Yes
Radio City Music Hall
New York, NY
Saturday, September 8, 2001
Last Show of the US leg of the YesSymphonic Tour.
Jon Anderson - vocals, guitar & percussion
Steve Howe - guitars, vocals
Chris Squire - bass, vocals & timpani
Alan White - drums & percussion
Tom Brislin - keyboards, vocals
with William Straumburg conducting the Long Island Symphony Orchestra
3 taper composite 5.1 mix
Recorder 1:
Taper: Jon Babcock
Location: 1st mezzanine, 3rd row center aisle.
Gear: Coresounds Binaural Mics > Sony D8 @ 32kHz
Lineage:
Master DAT > PCM R-500 > Onkyo SE-U55 > Sound Studio > xACT
Recorder 2:
Taper: Tapehead2
Location: Orch 3, row YY, seat 311
Gear: Sonic Studios DSM-6S > MiniDisc
Lineage: MiniDisc > CDR > USB Flash drive
Recorder 3:
Taper: Smashmark
Location: pit, 4th row right
Gear: AKG 391 > Sony M1
Lineage: Master DAT > PCM R-500 > ? > CDR2 > xACT > Sound Studio > xACT
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When Ron asked me if I'd be interested in creating a surround mix for this show I agreed because of the uniqueness of the show with an orchestra compared to any other average Yes show. I was sent the three recordings as they were generally released to the trackers and decided on which one to use for what location in the surround field based on their characteristics.
What I heard was essentially three recordings in a line moving away from the stage. The Smashmark tape was neraly in mono and very tight to the music, not much reverb and only close audience members. Recorder 1 had decent stereo separation and audience, and Tapehead2's had a big hall reverb. This made them perfect candidates for center, front and rear, respectively.
When I began trying to sync tapes 1 & 3 I ran into problems that just couldn't be resolved and brought this up to Ron. He contacted the tapers and got fresh master rips for us to use. Taper 1 gave me two transfers from his DAT, one digital and one analog. I tried the synchronization again, but found several errors in the digital transfer. I finally decided to use the analog transfer for the front left and right channels. It has a little hiss, but is an unbroken transfer of the entire show complete with intro and outro music. I also found out that the release master I was using before had a multitude of micro-edits in it to remove loud claps, which was why I couldn't get the sync correct. With this new transfer it was no problem.
In the meantime Ron told me he had been editing the video to sync up to Tapehead2's recording, so I decided to use her recording as a base for speed correcting the other two.
Tapehead2's recording was from her CD-Rs and had minute edits in some of the dialogue and several disc change breaks. These breaks were re-timed to match the unbroken taper 1 stream, then filled in with ambience from elsewhere in the recording. The same was done for the Smashmark tape, which also had several breaks in it. In no case was it necessary to patch one taper with another, so the sound field should remain unaltered throughout.
...Speaking of which, I must hand it to all three tapers, all of whom performed brilliantly and professionally. These recordings are all free of particularly annoying audience (well, taper 3 has a singer), and the soundfields on all do not waver in any way. Volume and mic placement are consistent throughout. It made for an easy mix where the levels didn't have to be adjusted frequently as they would have if one of these had been limited or compressed in any way (a situation I've come across several times).
After all the mixing was done the low end from tapers 1 & 2 was summed together and sent to the sub.
What you get in the end is a recording that begins with the orchestral introduction in stereo, then when the band comes on stage the other three channels join in and create an immersive sound experience that puts you in the center of the Radio City Music Hall.
All work on this was done with Adobe Audition 1.5, along with some plugins. Each recording was EQd so as to sound best with the other two, and considering it's placement in the room. For the DVD stereo PCM track the 5.1 mix was reduced to stereo with the jbabcock and Tapehead2 tapes panned to the sides and the Smashmark tape in mono in the center to give the recording a tighter image.
A 16/44.1 resample is provided in this package as well. This is the same as the stereo PCM track on the DVD, but at CD quality, and is designed for both continuous seamless playback on harddrive based players and for CD burning. It contains optional tracks at the end of the sets to be used for different purposes. For seamless playback put the fadeless segues in your playlist. For CD burning optional fade-ins and -outs are also provided. Use these instead of the seamless segues and your CDs will have smooth fades at both ends.
FFPs:
01 Give Love Each Day Intro.flac:c0eb641be09cb78aebe087f8d6313746
02 Close To The Edge.flac:86c5f338fc1e9b8688c6f459468b3fa9
03 Symphonic Interlude.flac:97fa8763f923c6dcd02dddb783ee974a
04 Long Distance Runaround.flac:5e9af919c12979ac4fa5fcbcc9deddd8
05 banter.flac:137388f99594a63a58dcb781f852af6e
06 Don't Go.flac:316d4534bce9c337dd85153ea4d0f04f
07 banter.flac:79f755362ef9f99a350deba5cd6ca07e
08 In The Presence Of.flac:9eb4782aeb96b87b6272bffd550e74f2
08.1 CD fadeout.flac:9c87e733b2da4ad14fd32f7145495d6c
08.2 seamless segue.flac:6cdd838619dc5b748b11cc91373620e6
08.3 CD fade in.flac:55aa131d8b2beb713cdbb6cfa82ca5b2
09 banter.flac:cc1074cbece42969b1dd07d13cd2d12c
10 The Gates Of Delirium.flac:a566b01c371e5f8296378961d49da893
11 Solar Winds.flac:049ca88579bb208319e120f79ddf7211
12 Clap.flac:252b087bf7a562fd32df1a5f87862d23
13 Perpetual Change.flac:db4c47b92b1234574ed1d0dc973f4ab5
14 Starship Trooper.flac:9fa887ec19458c8a9c6e72b0079d3903
14.1 CD fadeout.flac:32f2fbbc459a93ae0ffc6169d7d74eb3
14.2 Seamless segue.flac:9631d53d63f0e0ef0e775a64001e60f2
14.3 CD fade in.flac:6c2db2249fb8a989d46a3f61532d486f
15 And You And I.flac:bfcaccb38ee9a547ea6fe25d1f3e55ed
16 banter.flac:0fc717ab60f517056558158f8020db40
17 Ritual.flac:b8a167e971d243e4c6f1fc89ed6d0e6e
18 I've Seen All Good People.flac:cc4d468d4665455874899bda05451586
19 Roundabout.flac:bb20473607306a5d67681b728a40e8ad
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