Thanks once again to Jozef Becker for allowing me to borrow and digitize his TWR videos. This one was so dark that you could hardly see anything at all. I was able to brighten & increase exposure in adobe premiere, then de-noise with Neat video. Now you can see something, and it sounds pretty damned good.
I hope everyone is staying safe and well during this surreal time.
Since I am one handed now. I used my remaining good one to pull one of my cassette trays off the top of the shelves here. I found all kinds of GOOD stuff. Here is an old soundboard recording of TWR from the Vis in 1986. I just learned today that The Vis was the same building as the Kennel Club in the late 80s/90s, and is now The Independent.
This one sounds pretty damned good. I was able to use Izotope to boost the bass (as much as possible) and boost 1 guitar. I got lucky with the guitar- the program doesn’t always isolate the guitar… both guitars are not perfectly balanced, but there wasn’t much I could do about it.
Show starts with a 1 song soundcheck, then the show.
One last thing- I have around 90 TWR listings on the audio list on the sacramentomusicarchive.com website. I’ll need to get to them all someday
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon, M-Audio audiophile 2496 card
Music rebalance in Izotope.
Huge thanks to Jozef Becker for letting me borrow and digitize his Thin White Rope videos. This one appears to be a 1st gen VHS dub- the quality is really nice. The audio is not as distorted as most TWR videos!
Recorded by: Denis Bouffard
This one has a story. A couple years ago, Jozef Becker(TWR Drummer) loaned me some TWR VHS/Beta tapes to digitize and post on Sac Music Archive. One of them would not play- the tape felt like it was seized in the shell. I had a re-shell done here in Sac and still no luck. I gave him back the empty shell with all of the info written on the label. I took a picture and kept it in the folder with all of my other tape pictures.
So I recently discovered pacifc video repair up in Washington. I sent this tape in and they told me that the tape was pretty much shot, but they could lubricate the tape and try to play it back… so that’s what I had done. They had to do a bunch of lubrication passes and then a lossless transfer there in the shop. The tape now plays for about the first 20min then craps all over my heads and won’t play anymore. I am so glad that they were able to get the transfer done.
So, $113.09 later, here you go. I went to find the picture of the tape so I could fill in the info, and I apparently did not transfer that data over to the new RAID last year.
Transfer by: Pacific Video Repair
Merry Christmas to all you Christians. Here’s some nice Christmas music from Thin White Rope.
I had uploaded the raw version of this a couple weeks back when I got it back from the tape restore company, but Adobe Premiere would not read the file. I asked the company what codec they used for transfer and they were all “it has no codec, it is lossless”. I gave up on it for a bit… then I was able to figure out how to make it work, thanks to avidemux. (sorry, extreme nerd talk today). So if anyone ever needs to know what codec a file is using, avidemux baby.
Anyway, here is the brightened and degrained version of the show. Enjoy.
Transfer by: Pacific Video Repair
Codec Conversion by Shayne in Handbrake
and Enhanced with Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat video (denoise/brightness/etc)
I got this one from the guy who taped it off the radio in L.A… He told me that it included 20 minutes of material that did not make the Spin Radio Broadcast, but after checking the transcription LP track list and length(which I also own), that doesn’t seem to be the case. This is 34 minutes long, the Spin LP is 28-29min. So there will be a bit extra here, but not significant.
I definitely need to digitize the LPs with my setup as well.
Recorded by: ? (I can’t remember. Josh maybe)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
So here is a really special one today. Even though I have had this tape for a very long time, I want to give a special thanks to Roger for being OK with this post. If anyone has a problem with it (looking at you, my friend Lisa Fancher) please let me know and I’ll pull it. I figured that since this has been “unsurfaced” for 30+ years, we are OK to put this out there.
DAT Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DTC-500 & M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card.
Small glitch in “Disney Girl”, due to 30 year old generic brand DAT tape.
Rain Parade, Leaving Trains, Thin White Rope
Club Minimal
Sacramento, CA
02/12/84
Flyer scan by Ken Doose
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