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Mike's Collection

Frank Zappa   11/17/1981

The Ritz, New York, NY
Media FLAC
Notes (JWB REMASTER)
NOTES: This show was pro-recorded by Frank and broadcast on WLIR FM, New York. Unfortunately, there is a mysterious cut every 15:35 into the FM broadcast. I have tried my best to fill in these missing portions with the elusive audience source. The results are not magnificent, but I felt that it needed to be done in order to enjoy this FANTASTIC show in it's entirety. The complete FM torrent was assembled by Teasea, and I added the audience fills and remastered the audio for the entire show. The final result is not perfect...there are one or two shaky transitions...but it needed to be done. The excellent FM source was very bright and screechy - I have rectified this by fixing the EQ. There was also some EQ work done to the fills. This is probably the longest and best show of the 81-82 tour. Enjoy!

SOUND QUALITY:
A+ stereo (main FM source)
B+ mono (FM fills)
B stereo (audience fills)

TOTAL TIME: 168:06

Original FM broadcast with fills torrented on Zappateers as:
1981 11 17 The Ritz, NYC 158.37 FM (tubro2-clyde200-maiglocke-teasea) ZTLS#187

Audience fills & remastering by JWB.

Original Lineage for main FM source:
Master Cassette recorded from WLIR >NAK BX-300>WAV (SB Audigy)>CD-R>EAC>Flac Front end> Make Torrent

Original Lineage for audience fills:
Low Gen Cassette>CDR>EAC>WAV

Lineage for this torrent:
WAV>WAVMEGRE>COOLEDIT>CDWAVE>FLAC (Level 8)

DO NOT SELL OR TRANSFER TO MP3!
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Owned by Mike · Last Updated May 23, 2023