The Show
According to the notes with the source files, this was a soundboard recording but does sound more like a radio broadcast to me. This came to me as MP3s of a show that someone had worked on (it was all VERY LOUD, which tends to be a giveaway). This at least is in stereo - this show was also broadcast on TV in Germany - a video of that s on YouTube with a mono soundtrack and is well worth a watch (a link to that at the bottom of this page).
What Was Done
As always, to start with everything got saved in 1 large lossless .wav file for me to start work on. I think the recording I had access to had originally been a vinyl bootleg - there was a fair bit of surface noise and crackle which I tried to remove first. Most of it is gone now - there's still a little on the first track. I got to work with EQ and the usual studio toys to bring more clarity and punch to the sound mix. I also had to deal with a fair amount of sibilance and tamed most of that, and then mastered to make it clearer and more
powerful overall, and a bit wider. The result is a really really good record of the band at that time; I'm sure
you'll enjoy it. There is a very brief skip in Watch Me Bleed which you might notice - there wasn't much I could do about that.
The All Important Download/Stream Link
As always, the restored
and remastered show is available to download or stream for free as a
single 320kbps MP3. Just hit the link:
Setlist
Memories Fade
The Way You Are
Suffer the Children
Pale Shelter
The Prisoner
Ideas as Opiates
The Hurting
Mad World
Watch Me Bleed
Change
Start Of The Breakdown
Encores :
Mad World
Pale Shelter
Be sure to check out the rather shorter recording from the UK leg of this tour by Tears For Fears I restored a few years ago HERE - available to download for free.
Supporting The Site
If
you want to support the work I do on these recordings, and (if you wish to) obtain separate, fully tagged 320kbps MP3s of this
restoration for less than the price of a coffee in return, or lossless
FLACs - or even a lossless copy on CDR - head on over to the Rewards For Donations tab
to see how you can obtain these for a very small donation towards the
site. There is NO OBLIGATION to do so of course - you can take the
file on this page absolutely for free - but every single donation is
appreciated and helps me do more shows and update some of the
software I use as time goes by. Either way, enjoy the show.
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Ok, before I go...
Here's that video of the TV broadcast version with mono sound - it says remastered in the title but that's nothing to do with me or this site.
