Known R.E.M. Live Recordings

Known Live Recordings

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1983-04-28 Hoboken - AUD1
Equipment	Audience Cassette Master > WAV SoundForge > Flac
Length	90:00 min
Format
Taper	Guy_R_E
Taper: This was the third and last time R.E.M. played Maxwell’s and it was just a couple weeks after Murmur was released (according to the date in Wikipedia). I don’t remember that timing, but as a deejay at Maxwell’s I had gotten a test pressing of the album prior to its release from a kind soul at I.R.S. so I’d been living with it for a while. I don’t think this is as good a recording as the show from five months earlier on November 27th [that I uploaded here a couple years ago] but it has plenty of punch. There’s a lot of static on Secret Agent Man… I’m not sure what that’s about, but it’s coming from the stage or the PA, not from my humble recording setup. And a 90-minute cassette didn’t do the trick on this occasion - 7 Chinese Brothers is incomplete. I don’t remember if that was the last song of the encore or if they played another number, but they often enjoyed themselves during the encore with White Tornado and some choice cover versions followed by We Walk and a closing song, so I suspect the show ended after another 90-seconds or so.

1987-09-18 Dusseldorf - AUD#1
Equipment	Vivanco EM 160 > Sony WM-D6C
Length	109 min
Format	CD/flac
Taper	dimenew
Shared by the taper from his master in Jan 2009. Quality, very, very good. Conversion info: TDK SA90 -> Tapedeck Yamaha KX-493 -> Soundblaster AWE32 -> Wavelab 4.0 -> TLH -> FLAC 6 -> Dime

2008-10-01 Madrid - AUD#1
Equipment	SP-CMC-2 > Sony MZ-NH700 (PCM WAV setting) > Sonic Stage (digital transfer via USB cable) > Audacity (normalizing, track splits, fades) > TLH (fix SBEs, Flac level 5)
Format
Taper	Raya
Taped from the front row. This time they did not have PA under the stage so this recording doesn't have much bass.

2008-09-24 Zürich - AUD#1
Equipment	Neumann KM140's > AETA PSP3 > R09
Format
Taper	Alysha

2008-09-23 München - AUD#1
Equipment	Soundprofessionals CMC-4U > SPSB10 > Sony PCM-D50 @ 24/48
Format
Taper	Ratte
mic config: on my glasses location: ~ 15m from stage, right side transfer: Sony PCM-D50 > USB2.0 > PC > Adobe Audition3 > Flac Frontend 1.7.1 Etree Edition (Level8) editing: Audition3: • volumeboost on the left channel (+0.7dB) • tracking • fadeIn/Out • dithering/downsampling to 16/44.1

2008-09-17 Oberhausen - AUD#1
Equipment	Sony ECM-717 -> Sharp MD-MT15 -> PC -> Feurio (track split) -> CD-R -> Audiograbber (WAV file) -> TLH (flac level 8)
Length	115:15 min
Format
Taper	rhoeckel
From Taper: Recorded in Block 103 (right side), approx. 6th row or so.

2008-09-03 Oslo - AUD#1
Equipment	Lineage: Aiwa CM-30A > iPod 4G w/iPodLinux OS > Audacity 1.2.3 > X Audio Compression Toolkit 1.4b28 > Flac (level 8)
Format
Taper	twentynine
Audio: 16bit/44.1KHz mono Quality: B+

2008-08-28 Paris - AUD#1
Equipment	Sony PCM-D50 (internal mics) > WAV > FLAC > Dime > you > tu madre
Length	81:37 min
Format
Taper	Joseph Larkin
From taper: Pretty decent recording despite somewhat dodgy sound (gigantic outdoor music festival...what can you do?). The soundperson fooled around with the sound quite a bit, though this fooling around is mostly only noticeable during the first couple of songs.

2008-08-24 Manchester - AUD#2
Equipment	ECM-719 > Sony MZ-R900 > Soundforge 9 > Flac Level 6
Format
Taper	gazza
Taper notes: Recorded from the front row on Peter's side. Wasnt the best of sound and the recording as a result sounds kinda hollow and distant.

2008-08-20 Loreley - AUD#1
Equipment	1-ISI-SEHM-1-Innovative Specialists Binaural Ear Mounted Microphones (TFB-2 cardioid) Deluxe Audio Technica Cardioid > 1-SP-SPSB-6-Battery Box with Bass Roll Off (set at 107 Hz) > Edirol R09 (WAV, 16 bit, 44,1 kHz) > USB transfer to PC > Audacity > flac frontend > MakeTorrent 2
Format
Taper	Patrick (remfan72.net)