stark 13.03.2011 09:41 |
Hi Folks, **As always, I have restored/remastered this FOR MY OWN USE. I hope the community sees it as enough of an upgrade to want it, but if you don't like it, please don't download it.** Firstly, this recording has been crushed by compression (see 'BEFORE' picture), and it's impossible to undo. However, by correcting the equalisation I have minimised the effect and significantly increased the peak-to-average ratio (dynamic range) - see 'AFTER' picture. Secondly, each track has been individually normalised by Tarantura, resulting in, for example, Love Of My Life being the same volume as Sheer Heart Attack. This normalisation also causes the raising of background noise (i.e. tape hiss and crowd noise) on quieter tracks, so I have manually matched the transitions between tracks so the volume no longer jumps when a new song starts. As for the sound, the bulk of the equalisation was done with Har-Bal. I then applied high- and low-pass filters (essentially sophisticated bass and treble controls) with a Waves VEQ4 equaliser and brought it back up to level (-0.2dB) with a Waves L3 limiter in Wavelab. I have re-tracked the songs so there now less tracks, corrected the balance between left and right channels and applied new fades to disc beginnings and ends. NO new compression was applied. And...no denoisers! Please note that if you are directly comparing this version with the original, it will sound quieter. If anyone wants more info on the remastering, please contact me and I'd be delighted to bore you with it. Lastly, I'm aware that this is far from perfect. It is, however, about as good as it's going to get until Tarantura decide to share their unprocessed masters. Artist : Queen Title : THE MIRACLE GAME Date : Monday February 16th 1981 Venue : Nippon Budokan Tokyo Japan Lineage : Tarantura (TCQD-2-1,2) silver > EAC (WAVE) > FLAC (Level 8) > wav > harbal > wavelab > flac (level 8) Disc 1 01. Jailhouse Rock 02. We Will Rock You 03. Let Me Entertain You 04. Play The Game 05. Mustapha 06. Death On Two Legs 07. Killer Queen 08. I'm In Love With My Car 09. Get Down Make Love 10. Rock It (Prime Jive) 11. Save Me 12. Now I'm Here 13. Dragon Attack 14. Now I'm Here (Reprise) 15. Love Of My Life Disc 2 01. Keep Yourself Alive 02. In The Death Cell 03. Execution Of Flash 04. Vultan's Theme 05. Battle Theme 06. Flash's Theme 07. The Hero 08. Crazy Little Thing Called Love 09. Bohemian Rhapsody 10. Tie Your Mother Down 11. Another One Bites The Dust 12. Sheer Heart Attack 13. We Will Rock You 14. We Are The Champions 15. God Save The Queen 16. Announcement |
stark 13.03.2011 09:49 |
Here's a little taster, hopefully raising a smile in the process. Original first, then the restoration. link |
GuitarMay 13.03.2011 10:06 |
Thank you 'Stark, for all your effort in making a better sound quality in overall, providing more pleasure in listening to this amazing show !!! :-) |
stark 13.03.2011 10:07 |
GuitarMay wrote: Thank you 'Stark, for all your effort in making a better sound quality in overall, providing more pleasure in listening to this amazing show !!! :-) Absolutely welcome! The best part is that listening to this doesn't give you a headache anymore! |
pittrek 13.03.2011 10:09 |
I always liked your work, so I'm curious how will this sound :-) Thanks |
stark 13.03.2011 10:14 |
pittrek wrote: I always liked your work, so I'm curious how will this sound :-) Thanks What a nice thing to say, thanks Pittrek. Please don't forget I'm always interested to know your thoughts. I'm working on the other 4 recent Tarantura releases now, so knowing what you think is always helpful. |
stark 13.03.2011 11:12 |
Another snippet to help hear the difference. Volumes are matched between the two sources, even though it doesn't really sound like it. Original first, then remaster. Switches between sources are at 7 seconds, 11 seconds, 15 seconds, 20 seconds, 31 seconds, 35 seconds and 39 seconds. Let me know if this stuff is helpful or not - I'm just trying to give the best idea of how the new version sounds compared to the original. If the attachment doesn't work, use this link link |
Pim Derks 13.03.2011 11:27 |
Thanks for sharing this & taking the time to do the restoration and stuff :) |
bokkepoot 13.03.2011 12:20 |
Thanks for this share and upgrade !! I add this one to downoadsection on queenconcerts.com |
itslate98 13.03.2011 13:14 |
Thanks for sharing your version. |
TimBHM 13.03.2011 13:29 |
Super - can't wait to give this a listen as I've enjoyed all your remasters so far. Thanks! |
MarkRW 13.03.2011 14:59 |
Thank you. |
kohuept 13.03.2011 17:03 |
Thank you! |
sithmaster34 14.03.2011 00:57 |
Thanks for sharing, this is superb! |
eYe 14.03.2011 01:30 |
Thank you very much, it's very enjoyable now! |
deleted user 14.03.2011 08:19 |
