Van Halen 1982-06-27 Zoetrope Studios Los Angeles, CA Van Halen

Van Halen 1982-06-27 Zoetrope Studios Los Angeles, CA

Van Halen
Zoetrope Studios
Los Angeles, CA
June 27, 1982

aud>2nd.gen.cassette>SonyTCWE435>PioneerPDR-
O4>CDR>EAC>WAV>Trader'sLittleHelper>FLAC

Quality: C

Roth intro
Romeo Delight
Unchained
Drum Solo
Dance The Night Away
Running With The Devil
Break
Where Have All The Good Times Gone!
Haen 'Em High
Little Guitars
Bass Solo
Jamie's Crying
Cathedral
Secrets
Everyone Wants Some!
Intruder
(Oh) Pretty Woman
Guitar Solo
Bottom's Up!
Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
The Full Bug

Notes: The band apparently rented an LA movie studio and invited a handful of people to hear their rehearsal for the 1982 tour. Fun intro by Roth, although a little hard to make out at times. While this is a fun listen, the bad part is the quality, which is very rough. While all the instruments and vocals can be heard, the sound is a bit muffled. The story I heard is that out taper was worried about being caught, so his recorded was under his jacket. There are also a few crackles on the tape. The order of songs is about what the band took out on the road as the tour kicked off on July 14 in Augusta, Georgia but it was changed up as is went on.

Van Halen
Zoetrope Studios Tour Rehearsal REMASTER - (NR + EQ)
Los Angeles, CA
1982-06-27

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First of all, thanks to Markum7 for posting this gem.

After listening to this I decided to try my hand at making it sound a bit more listenable.  First I used a bit of noise reduction to remove the ambient tape hiss using the first few seconds of the first track to "train" iZotope's noise reduction plugin.  The cool thing about this is that removing this type of noise doesn't seem to degrade the high frequencies very much at all.  I then used the Sony Graphic EQ to max out some of the upper frequencies and shape the bass so it is a bit less boomy.  I used my ears.

Overall it turned out good.  You can now hear the vocals and guitar MUCH better.   In fact there is room for more EQ and noise reduction if anyone wants to try their hand at this.  I made another mix (not this one)that sounds even better (to my ears) but unfortunately batch processing the files using a "one-size-fits-all" EQ setting caused some of the songs to clip way past the the peak levels especially during Eddie's guitar solo.

Of course, before downloading you should listen to the Before/After mp3 sound sample included in the comments below.

aud>2nd.gen.cassette>SonyTCWE435>PioneerPDR-
O4>CDR>EAC>WAV>Trader'sLittleHelper>FLAC>WAV>SoundForge+IZotope Noise Reduction Plugin+Sony Graphic EQ>WAV>FLAC

Quality: B-

Roth intro
Romeo Delight
Unchained
Drum Solo
Dance The Night Away
Running With The Devil
Break
Where Have All The Good Times Gone!
Haen 'Em High
Little Guitars
Bass Solo
Jamie's Crying
Cathedral
Secrets
Everyone Wants Some!
Intruder
(Oh) Pretty Woman
Guitar Solo
Bottom's Up!
Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
The Full Bug

Notes: The band apparently rented an LA movie studio and invited a handful of people to hear their rehearsal for the 1982 tour. Fun intro by Roth, although a little hard to make out at times. While this is a fun listen, the bad part is the quality, which is very rough. While all the instruments and vocals can be heard, the sound is a bit muffled. The story I heard is that out taper was worried about being caught, so his recorded was under his jacket. There are also a few crackles on the tape. The order of songs is about what the band took out on the road as the tour kicked off on July 14 in Augusta, Georgia but it was changed up as is went on.

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