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Daniel's Collection

Al Di Meola   01/23/1982

The Warfield, San Francisco, CA
Source Revision to fix clipping

Lineage: SBD > ? > CDR from trade > EAC > Tracked w/ CD Wave Editor > FLAC
Additional lineage: FLAC > foobar2000 (combine tracks) > Audacity > WAV > foobar2000 > FLAC (level 8)
Checksums 01 God Bird Change.flac:3b0030bcd2b69b254ca73f45a1915fde
02 Egyptian Danza.flac:910c2dad538e51f43b1855ff0f8a4e46
03 Electric Rendezvous.flac:a6b932cec1311c4135424611c11a2013
04 Cruisin'.flac:70f3cddebbb875d89a65bb08855e18af
05 Ritmo De La Noche.flac:14b3e50863b47d7f4f7e4079a0cc52dd
06 Elegant Gypsy Suite.flac:b47daca3fd253072d1b899a976fce953
07 Nena.flac:5878aa0c7842609c4c3e50c40a98ac83
08 Flight Over Rio.flac:5635d495264eed0482e4c92d62c843b8
09 Race With Devil On Spanish Highway.flac:8c6d5b89dfb8a94c1ce91279453a3de9
10 Advantage.flac:8a86868adb93d263ac94e2e1202014f1
Media
Notes Originally shared by mr_mags on 2007-08-14

mr_mags Notes:
I left most of the tuning/"dead air" for that true concert-like experience : )

I attended this particular show. Two memories stand out: Walking into the lobby as Jan shook the venue with the opening
ominous notes of "Darkness" during his opening set. Also, I remember AJ sitting in his chair just destroying the contrabass.
I'm glad I broke out this disc to track & then share because it smokes even more than I remember!

Additional Notes:
The original audio was overamplified and clipped, particularly on the left channel. I lowered the levels and balanced the
channels as follows:
Tracks 1-6: Left: -5 dB, Right: -4.1 dB
Tracks 7-10: Left: -3.08 dB, Right 0 dB

The necessary change in the level adjustment occurs after a cut in the recording. There are a few more cuts in the
recording, but the levels seemed to change significantly only after the cut following track 6.

The speed of the recording is good. No need for adjustment.

To fix the clipping, I first applied a clip fix operation at a threshold of 93% on every section except for Tracks 7-10 on
the right channel - there's no clipping there because the levels were lower for some reason. I wasn't really satisfied with
the results of the clip fix so I then went through the audio and manually spot repaired hundreds of peaks. Due to the very
high number of distorted peaks, I'm certain that I missed some that could be repaired but I'm quite pleased with how it
turned out.

I did this work in Audacity and exported the results as FLAC files cut at the same points as the original audio. I created
an updated checksum with TLH.
-ledwhofloyd (Ross), Jan. 2022
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