the_who1969-xx-xx-vol3.flac16

The Who
1969-xx-xx
Venue: Unknown
Location: Unknown

01 Bill Graham Introduction
02 Heaven and Hell
03 I Can't Explain
04 Fortune Teller
05 Pete Dialogue #1
06 Young Man Blues
07 Pete Dialogue #2
08 Overture
09 It's a Boy
10 1921
11 Amazing Journey (cuts within)
12 Sparks
13 Eyesight to the Blind
14 Christmas (fragment only, cuts off)
15 See Me, Feel Me (fragment only, cuts in)
16 Summertime Blues
17 Shakin' All Over
18 My Generation (7 min, cuts off)

Sources: Multitrack Soundboard Recordings ->
(Rough) Mixdown -> R2R -> ? -> Silver Pressed Bootlegs
-> EAC -> Wavemerge 2.1 -> Adobe Audition 1.5 (Speed Correcting,
Editing, Manual Level Correction) -> Cubase SX3.0 (using
UAD Pultec EQ + Precision EQ/MB/LIM) -> CdWave -> FLAC (L6)

Channels were swapped in the correct order with Pete's guitar
on the right.
I extensively compared two different sources of Tracks 8-13,
namely the 'Accept No Substitute' and '1969: Wintertime Trip'
CD bootlegs.
My first impression was that the latter contained a
better sounding source.
But when I speed corrected & mastered both sources and
A->B 'ed them, the ANS boot was the clear winner.
WT may have come from a lower generation tape source,
but it has been permanently damaged with digital
Noise Reduction and wrong EQ-ing.
Its hi-end sounded terrible compared to the ANS source,
which seems to be a flat & untempered A->D transfer.
On top of that, the WT source has also been cut down
shorter than the ANS portion.
It's not a perfect source, but clearly the best we have
heard so far.
Track 18 is taken from a tape source of unknown generation,
and does not seem to have been bootlegged yet.
The soundquality is obviously less good than that of the rest,
but at least it is in real stereo.
I gave it a slight speed correction with -0.09 semitones.
*** About The Mastering
I attempted to get a 'natural' sounding remaster.
Not the kind that makes your ears bleed, nor that
kind that sounds heavily processed.
I never use Noise Reduction. Hate it.
Fortunately, the main source used here is free from
digital Noise Reduction, though possible an
analog form of NR may or may not have been applied.
But there's obvious tape hiss, and the ambiance
of the recording sounds natural.
I did some careful EQ-ing with the Pultec & the Precision.
I gave the whole thing a careful treatment with 5-band
multiband compression.
To gave the sound more depth and take away some of the
harshness of the guitar cymbals and vocal sound,
but without losing clarity in the hi-mid & hi-end.
I used three different mastering settings for the whole compilation,
to make the overall sound as good and similair as possible.
Then I used the Precision Limiter for some more volume,
but -again- very carefully.
A frequency analyses proved this to be lossless.
Enjoy Y'all !!
ps: Here are my other WHO torrents:
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=73688
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=101865
pps: I like getting comments, y'know.