Soundgarden: Vancouver 2011 (VG+ Aud) FLAC

July 29, 2011
Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Rogers Arena

Source "A" : SanDisk Sansa Fuze 8gb running RockBox 3.9
16 bit 44.1 khz "lossless" mono master recording
Recorded, Enhanced, Sweetened, and ReMastered by Audioarchivist

01 Searching With My Good Eye Closed
02 Spoonman
03 Gun
04 Jesus Christ Pose
05 Blow Up the Outside World
06 The Day I Tried To Live
07 My Wave
08 Burden In My Hand
09 Ugly Truth
10 Fell On Black Days
11 Loud Love
12 none of you could be so stupid
13 Drawing Flies
14 Black Hole Sun
15 we don't need to drive anywhere
16 Outshined
17 Rusty Cage
18 Superunknown
19 4th Of July
20 encore echo - band introductions
21 Beyond The Wheel
22 Mailman
23 Slaves & Bulldozers
24 big finish

Lineage: SanDisk Sansa Fuze "mp3 player" running the RockBox 3.9 firmware recording from the built-in mono microphone > master dual mono "stereo" files @ 16/44.1 > Wavelab 5.01b (master DC offset correction; toolsone - level boost and balance; Waves Q10 Paragraphic EQ - mid to high boost and ultra high cut; Waves TrueVerb - custom room model reverb for stereo field simulation and smoothing; Peak Master - limit to -0.03db; track splits and names) > Trader's Little Helper (FLAC8 and torrent) > YOU!!!

Notes: This must be one of the top 5 loudest shows I've ever been to! I'd also have to say it's one of the top ten best sounding shows I've ever attended. I find it hard to believe that I can say these two things about the same show, but I was very impressed with how "loud and clear" this show really was, for the most part. There were several times that I thought Kim's lead guitar should have been about 3 times louder in the mix than it was. Maybe if everything else was turned down a notch it all would have balanced better, but it wouldn't have been a real Soundgarden concert without a large dose of hearing damage for all the concert goers!
This recording is the first of three that I will be releasing. I recorded the whole show from three completely different recorders and mics. I also used with a Zoom H2 with my Sony ECM DS-70P mic, and a Zoom H1 with a Sony ECM-907 mic. I ran this third cheezy little recorder "for fun" as a backup to the backup of the main recorder. It came out sort of alright, so I worked on it a bit to put it out first. For fun. The other two will come out soon, and, yes, of course they're much better than this one. I was just thinking that if this was all there was and I didn't have my good recorders working that it wouldn't be too bad. So, I thought I shouldn't just ignore this lo-fi version because even though it isn't exactly "great" it isn't that bad at all, and if I put the good ones out first this one would totally get ignored... This version comes from my "anything but an iPod" mp3 player that I bought from London Drugs for about $50 plus tax. It recorded a 16 bit 44.1 khz wav stereo file, but the single point mono voice recorder microphone clearly makes it a mono master recording. The Sansa Fuze by SanDisk isn't really made for recording much more than, well, I don't really know. Meetings? Lectures? Notes? I wouldn't normally say that it is for live music recording (unless it comes off the radio!)... I mean, it usually just doesn't cut it for heavy duty recording, but the RockBox operating system makes it seem like it's a better machine! Once I got the RockBox firmware on it I felt like I had a cool player. Drag and drop FLAC files, has a micro SDHC card slot to expand to 32gb, its a sweet little player! Still, it is a pretty lo-fi recorder, giving the recordings from it a vintage 70's dictaphone tape quality! hehe. I think that the great concert sound they had at the show comes through in this recording! So, don't ignore this crappy little recording! haha.
As far as what I did to this recording, after correcting the DC offset I EQ'd up the upper mids and lower highs, and sharply rolled off the extreme highs. There was interference in the very upper highs from internal data passing through the machine - a high squeaking pulsing that had to go away! Then I ran it trough some custom reverb to simulate a stereo field and I think it more or less matches the delay times that GM Place - I mean Rogers Arena actually has. I think that except for a few unnatural sounding loud localized claps between a few songs (I think it's me clapping! haha) the stereo picture is amazingly normal and real for an arena concert tape. It kind of feels like the simulated arena stereo reverberating reflected sounds from the sides aren't simulated at all... So, a lossless mono master stereo simulated remaster is what we have here. I think that its amazingly good for how kind of cruddy it really started out!
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