Magnum 1994-04-23 The Mill, Preston, England, UK

Magnum
1994-04-23
The Mill, Preston, England, UK
1:40:01

1. We All Need To Be Loves
2. Hard Hearted Woman
3. Days Of No Trust
4. Just This Side Of Heaven
5. Love's A Stranger
6. Les Morts Dansant
7. Rock Heavy
8. On Christmas Day
9. How Far Jerusalem
10. The Tall Ships
11. The Spirit
12. Vigilante
13. Rockin' Chair
14. Kingdom Of Madness (cut)
15. Tell Tale Eyes
16. Sacred Hour
17. Only In America
18. Back In your Arms Again

lineage: AUD > ECM-S220 > Sony D3 DAT > unknown transfer > WAV 16/48 > edit Jerry(19)70: Audacity (amplification) > Ocenaudio (equalisation) > Audacity (normalisation, fades start/end/around tape cut, split into tracks) > FLAC 16/48 (level 8)

Mickey Barker - drums
Bob Catley - vocals
Tony Clarkin - guitar
Wally Lowe - bass
Mark Stanway - keyboards

I received a very good audience recording with lots of clarity and balance in the softer sections. Straight to DAT so no tape hiss. A little bass-heavy in the heavier sections. The start was very soft and the volume was turned up a few times during the first 2 minutes. During The Tall Ships, the volume was turned up a bit more. Gradual and linear amplification took some time but if you don't know where to "look", you won't hear it. There are still some small fluctuations in the volume that I think would happen if someone was walking past the mic and blocking part of the sound for half a second. That's part of audience recordings and I didn't try and fix those.

The very end of Kingdom Of Madness is cut, unfortunately. I tried different ways of editing this, trying to make it interrupting the flow in the least way possible, and the best way seemed to be fading out the last seconds before the tape cut and let that fade in with the applause after the tape cut. For a live recording a fade is weird of course, but any other short fade-out / short silence / short fade-in sounded weirder.

The venue sound didn't give a lot of bass and the mid-range was very loud. Some equalisation was applied and I am glad to gear that overloaded sound is now gone, bringing a bit more clarity to all the instruments.

I think we have a wonderful audience recording here! Bob Catley has a great voice in general and this must have been a very good night for him. I've lost touch with Magnum since Storyteller's Night - the music became too much AOR to my taste. Listening to this I still hear much of that but I am glad that overall they seem to have gone a bit heavier. I never thought the acoustic version of The Spirit did the composition any justice, the contrast with the powerful part makes it so good. Glad to hear some of that is back here, even for just a minute. I enjoy this show a lot!

Enjoy!
Jerry(19)70

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