Here is the bonus for you, to make up for that silent footage of the obscure band. I had posted this one a couple years back, but I had access to one of the nicest Beta VCRs available, so I did a proper re-transfer. No more annoying horizontal white lines!
Recorded by: Russ Gibb and crew
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony SL-2100, Datavideo TBC-1000, Tevion adapter- Virtualdub
Man, I love it when these enhancements turn out nice. Here is an old MTX show from 1988, brightened/increased exposure and denoised. I also have a 1st gen soundboard tape, right off of Radley’s hifi VHS master that could be synched with this- does anyone want to help?
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment Used: Awia CV80 w/Stock Mic
Enhanced: brightened/increased exposure and denoised w/Adobe Premiere +Neat Video.
Ugh, I just realized that I forgot to trim a couple of MTX songs off the front of this. Sorry. Fwd to 4min or so to get to soulside.
As I was digging through Anonymous’ cassettes for those Flaming Lips shows, this one caught my eye. We were both friends with Radley Hirsch, the original Gilman sound engineer and Jason got a bunch of soundboard recordings from him, usually right off of his VHS HiFi master.
This mix was a “hard” mix, meaning that guitar was in one channel and bass/drums/vocals were in the other. I remixed it to boost the bass/vocal track a bit and then did a reverse pan to make it sound a little more normal. Hope you like it.
Also, if anyone is feeling industrious, I videotaped this show from the stage and the video soundtrack sounds pretty bad. If anyone wants to synch the 2 sources, I would be happy to send them over. Synching 2 analog sources can be a huge pain in the ass.
Recorded by: Radley Hirsch
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon/Audiophile 2496 card
From Anonymous’ collection.
Here is a massive upgrade of the Soulside show I taped back in 1988. I did a fresh transfer of the video and then brightened it up and reduced the snow/grain. I also took the 1st gen soundboard tape (thanks Radley Hirsch) and enhanced it as well, with King Bean performing the audio video synch. It turned out great.
PLEASE forward to at least 2 minutes so you can check it out with soundboard audio. The 1st 2min are crappy audience audio. The board tape really gets good about 10-15min in
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment Used: Aiwa CV-80 and stock mic
Audio recorded by: Radley Hirsch
Transfer by Shayne with Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Enhancements in Izotope RX7 (Audio) and Premiere Elements/Neat Video (Video)
This is one of the rare early gilman videos that was somewhat well-lit, plus we had a decent quality soundboard recording to synch with it. We tried to synch this twice and did not have any luck- it would fall out of alignment as audio sources tend to do. But Kingbean was finally able to make it work.
I need to apologize to Dr. Frank- he has been posting some of these songs to his “Song for Odin” series, but they were with the inferior audio from the camera.
PS: I love this era of MTX, probably my favorite.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Aiwa CV-80
Soundboard courtesy of Radley Hirsch, mastered onto Hifi VHS at the club, copied onto hi bias cassette for “Anonymous”
Transfer via Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Audio Enhanced via Izotope RX7, Video Enhanced via Adobe Premier Elements and Neat Video
Here is one of the few 1980s venues that is still active now- AVM/Miner’s Foundry. The place was serving beer and they accepted my lame fake ID (I was about 3 weeks from my 21st birthday) so I had a few too many… hence the less than stellar camera work. Thanks to Jason for driving me and Tony home (after I threw the keys overhand at him and yelled “DRIVE!”. I am a better friend now).
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
I traded with this guy in Houston, and he was quite a character. I think his name is Mike Elias (Alias?), but my memory is fuzzy. He used to blatantly film bands without permission- and if he got shut down, he would write me “those guys are essholes”(his exact er, words). He definitely had a unique approach. 🙂 If anyone knows where he is now, please let me know. I lost a master tape and he is the only guy who I know, who has a 1st gen copy of something I really want back.
Anyway, I did not trade for this one- my good friend Jim Utz did, and this is from his collection.
Recorded by: Mike Elias(?)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HRS9911U and Canopus ADVC300
I pulled this one for today’s On This Date in History. I think I might have received it from Pat Thomas, back when we were working on booking Barbara’s 2001 US tour- first and only tour I ever booked!
This recording was mastered at pretty low volume and the crowd in between songs was very loud. I did my best to normalize it in pieces.
Recorded by: Pat Thomas
CD extract and normalize by Shayne
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