Tracy Chapman
Live From The Philharmonie
Cologne, Germany
May 15, 2000
Lineage: AUD > ? > CD(x) > EAC > Protools 6.4 > Pre Mastering > Bounce using busses > Mastering > Bounce out > WAV > FLAC (with SBE correction)
CD1 Tracklist:
01. Intro
02. Nothing Yet
03. Baby Can I Hold You
04. Less Than Strangers
05. For My Lover
06. Speak The Word
07. Across The Lines
08. Unsung Psalm
09. Behind The Wall
10. The Promise
11. Paper And Ink
12. Fast Car
13. Wedding Song
CD2 Tracklist:
01. She's Got Her Ticket
02. It's Ok
03. New Beginning
04. Talkin' Bout A Revolution
05. Telling Stories
06. Give Me One Reason
07. Get Up Stand Up
At time of mastering, this bootleg was relatively uncirulated. Thanks to M. Rex for sending me this bootleg & artwork! He recieved this from a trader in France, and any other relevant lineage information has been lost. It arrived as a fairly reasonable sounding, but quiet bootleg, with a very noisy audience. Its only other shortcomings where minor clipping and hard limiting in loud sections (presumably from the recording device (Minidisc?)), occasional microphone bumps, and slightly left heavy stereo image.
In terms of DSP work, I've tried to compensate for the over zealous audience, even out the gain, raise the overall levels abit (without over compressing), and centre the stereo image. Find a detailed account of what i did below. In retrospect, I probably wont use such complex methods again to adjust crowd noise in the future, but it was still a fascinating method at at solving a common problem. :)
This is the complete concert, no fades between tracks have been applied, for nice DAO continuity.
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DSP DETAILS
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Pre Mastering: (realtime)
- delayed, 3 band freq. triggered, automated sine controlled hard compression on audience noise
- additional automated limiting on clapping during some songs
- gain increase compensating for gain decrease in track 04 (around 1m16s) till end
- bounced in 3 parts - tracks 01-06 (electric), 07-13 (acoustic), 14- (electric)
Mastering: (realtime)
- +3db gain increase for 2nd part (acoustic)
- +12db gain increase when Tracy is talking to audience
- EQ: +6db compensation for mic response at each end
removal of some room resonance (770Hz@-3db)
+3db boost to low mids to bring up non-existant bass guitar abit
- Compression: @ -6db, ratio 1.5:1
- Multiband compression (5 bands): xovers 92Hz, 545Hz, 3970Hz, 10750Hz
thresholds 0db,-16db,-10db,-19db,-18db
gain 8db,6db,4db,6db,5db range -6db
output gain -2db
- Stereo image correction (moved Vocals from slightly left to centre)
- Limiting on audience noise in intro (-6db --> -0.5db)
- (master fader) Limiting (-3.5db --> -0.5db)
- (master fader) POWr 16bit Dither, NS2
For those that care, here is the signal flow for the 3 band, sine controlled audience noise compressor:
High Notch (17.5-20k) (targetting clapping transients)
Low Notch (2.5k) (targetting audience wash)
Scream Notch (1.15k) (targetting screaming)
Original Signal ---> delay (400ms) ---> hard compression (1:1.5 @-60dB, 100ms
| | attack, 800ms release)
| (keyed)
High ---> gated sine (@-25dB) |
\ |
Low -----> gated sine (@-8dB) --+--> gated sine (@-90dB) (compression control)
/
Scream ---> gated sine (@-6.5dB)