Roy Orbison
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
New Orleans Fair Grounds
New Orleans, La.
April 30, 1983



01. end of unknown song (cut) -> Sweet Dreams Baby 3:00
02. In Dreams 3:11
03. Mean Woman Blues (cut) 2:16
04. Candy Man 1:53
05. Crying 3:42
06. Ooby Dooby 3:05
07. Leah 3:34
08. Working For The Man 3:21
09. It's Over 3:28
10. Oh, Pretty Woman 4:31
11. Running Scared 4:33

Total: 36:43




source: unknown audience mics and unknown recorder > TDK AD90 cassette (labeled #5/83)

Transfer to DAT (circa mid-2000): Tommy Stevenson's cassette master > Nakamichi CR7A (with head aximuth optimized) > Tascam DA-P1 DAT > Digidesign Audiomedia III card > Bias Peak 2.5.2 editing software > Tascam DA-P1 > DAT

Transfer to flac (Aug. 18, 2023): DAT > Sony PCM-R500 DAT > spdif > Focusrite Scarlett 6i6 (2nd generation) audio interface > USB > MacBook Air M1 > SoX (Sound eXchange) software v14.4.2 (capture) > FLAC

2024 edit: FLAC file > MacBook Air M1 > iZotope RX 10 Advanced v10.4.0.1926 (see editing notes below) > X Audio Compression Toolkit 2.55 (tagged, sector boundaries corrected) > FLAC


Editing notes
* I removed numerous audio dropouts (related to deteriorating condition of source cassette medium) throughout. Each dropout was roughly 0.01-0.02 seconds in duration, manifests itself as really quick drop in volume as it's not a total dropouts.
* To reduce mid-range muddiness, I used an EQ filter to reduce the midrange by 3db at 600 Hz using a 0.8 Q bell curve;
* After EQ, I boosted the volume of the recording by 0.3 db;
* I cloned 30 seconds of the left channel to repair an issue where the right channel dropped out completely about 1:50 or so into Track 3 (as noted below, I eventually removed most of this part of the song);
* I used the De-Click feature for about 6 seconds at 1:50 into Track 3 and on the last 7 seconds of the track to reduce intermittent cable noise (?);
* I removed the last 20 seconds of Track 3 because it was too badly damaged by cable noise (more noise than music);
* I repaired a 1.3-second DAT mistracking issue at 25 seconds into Track 11 with a 2.6-second splice from a near-identical passage.



Notes
The taper experienced significant mic problems (from an intermittent cable) toward the end of Track 3, where one channel dropped out completely and the other was marred by significant noise.

There's a glitch (jump in time) at about 1:44 into Track 3.

Roy Orbison was scheduled to play on Stage 4 at 3:45 p.m. on April 30, 1983, his first-ever Jazzfest performance.

Transfers and editing by Richard Russell (nolataper): From a selection of Tommy Stevenson's master cassettes loaned to me by Ben Windham, circa mid-2000.