thanx for this work, Stark |
The Real Wizard 14.03.2011 10:48 |
stark wrote: If anyone wants more info on the remastering, please contact me and I'd be delighted to bore you with it. ============ Haha... a damn good bore it was. Thanks Stark for doing your wondrous work once again. The sound is infinitely more natural and well-balanced now. Looking forward to the other Taranturas if this is how they're going to sound ! |
pittrek 14.03.2011 11:06 |
OK I'm listening to it right now and it sounds great, thanks a lot. But a small tip for the future - please don't call your files "1" but "01" - or in other words , be sure that the track number has 2 characters. The reason for it is that many people (e.g. me) listen to it on their computer using WinAmp, and WinAmp is so dumb that it plays after track "1" track "10" . I"ve been wondering why they played Prime Jive after Jailhouse Rock :-) |
Stephane15 14.03.2011 12:46 |
Thanks fro sharing. But I'm unable to decode the flac files, is it with XLD or xACT (never had any problem before). Any idea why ? |
The Real Wizard 14.03.2011 13:03 |
Stephane15 wrote: But I'm unable to decode the flac files, is it with XLD or xACT (never had any problem before). Any idea why ? =============== No idea, but it worked fine for me with FLAC Frontend. |
vivaqueen 14.03.2011 13:26 |
MERCI BEAUCOUP |
Vali 14.03.2011 17:22 |
It sounds amazing, many thanks for sharing your job, Stark ! |
Farrokh The Great 15.03.2011 00:33 |
Hey man, this is really a good work!!! This isn't a upgrade, is a total change!!! More natural sound its THE KEY !!!!! Everyone here should to put samples as You did Thank You SO MUCH!!! I'll stay tuned for your next fixes......... |
Harry_queenrecordings 15.03.2011 11:44 |
Good work Stark! Many thanks for sharing your remaster. |
Gregsynth 15.03.2011 15:08 |
Damn. This is a great remaster. Thank you! Make sure you download this! It's worth the wait! |
GtKngRat 15.03.2011 16:42 |
Thank you ! |
Alejandro Siepe 15.03.2011 21:17 |
Hi there, first of all a big big thank you to Stark who has made this possible for all of us!, by the way dear Stark, could you make this process again but with the 'Teo Torriatte' bootleg from the following night (17/02)?, thanks in advance, great great job indeed!!! |
zephead2112 16.03.2011 03:53 |
Many thanks for all your hard work Stark, downloading now! |
Tim June 16.03.2011 09:02 |
Thank you very much for this remaster! |
GeneCher 16.03.2011 14:35 |
Good work! Thank You!! |
Aleks 17.03.2011 05:59 |
The sound is great. Freddie's voice sounds amazing. One of my favorite shows. Many thanks!!!! |
Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon 17.03.2011 14:59 |
Thank you very much!! |
stark 18.03.2011 06:47 |
Thanks to everyone who left comments on this - glad to know people enjoyed it. Couple of things: - Pittrek, track numbering duly noted. I'll correct this in future. - Alejandro, I'm working on getting the remaining four recent Tarantura releases up as soon as possible. It takes time though, so bear with me. Should be something up in the next week or so. |
RadekQ 02.04.2011 12:19 |
Excellent work! Thank you very much! |
thefallenqueen 16.06.2011 15:28 |
Another fantastic re-master, thanks a lot for your great work, it's just amazing... are there some remasters of the radio broadcast versions of the South American tour dates out there, though these are already great recordings yet? |
thefallenqueen 16.06.2011 15:43 |
What a nice thing to say, thanks Pittrek. Please don't forget I'm always interested to know your thoughts. I'm working on the other 4 recent Tarantura releases now, so knowing what you think is always helpful. Let me say it's a great pleasure to listen to your remastered work - wish I'd have the knowledge to do things like this. Did you finish the other Tarantula releases in the meantime? I'd be pleased to know if you already "re-released" it! |
Fortepan 24.09.2012 22:24 |
Thank you very much! |
pcgenius9 25.09.2012 15:57 |
On recommendation, I have joined over here, hopefully it can complete :D |
leoslayer 08.09.2015 09:14 |
please can i get a seed here? thanks guys |
bootLuca 08.09.2015 13:28 |
from Bokke's 'wonderful' database link link |
rhapsody8 11.04.2016 02:27 |
How I missed this one? Amazing quality. Thanks a lot.... |
roberto2 06.10.2019 07:18 |
Could someone please re-upload this show on mega? Thanks in advance |
misabeat 06.10.2019 08:35 |
Here you go..... link |
Harry1991 17.01.2020 02:39 |
Hello would anyone please re upload this? thank you |
jakelic 17.01.2020 13:44 |
This is what I have: flac from silvers - link stark remaster - link mp3 from flac - link Links are valid for 7 days. If you miss them, ask again. Thanks to the original uploaders! cheers |
Harry1991 17.01.2020 17:42 |
@jakelic Thank you so much for all the links. |