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This is an attempted remastered version of the David Bowie and Nine Inch Nails joint Dissonance Outside tour. Specifically the show at the Riverport Amphitheatre in St. Louis, Missouri on October 11, 1995. This concert was released in a multitude of formats, as bootlegs first, but none of them I could find were in a good enough quality. The source of all of these is a soundboard recording that is flawed in many ways. As a youg NIN Bowie fan I first came into contact with this recording through the seemingly official ‘Back In Anger 1995 radio transmissions 2 CD set’ I received as a christmas gift. This appears to be the only widely available public audio release of the material.
I was appalled by the quality of it when I first listened to it. I knew I shouldn’t expect too much given it’s age and the mood Trent was in at the time but it took me out of the amazing experience I was hoping for. I was gutted to find no attempt at remastering had been made, not even bootleg, so I made my own.
Some of the things that are wrong with this original recording:
1. Very thin and badly EQ’ed, too much highs, very little low end(mostly fixed)
2. Very harsh and painful sibilance(reduced with filtered compression, not too harsh but still present)
3. No loudness at all, no compression (multiband compression)
4. Track skips and hiccups (not fixed)
5. Stereo balance(L-R) off to one side for some songs(fixed), sometimes switching midway song(not fixed)
6. No ‘live’ feel(fixed, added gentle reverb and other things to mids)
Let me preface by saying I am not even remotely an expert, so I would love someone to do a better job. I used Ableton with mostly built in tools to fix the most annoying things. Unfortunately this is the same original soundboard source and not a multitrack recording(god I would have loved to have this).
If a decent master gets available I will remove these videos immediately.
