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Blue Mountain- Met Cafe, Proivdence RI 2/22/98 xfer f/DAT Soundboard Clone Alt.Country Americana

Busy day, so you get an On This Day late. If you have never heard Blue Mountain before, I urge you to look up their album Dog Days and listen- beautiful harmonies and excellent songwriting.
This show is good and I did my best to rebalance it in izotope, but the vocals max out from the soundboard, especially early on. It gets a lot better about 10 minutes in. Since the band relies on vocal harmonies so much, I didn’t want folks to get turned off right off the bat. You can listen to this about 10-15min in for a better representation or listen to the album.
Damned sbd mixes anyway.

Recorded by: ? (Maybe Stacey Taylor)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Vocal +5, Bass +2, Guitar +9(!)

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Pixies- Providence Civic Center, RI 3/15/92 xfer from 1st gen audio cassette full complete show U2

Today’s On This Day in History comes from an old tape trading pal from Rhode Island. His name is Phil (no last name, never knew it) and we probably traded about 100 pixies shows over the years. Thanks Phil!
I think Phile had a TCD-D3 professional Walkman. I don’t know the microphone, but it sounds like one of those sony mics.
I was trying to figure out why the place sounded so big… they were opening for U2! No wonder

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

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Big Black- Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel, Providence RI 12/30/86 xfer f/low gen soundboard cassette Albini

Here is a last minute replacement for today’s on this date in history post. I was planning to post a really great D.I. show from 1991 only to find out that Sony Vegas was not able to process the video correctly. 2 tries and 4 hours later, I discover that the D.I. show actually took place on 12/31. JFC. Never mind. It’s really great, I’ll get to it one day.

So I pulled out this cassette. It was a clean recording but the drum machine overwhelmed the entire thing. Izotope did a great job in rebalancing- it’s pretty damned good!

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Vocal +7, Bass +9, Guitar +9

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