF you dl it from the mega-torrent pittrek's Best of the Best...and I think all you know he didn't upload it. Surely, by mistake, the uploader, for that particular gig included a weird mix of both set of files of Audioarchivist version and of pittrek's re-edit of it. Ergo, if you dl this, what you will get is nothing more nor nothing less what I posted. :lol: I thought this would be easier. Anyway, I love QZ and its members. All cleared up. I got the correct version: TTD's. Thanks. |
| Queenrockyou 26.07.2009 10:55 |
The version is currently being uploaded again, please be patient (one more day !). Regards, Olivier, Belgium. |
| goa 26.07.2009 12:12 |
Alex Solan. wrote:goa wrote: well, please dear buddies. Read the announce. what were BAD are all the things I mentioned, IF and ONLY IF you dl it from the mega-torrent pittrek's Best of the Best...and I think all you know he didn't upload it. Surely, by mistake, the uploader, for that particular gig included a weird mix of both set of files of Audioarchivist version and of pittrek's re-edit of it. Ergo, if you dl this, what you will get is nothing more nor nothing less what I posted. :lol: I thought this would be easier. Anyway, I love QZ and its members.All cleared up. I got the correct version: TTD's. Thanks. I have to add the torrent at TTD, at least the original one, has some isues that pittrek corrected. (My comments : The original flac files were very badly edited, for example Killer Queen & Bicycle Race were in one file, and Brighton Rock was split into 4 different files. I have re-edited it correctly and share it with you here. Also some songs had wrong titles. They are also changed.) Please read the compleate announce I made!!! |
| pittrek 26.07.2009 15:09 |
This version is still online so for al the people who still don't have it - get this version ! |
| deleted user 26.07.2009 16:45 |
pittrek wrote: This version is still online so for al the people who still don't have it - get this version ! What version? Link please |
| goa 26.07.2009 22:36 |
I only couladd that before I upload THIS, I PMed with pittrek several times. anyway, this is a great tape, no matter the upload. |
| The Real Wizard 01.08.2009 16:26 |
aristide1 wrote: What was wrong with tracks order ? Two tracks from the medley were merged together as one. |
| tcc 06.08.2009 09:56 |