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Canyon 's Collection

Legion of Mary   04/18/1975

Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, IL
Source matrix
Media audio/flac   2 discs
Notes hd1
Tech Notes Source 1:
MAC> C> c> C> CDR> EAC> flac
mono
1st set & "The Harder They Come" & alternate "Boogie On Reggae Woman" of 2nd set
Unknown taper & equipment

source 2: shnid=4482
MSR > 1R > 1PCM > 3DAT > CD > EAC > SHN
first four songs of the 2nd set.

Source 3: shnid=124315
sbd>??>cass>flac
last two songs of 2nd set
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notes:
I received a CD of this show several years back. The quality was poor and I
put it on the shelf and forgot about it. It was only recently I ran across the
CD and realized much of the show did not circulate.

Somewhere in the lineage, someone substituted a degraded copy of the circulating
soundboard source (4482) for the first four songs of the second set and probably
tossed the audience copy of those songs. The audience source picked back up with
"The Harder They Come" and the CD finished with "Boogie On Reggae Woman". The
Jerry site lists the tracks to end the show (206 & 207) as "Boogie on Reggae Woman"
& "Talkin About You" and does not list "Harder They Come" as being played on
the 18th. Who knows, about all we can tell is that this Harder They Come does not
match the song from surrounding shows. I decided to leave it in for your enjoyment.

Recently taperchuck3 & Kevin Tobin released a soundboard copy of the two final
songs of the second set (124315). I have added these to my copy to make a complete
show. Not wanting to toss the audience copy of "Boogie On Reggae Woman", I have
labeled it as alt206 and left it in the show folder.

I handed everything over to Droncit to see if his wizardry could make something out
of almost nothing. What you will hear is significantly better than what's on my CD.

Bill Proctor aka germain 4/25/2013
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==Droncit Notes:
I used a paragraphic equalizer to lower some of the boominess in the bass.
I added a little clarity to the bass with a virtual valve simulator, but
most of the change from the original was to get rid of some of the bassiness
and loss of high frequencies through equalization. That left a very noisey tape.
The tape was mono, and the left channel appeared to be slightly better than
the right, so this is just the left sidespread over both channels.
It sounds clearer this way.

There may be multiple sources involved (besides the soundboard).
I decided to not use noise reduction because there was so much noise and so
little signal that it would have cut into the music too much. Instead, I
used a spectral filter to bring down the noisiest areas by a few dB. The
last thing I did was to gain-normalize each track (including the soundboard
tracks, after interpolating the pop in one track) to -1.5 dB, and then to
autolevel so that they all sound somewhat similar.
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