Bruce Springsteen
December 16th, 1984(audience tape - alternate source)
Atlanta, GA
The Omni

The circulating source was uploaded twice by Ivan. His second upload had an infill for 3 missing tracks. Those tracks were taken from this alternate source which otherwise is not in general circulation. This source is much more complete.

Tapes are of unknown generation from UK Record Fairs. Quality is quite reasonable/listenable but not great. There is substantial tape hiss and some recording breakup towards the end of Highway Patrolman. The breakup also causes occasional minor instability on other tracks throughout the show. The speed is faster than the circulating source. Based on checks against other shows around the date I suspect the circulating source is closer to the correct speed. This source complements the circulating version which has its own issues.

I have 2 sets of tapes for this source which between them cover the show quite well due to a different track configuation for each set. This upload is largely taken from the first set of tapes which was a little easier to compile but required Darlington County from the second set of tapes. There are some infills from the second set for tape ends plus two from the circulating source. I kept this as close to a raw transfer as possible except for channel balancing so no processing other than volume adjustments, file conversion/splitting and infills. I am working on a second version with speed adjustment and other fixes as an audio editing project but decided to upload this "best of raw" version as an interim 31 years on anniversary.

Tapes set one 1 Sony HF90 - 2 Sony HF90 - 3 Sony HF60
Tapes set two 1 Sony HF90 - 2 Sony HF60 - 3 Sony HF60

Playback Yamaha KX-480 Cassette Deck with dolby off. Playtrim neutral.

External Furutech ADL GT40a analogue to digital converter set in Windows for 24/96 transfer. All other sound devices disabled.

Recorded using iZotope RX3 Advanced with enabled ASIO ADL driver as internal 32bit float/96000 wav file and saved as a raw transfer. Azimuth adjustment and normalisation using RX3.

Infills from the circulating source address gaps after Highway Patrolman and My Hometown. Editing done using 32-96 files in Audacity.

Resampled using RX3 and files converted to flac using CDWave.

Tracks have been checked for errors and SBE's using TLH.

101-Born in the USA
102-Out in the Street
103-Prove It All Night
104-Johnny 99
105-Atlantic City
106-Reason to Believe
107-Highway Patrolman
108-Johnny Bye Bye
109-Darlington County
110-Glory Days
111-The Promised Land
112-My Hometown

201-Badlands
202-Thunder Road
203-Cover Me
204-Dancing in the Dark
205-Hungry Heart
206-Cadillac Ranch
207-Downbound Train
208-I'm on Fire
209-Pink Cadillac
210-Bobby Jean
211-Racing in the Street

301-Two Hearts
302-Ramrod
304-Detroit Medley-Travelin' Band
305-Twist and Shout-Do You Love Me
306-Santa Claus is Coming to Town

Thanks to mjk5510 for checking his copy of this source. His copy is also hissy and runs faster than mine with the same breakup and some pitch instability on Highway Patrolman.

Also thanks to hrubesh for providing me with the earlier upload of the circulating source and to Ivan for making them available in the first place.