Nine Inch Nails
The Academy, New York, NY, USA
1991-01-24
"Sin" Tour

Incomplete audience recording
Lineage: unknown taper and equipment -> unknown generation TDK HS High Standard T-120HSN VHS -> Philips VR 1000 S-VHS PAL VCR (JVC rebrand) -> Monoprice heavy-duty RCA to 3.5mm cable -> ASUS Xonar DX sound card -> captured as 32/96 in Adobe Audition CC 2015 -> automatic phase correction (most accurate settings), normalized to -0.1dB and any DC bias removed -> WAV (32/96) -> tracked using Audacity 2.1.0 -> WAV (32/96) tracks -> FLAC 16-bit 44.1khz using FLAC 1.3.1 64-bit (level 8 compression) and foobar2000 v1.3.8 with its Resampler (SoX) component v0.8.3 (best quality), dithering enabled
Generation: unknown
Transfer: ligushka (https://www.depechemode-live.com)
VHS photos and auCDtectTaskManager log included

Notes: A good sounding audience recording, especially considering it's from a video source, and an unknown gen one to boot. It's a little echoey sounding and has some slight distortion, but nothing major. The recording is basically mono, again nothing unexpected given it's a camera source. It's definitely a listenable and enjoyable recording overall.

"Terrible Lie" is missing a bit of the beginning (but there is more of it than the existing copy), "Suck" is missing some audio for some reason (the existing copy has the same flaw - must be on the master tape), and "Head Like A Hole" is missing some of the outro (again, just like the existing copy), but otherwise this seems to be a complete recording.

Compared to the existing available copy with unknown lineage (also from video source), this recording has way better frequency response and doesn't have insanely destructive noise reduction applied to it. I used a high end VCR to capture the audio. I'd capture the video too, but my external time base corrector doesn't like the NTSC signal output from my PAL VCR (which does play NTSC without a problem otherwise) and strips the color from the signal, so I need to wait until I buy an actual NTSC S-VHS VCR before I can properly transfer the video. Until then, enjoy this audio!

This recording is considered Source 1 on the "Reflecting In The Chrome" Nine Inch Nails live recording archive: http://ninlive.com/shows/1991/19910124.html

Track list:

01. [5:00] Terrible Lie
02. [4:45] Sin
03. [6:17] Something I Can Never Have
04. [5:59] Sanctified
05. [4:35] That's What I Get
06. [3:38] Suck
07. [5:05] The Only Time
08. [3:38] Get Down, Make Love
09. [5:59] Ringfinger
10. [4:31] Down In It
11. [6:58] Head Like A Hole
Total time: 56:24