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Ironically i haven't really listened to most of the official live albums much. I tend to just go straight to the board tapes, which often sound better due to ha

by TylerE 2y ago

Ironically i haven't really listened to most of the official live albums much. I tend to just go straight to the board tapes, which often sound better due to having a few decades of technological advancement - many were transferred in the 90s or 2000s. Of course they didn't have then what we have now, but even consumers by then had access to software for things like mastering that would have made any 70's engineer drool - certain kinds of repairs are much more easily done digitally - back in the day cutting out a spot of stactic or a mic pop involved literal tape and razor blades.

dekhn 2y ago
Two From The Vault isn't a "official live album", it's a soundboard that was shelved for decades due to the quality of the recording. I got this album on CD when I was in college (early 90s) and didn't have access to high quality taping equipment, and soundboards from the late 60s were very rare. The audio quality is absolutely excellent (I am just relistening to it now, there's only tiny background hiss, excellent clarity on all the instruments, decent vocals, and only a bit of high-volume distortion on the guitar and bass). It's also a nice counterpoint to the original of the "From The Vault" series, One From The Vault, which was recorded years later under ideal conditions and the band had been practicing extensively. Much has changed from the days when we had to implement balanced binary trees of tapes (analog tape copies were lossy, so you wanted to minimize the total depth of copies).
- lb1lf 2y ago
  Oooh, thank you for sending me down memory lane. (I took part in lots of tape trees back in the nineties -mostly Neil Young, with a good helping of Grateful Dead and occasionally some Phish thrown in for good measure. Then CD-R became a thing and we did lots of those for blanks+postage. Good times! (I even did DAT trees, as I had three (!) DA-P1s gifted from a local radio station going out of business) I once got called down to the customs authority to explain what I was up to - they noted I got loads and loads and LOADS of seemingly innocent recording media in the mail, only to ship them out again at a later date. Nothing showed up when they inspected the packages for drugs, so if I didn't mind - would I PLEASE explain what was going on?

by TylerE 2y ago

dekhn 2y ago

Two From The Vault isn't a "official live album", it's a soundboard that was shelved for decades due to the quality of the recording. I got this album on CD when I was in college (early 90s) and didn't have access to high quality taping equipment, and soundboards from the late 60s were very rare. The audio quality is absolutely excellent (I am just relistening to it now, there's only tiny background hiss, excellent clarity on all the instruments, decent vocals, and only a bit of high-volume distortion on the guitar and bass). It's also a nice counterpoint to the original of the "From The Vault" series, One From The Vault, which was recorded years later under ideal conditions and the band had been practicing extensively. Much has changed from the days when we had to implement balanced binary trees of tapes (analog tape copies were lossy, so you wanted to minimize the total depth of copies).

lb1lf 2y ago
Oooh, thank you for sending me down memory lane. (I took part in lots of tape trees back in the nineties -mostly Neil Young, with a good helping of Grateful Dead and occasionally some Phish thrown in for good measure. Then CD-R became a thing and we did lots of those for blanks+postage. Good times! (I even did DAT trees, as I had three (!) DA-P1s gifted from a local radio station going out of business) I once got called down to the customs authority to explain what I was up to - they noted I got loads and loads and LOADS of seemingly innocent recording media in the mail, only to ship them out again at a later date. Nothing showed up when they inspected the packages for drugs, so if I didn't mind - would I PLEASE explain what was going on?