LAURA NYRO - REMASTER (noise & hum reduction + EQ) + SPECTRAL REPAIR OF REMAINING HUM on three songs
1970-01-24
Berkeley Community Center
Berkeley, California, USA
"8:30 PM, one performance only"

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CONTRAST CLAUSE: This is a 3-song remastered supplement to an existing torrent seeded on DIME: http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=337698 which is a Remaster of a torrent that is currently on DIME: http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=328175

IF YOU'VE DOWNLOADED THE PREVIOUS REMASTER (337698), YOU ONLY NEED TO POINT THIS TORRENT TO DOWNLOAD INTO THAT FOLDER (be sure to stop the previous torrent!) SO THAT YOU WILL ONLY DOWNLOAD THE THREE NEW REMASTERED TRACKS (01, 05, 09) instead of downloading the whole torrent again.
If you do this correctly, this torrent will simply add three new tracks to that directory and will not overwrite anything.
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The remaster I torrented previously had some pesky "whirring motor noise/hum" that I didn't know how to remove, but after doing some research I found out that I could eliminate the offending noise fairly easily using iZotope RX's Spectral Repair.

As it turns out it was pretty easy, I just selected the offending motor noise/hum in spectral view (see included screenshots), hit "apply" and voila! no more noise! The first track also needed some additional hum removal using iZotope Hum Removal.

I've appended the new file names with additional processing acronyms: "_sr", "_sr_hr", and included screenshots of iZotopes spectral view.

Please listen to the before/after mp3 sample in the comments below before downloading.


------------------- previous remaster notes --------------------

This was a fun challenge to see if I could bring some life back into this well-worn recording. Although it still sounds pretty rough, I did succeed in reducing a bunch of noise, bringing out more vocals and reducing some of the whirring motor hum on tracks 1,5,6, & 9

Track 12 appears to have already been damaged by a previous attempt at noise reduction using what sounds like a noise gate so don't blame me for that one. ;-)

Be sure to listen to the before/after mp3 samples in the comments below before downloading.

Lineage:
AUD Reel > CDR > WavePad Sound Editor (amplification @ 400%) > Trader's Little Helper (FLAC 8, align on sector boundaries)>WAV>SOUNDFORGE+IZOTOPE RX NOISE REDUCTION PLUGIN, IZOTOPE RX HUM REDUCTION PLUGIN>SONY GRAPHIC EQ>FLAC>WAV>iZotope RX Spectral Repair & Hum Removal (track 01)>FLAC

Laura Nyro, piano and vocals

1. New York Tendaberry
**1. New York Tendaberry + SR & HR**
2. Captain for Dark Mornings
3. He's a Runner
4. Spanish Harlem
5. Blackpatch
**5. Blackpatch+SR**
6. Nyro addresses the audience (inaudible) > Wedding Bell Blues > Stoney End
7. Emmie
8. Buy and Sell
9. Poverty Train (tape change)
**9. Poverty Train (tape change)+SR**
10. When I Die (fade in)
11. Tom Cat Goodby
12. Time and Love > Save the Country
13. Timer

Total Time: ~ 65:00

QUALITY NOTES Rating: C+/B-

------------------- original seeder's (328175) notes --------------------

When I got this tape, it was DISTANT and VERY LOW, almost inaudible. The
vocals are often muffled and difficult to hear clearly. The intimacy of the
performance and Nyro's tendency to modulate greatly, within a single song, her
touch at the piano and her voice, as well as the large hall itself, all contribute
to difficulties the taper - whose excellent work is represented elsewhere on
Dime - had capturing this performance.

I amplified it as much as my system would allow, which improves
some tracks, while others - particularly the first few, and the first
few measures of many of the others - remain very low and difficult listening.
At the same time, the applause was quite loud to begin with, and now it's
unfortunately even louder. There is also quite a bit of STATIC and TAPE NOISE.
A few of the tracks have some tape damage as well, in particular on tracks 1 and 12.

So, this is not the kind of thing you could burn and listen to in the car; rather,
it demands a careful listening. I'm putting it out here mainly for the fans of her
music (of which I'm one) who will be happy it exists regardless of the quality
(to be sure, there are some nice moments here); and also for someone with more
audio savvy than I who might know how to repair it further. As we all know,
there exist precious few Laura Nyro live tapes from this period...