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Throwing Muses- Berkeley Square, Berkeley Ca. 3/28/89 xfer from master audiotape

Here’s an upload for a friend of Corbett’s- John Kelly.
So let me talk about the taper- Anonymous. He is my best friend and we have been friends for over 30 years. We met at the legendary exploited/DRI/Dr. Know/Dag Nasty show. Back in the 80s, he was not only working to get the best quality audio recordings (he bought his Sony D6 first, then I HAD to have one), but he went to a lot of really cool shows that I blew off. This is one of them. Looking at his tapes, I see recordings by The Lemonheads(I didn’t go), Swans(Went), and more from Berkeley Square. Thanks to anonymous!

Recorded by: Anonymous
Equipment used: Aiwa consumer recorder & Sony ECM909 Mic
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment: Nakamichi Dragon/M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card/boost highs & lows, drop mids in sony soundforge.

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Dinosaur Jr.- Blue Note, Columbia Mo 3/27/89 Transfer from 1st or 2nd gen soundboard tape J mascis

Today should be Mick Martin Memorial day, but I am bumping that to tomorrow since Dinosaur Jr. is playing Ace of Spades tonight. NEW COLLECTION alert- this is the 3rd of 3 collections that I picked up on the midwest trip a couple weeks back. This comes from my old friend Jim Utz’ cassette collection. We have been friends for 40 years now- we got to know each other from tape trading in 1986 and still chat regularly 40 years later. I can’t think of anyone outside of family that I have been close friends with for so long.

Anyway, Jim has an amazing collection and this is just a tiny part of it- I grabbed some cassettes and videotapes but he has so much more. I hope he starts to share his DAT masters from the St. Louis area in the near future.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in izotope Rx8: Guitar +3

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Thin White Rope- I Beam, San Francisco Ca. 3/20/89 Enhanced xfer from Master VHS Tape

Again, HUGE thanks to Paul Ashby for trusting me (and usps) with his master VHS tapes.

Here’s what I did to enhance this one:
VHS Playback/Transfer with JVC HRS9800U w/TBC on, into Canopus ADVC300
Adobe Premiere Elements to birghten, increase contrast, haze removal. Noise reduction via Neat Video.
Export to MP4 at 1080p.

Recorded by: Paul Ashby
Transfer/Post Prd by: Shayne Stacy

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Angelwitch- The Stone, San Francisco Ca 3/18/89 transfer from low gen audio cassette NWOBHM

We are finally on to today’s collections selections. This one is from Chris Eng’s collection and it’s a bit rough. I tried to EQ the distortion out of there, but there was no way. I hope fans can still enjoy.

Chris said he didn’t tape it and wasn’t sure who did.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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Red Hot Chili Peppers- Visage Nightclub, Orlando, Fl. 3/16/89 Transfer from low gen VHS tape

No audio today, but here is another video post from my collection. This one has been on YT for a while but this is a quality upgrade.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – ATI TV Wonder 600 USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video

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NOFX- Chatterbox, San Francisco 3/11/89 xfer f/1st gen DVCAM tape Fat Mike Wreck Chords full show

HUGE thanks to Alfie Kulzick for sending this DVCAM tape to me. Even though the DVCAM tape appears to be transferred from the master tape in super slow speed, the quality is still pretty decent. The audio does suffer from dropouts, so I plan on playing around with the audio channel settings to see if I can make it any better.. but first priority was to get it transferred ASAP.

Some of the other bands on the tape suffer from tape damage- it seems that the damage was on the source tape and not the DVCAM. If you see any major glitches or dropouts on this transfer, please let me know. I did the ol’ ffwd/rew thing to try to ensure the tape was as good as it can be. The picture was super clean for a tape this old.

Alright, back over to VHS.

Recorded by: The Chatterbox
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DSR-1800 – datavideo TBC-1000- ATI TV Wonder 600 – virtualdub
Light denoise in Adobe premiere elements/neat video

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Das Damen- WFMU Live in Studio, E Orange NJ 3/11/89 xfer from audio cassette complete

TLDR version: Forward to 3min to get rid of the tape issues

For today’s This Day in History, I pulled this one out of the tape collection. It doesn’t seem that I got this from George Norton (who taped a bunch of these), as this one has some hiss and bad phasing for the first 3min. Forward past that if you want to hear decent quality. So, unknown taper/unknown gen.

This takes place after their 2 SST albums were released, and about 2 months before they recorded the Mousetrap LP for Twin/Tone.

Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card

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