Talk:The Mole Show, Hannover, May 23rd 1983

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Notes from the Dimeadozen bootleg FLAC torrent

Trade CDR > EAC v0.99 > Cool Edit 2000 > TLH v2.4.1 > FLAC 8 > DIME > you

Big thanks to the original taper, and to the trader (our own omega) who hooked me up with a copy.

I mastered this 2011-05-28.

The base source was 1 big long track on a CDR, but the two halves of the show were quite different.

The first half was up high & had clipping in a buncha spots.

The second half wasn't clipped & indeed was generally at low levels.

So for the first half, I cut it all 3dB except for the first 6mins of the left channel (which was low compared to the right).

Next I did Cool Edit's clip restoration to fix those clipped spots.

Then I tried to balance the second half levels to the first, by bumping it all up 3dB / the right a further 2dB.

Next up, fixed clicks; this is an old CDR & there were many digi-artefacts, very light in sound, but they're there.

I did my best to remove them all, a hundred plus, one at a time.

They were only present in the first half; there were none in the second & I was quite glad about that.

(The other part took 90mins. to tidy up & I wasn't looking forward to another session that long - whew!)

Did a mini DIME edit (see below) off the beginning, removed 30sec silence off the end, cut it into tracks & SBE-fixed it to this fileset.

The EAC report is only retained to demonstrate a clean extract.

DIME edit:

As some tapers did, there was an added lead in of the singing Resident doing the talking intro from the 1977 Radio Special.

("Hello, everybody..." etc.)

That's official & hadta go.

NOTES

It's good stereo; starts fairly muddy & gets better over time.

And it seems like the "first half" tape source at one time was recorded over something else / bits of that bleed thru faintly.

And as you see above, there's lotsa edits.

Looks to me like someone cut cut cut to fit the best onto one C-60 tape at some point.

(Each of the "halves" described above were just seconds longer than 30min.)

That's how it came to me, so that's how it's goin' out to you.

ImaginaryJacques _(Admin) 💀 (talk) 10:55, 12 October 2025 (UTC)