This one comes from Wayne Vanderkuil’s collection. Wayne deserves a big thanks for keeping all of his tapes throughout the years.

I have mentioned this before, but I’ll say it again. I got started in the tape trading hobby back in 1986 or 1987 and I got a big boost when Mark Martin let me buy his live tape collection at that time, for the price of the blank tapes. He did keep some of his master recordings, which is why some legendary Sacramento shows have not made their way onto the archive yet. This was one of those shows- I did not have a copy and Mark didn’t have it anymore either. In comes Wayne (hero music plays).

All that being said, this tape doesn’t sound great. A lot of tapes recorded with that Panasonic consumer deck had this blurry sounding rumbling low end. I did learn today that most of that bad stuff is at the 56hz band of the EQ, so I can start pulling that out completely (like I did here) to make them listenable. Cool.

Recorded by: Mark Martin
Transfer by: Shayne stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Soundforge 10