Sarah McLachlan
March 30, 1989
KCRW-FM
Los Angeles, California, USA
Taper: Unknown
Equipment: Unknown
Transfer: FM Broadcast > Analog Cassette (unknown generation) > WAV > Mastering > FLAC
01 March 30 1989 SNAP KCRW announcer intro (1:18)
02 Sarah's intro banter with Jeff Krosse (0:17)
03 Strange World (4:49)
04 next song first single banter (0:09)
05 VOX (5:36)
06 slight pause for instrument change banter (0:26)
07 Ben's Song (5:04)
08 interview KCRW SNAP March 30 1989 (7:21)
Total time 25:00
Notes:
Average FM Recording. Interview and studio performance.
This is a high resolution cassette transfer that has been slightly enhanced digitally. Mostly some minor imperfections in the actual tape recording were minimized, but also an attempt has been made to enhance and expand the dynamics that have been compressed by the effect of being transmitted over FM radio. Most of the ticks and pops and buzzes have been removed manually (microscopically) with iZotope RX Advanced 2 (some DeClick, some DeCrackle, some interpolation mode) but some anomolies may still be heard! No noise reduction or compression has been used to harm the music! Stop the loudness wars!
Lineage:
KCRW FM radio broadcast (mono? super-narrow stereo???) > Unknown FM Radio receiver > Unknown cassette deck > Unknown generation cassette transfer (possibly this tape is a master? maybe 1gen??? hard to tell...)
Cassette playback through a Nakamichi BX-2 (azimuth adjusted, no dolby, normal tape bias) > line out level 7.5 > rca to stereo 3.5mm gold plug > ZOOM H2 line in @ 99 record level 24 bit 96 khz > SDHC card > USB > HDD 24/96 .wav master transfer files saved.
Files phase corrected and balanced in Adobe Audition 3.01 automatic phase correction tool.
DeClipping DeClicking and other restoration with iZotope RX Advanced 2 both as a standalone program and as a plug-in.
Open Ambience Project "SHEPPi" Free Spatial Enhancer is slightly used as a plug-in.
BBE Sound Sonic Maximizer was sparingly applied to the effects chain as well.
Files edited, re-balanced, peak limited and final rendering @ 24 bit 96 khz with Wavelab 5.01b.
Trader's Little Helper for Hi-Res 24/96 FLAC8 conversion.
Additional FLAC tagging with Foobar2000.
I don't know for sure where this tape came from. It was owned by a taper of some other early Sarah shows, but I suspect that he might have got this tape in a cassette trade in the mail. There was also a safety copy of this show in the collection I had access to that sounded like it was copied from this cassette. However this could easily be a master tape - I cannot obtain any new information about the origins of this cassette, other than that it sounds like a major improvement over the previously circulating digital trade version that I have also downloaded. I didn't hear any "tape-to-tape" editing sounds when I was making the tape to digital transfer...
Very nice (and unique) performance and short interview. Upgrade!!!
audioarchivist@hotmail.com
01 March 30 1989 SNAP KCRW announcer intro.wav: successfully encoded to 'N:\Sarah McLachlan KCRW FM Snap March 30 1989 24 96 FLAC8\01 March 30 1989 SNAP KCRW announcer intro.flac' (ratio = 0.694).
02 Sarah's intro banter with Jeff Krosse.wav: successfully encoded to 'N:\Sarah McLachlan KCRW FM Snap March 30 1989 24 96 FLAC8\02 Sarah's intro banter with Jeff Krosse.flac' (ratio = 0.695).
03 Strange World.wav: successfully encoded to 'N:\Sarah McLachlan KCRW FM Snap March 30 1989 24 96 FLAC8\03 Strange World.flac' (ratio = 0.701).
04 next song first single banter.wav: successfully encoded to 'N:\Sarah McLachlan KCRW FM Snap March 30 1989 24 96 FLAC8\04 next song first single banter.flac' (ratio = 0.687).
05 VOX.wav: successfully encoded to 'N:\Sarah McLachlan KCRW FM Snap March 30 1989 24 96 FLAC8\05 VOX.flac' (ratio = 0.706).
06 slight pause for instrument change banter.wav: successfully encoded to 'N:\Sarah McLachlan KCRW FM Snap March 30 1989 24 96 FLAC8\06 slight pause for instrument change banter.flac' (ratio = 0.681).
07 Ben's Song.wav: successfully encoded to 'N:\Sarah McLachlan KCRW FM Snap March 30 1989 24 96 FLAC8\07 Ben's Song.flac' (ratio = 0.688).
08 interview KCRW SNAP March 30 1989.wav: successfully encoded to 'N:\Sarah McLachlan KCRW FM Snap March 30 1989 24 96 FLAC8\08 interview KCRW SNAP March 30 1989.flac' (ratio = 0.693).
No errors occured.
01 March 30 1989 SNAP KCRW announcer intro.flac: tested ok (file is decodable without error).
02 Sarah's intro banter with Jeff Krosse.flac: tested ok (file is decodable without error).
03 Strange World.flac: tested ok (file is decodable without error).
04 next song first single banter.flac: tested ok (file is decodable without error).
05 VOX.flac: tested ok (file is decodable without error).
06 slight pause for instrument change banter.flac: tested ok (file is decodable without error).
07 Ben's Song.flac: tested ok (file is decodable without error).
08 interview KCRW SNAP March 30 1989.flac: tested ok (file is decodable without error).
No errors occured.
01 March 30 1989 SNAP KCRW announcer intro.flac:4a975096e76d22f4a88ae123b55a022b
02 Sarah's intro banter with Jeff Krosse.flac:0ef1bfbe09d87162e75ea6f7c1299374
03 Strange World.flac:cbac524be7d2755824a7a5d72627559f
04 next song first single banter.flac:a64a090406f904843cacdc1f65481dff
05 VOX.flac:47b02001f37195d74e274c8e5e784831
06 slight pause for instrument change banter.flac:a970226c8d0760251b9ea5f25b326c14
07 Ben's Song.flac:837cc6b39257804ebe6ac54a266adf71
08 interview KCRW SNAP March 30 1989.flac:bcb95d5eb661241ef6724e7e1fc335ae
Checksum file saved to disk.
No errors occured.
foobar2000 1.2.9 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2013-08-25 05:23:23
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Analyzed: ? / ?
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR11 -2.76 dB -15.15 dB 1:18 ?-01 March 30 1989 SNAP KCRW announcer intro
DR10 -4.07 dB -16.01 dB 0:17 ?-02 Sarah's intro banter with Jeff Krosse
DR8 -3.51 dB -12.84 dB 4:49 ?-03 Strange World
DR14 -5.43 dB -19.84 dB 0:09 ?-04 next song first single banter
DR8 -3.04 dB -12.11 dB 5:36 ?-05 VOX
DR11 -3.48 dB -19.06 dB 0:26 ?-06 slight pause for instrument change banter
DR7 -3.34 dB -13.41 dB 5:04 ?-07 Ben's Song
DR11 -2.73 dB -14.88 dB 7:21 ?-08 interview KCRW SNAP March 30 1989
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Number of tracks: 8
Official DR value: DR10
Samplerate: 96000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 3195 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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