Queen music download : ANNOUNCE: Bootleg Race (stark remaster)

Queen - Bootleg Race
Budokan Hall, Tokyo April 14th 1979
Lineage: Bootleg Race (Tarantura silver cd) --> Flac > WAV > Har-bal 1.5 > Wavelab 5.01b > Flac (level 8)

**As always, I have restored/remastered this FOR MY OWN USE. I hope the community sees it as enough of an upgrade to want it, but if you don't like it, please don't download it.**

Firstly, this recording has been crushed by compression, and it's impossible to undo. However, by correcting the equalisation I have minimised the effect and significantly increased the peak-to-average ratio (dynamic range). 

Secondly, each track has been individually normalised by Tarantura, resulting in, for example, Love Of My Life being the same volume as Sheer Heart Attack.  This normalisation also causes the raising of background noise (i.e. tape hiss and crowd noise) on quieter tracks, so I have manually matched the transitions between tracks so the volume no longer jumps when a new song starts.

As for the sound, the bulk of the equalisation was done with Har-Bal. I then applied high- and low-pass filters (essentially sophisticated bass and treble controls) with a Waves VEQ4 equaliser and brought it back up to level (-0.2dB) with a Waves L3 limiter in Wavelab. 

I have re-tracked the songs so there now less tracks, corrected the balance between left and right channels and applied new smoother fades to disc beginnings and ends. All tracks were converted to 24 bits prior to processing (increased dynamic range/lower noise floor versus 16 bit). NO new compression was applied.  And...no denoisers!

Please note that if you are directly comparing this version with the original, it will sound quieter.  If anyone wants more info on the remastering, or what I mean by 'dynamic range'/'compression'/'16 or 24 bit' etc, please post and I'd be delighted to bore you with it.

If anyone missed the recent remaster of The Miracle Game, it's here:

http://www.queenzone.com/forums/1263959/announce-the-miracle-game-stark-remaster.aspx

Disc 1
01 - We Will Rock You
02 - Let Me Entertain You
03 - Somebody To Love
04 - If You Can't Beat Them
05 - Death On Two Legs
06 - Killer Queen
07 - Bicycle Race
08 - I'm In Love With My Car
09 - Get Down, Make Love
10 - You're My Best Friend
11 - Now I'm Here
12 - Don't Stop Me Now
13 - Spread Your Wings
14 - Dreamer's Ball
15 - Love Of My Life
16 - '39

Disc 2
01 - It's Late
02 - Brighton Rock
03 - Keep Yourself Alive
04 - Bohemian Rhapsody
05 - Tie Your Mother Down
06 - Sheer Heart Attack
07 - We Will Rock You
08 - We Are The Champions
09 - God Save The Queen
10 - Announcement

Hello Stark,

Thanks for your hard work !!
I will listen to this with pleasure :)

Thank You!

MERCI BEAUCOUP FOR YOUR WORK

Thank you very much for your hard work!!

Excellent!!!  Thank you so much.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!

Awesome remaster...!

Your brilliant work gives us an essential Queen-recording. That means a lot to me.

cheers

Many thanks for all your work, Stark!

onedunpark wrote: Fantastic,  an essential download.  Thanks for all your efforts with this one, stark and also to BootLuca for the original.

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A really good point, and my apologies for not mentioning it in my post.  Credit where credit is due, and without  BootLuca we wouldn't be listening to this at all.  So, many thanks for the original.

Thank you very much for this remaster!!!

Thanks for your work!

Oh splendid, I know how I'll be spending the rest of the evening. Thanks!

Robbieboy wrote:

why, oh why, did Japanese audiences insist on clapping constantly through every song!! Don't think I have ever heard a Queen show recorded in Japan where the performance was not to some extent marred by this.

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Hey, no offence taken on my part.  I know what you mean, but I think it's kinda fun.  Obviously it'd be nice to hear the music instead, but seeing as we've got no choice, hey, whatchagonnado?  May as well make the most of it.

Having said that,  one benefit of the remaster is that the clapping doesn't sound quite so bad as it does on Tarantura's original.  It should now sound more natural, and so sit a little better in the mix.  At least that's the theory...

Thank you very much! Japanese emotionalism does not interfere with perception!

This sounds much better..Thank you for taking the time to do it mate. Hope whatever they release next isnt as noisy & saturated...Thanks again for making this listenable.

Thanks a lot for this share!

Tony

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