Artist: Sex Pistols
Title: Live on the Aanarchy Tour at the Manchester Electric Circus 9th December 1976.
Newly digitally remastered in January 2013 from the original recording.
Files in the upload:
Sex_Pistols_Manchester_Electric_Circus_9-12-1976_Digitally_Remastered_Jan_2013_MP3.zip
Sex_Pistols_Manchester_Electric_Circus_9-12-1976_Digitally_Remastered_Jan_2013.FLAC.zip
The MP3 zip is 224bit mp3 files of each track, suitable for loading into an MP3 player.
The FLAC zip is FLAC files of each track, sized ready for burning to a gapless audio CD.
Burning to CD of the MP3 files is not recommended. This is because the MP3 format is lossy and decoding them will intoduce small gaps in the audio data, which will cause audible clicks at the end of each track on a gapless CD.
Details of the remastering:
EQ applied digitally using audio software on a PC, as follows:
1. Moderate narrow cut to frequencies at around 145Hz to reduce muddiness caused by a venue standing wave.
2. Moderate very narrow cut to frequencies at around 78Hz to reduce excessive bass caused by a venue standing wave.
3. Large boost to frequencies 50Hz to 175Hz to improve overall bass clarity & volume.
4. Large boost to frequencies 750Hz 12kHz to compensate for poor frequency response of microphone.
5. Small to moderate boost to frequencies 50Hz to 175Hz and 750Hz to 12kHz during the final 30 seconds of Liar, the first 30 seconds of Pretty Vacant and approx 60 seconds in the middle of Problems, to compensate for short periods when I sat down for a rest and the mic was out of direct sight of the PA speakers.
6. Small to moderate boost to frequencies 50Hz to 175Hz and 750Hz to 12kHz during occasional short periods of a few seconds in Submission and No Feelings, to compensate for short periods when the mic was out of direct sight of the PA speakers.
"Large" typically means 15-30db, "small" to "moderate" typically means 3-10db
I think the result is a big improvement to the sound of the recording - I hope you agree.
The equipment used for the original recording was an Aiwa Radio Cassette Recorder using the built-in microphone. This was quite a good quality item and fairly expensive (for the time) at around £100. In todays money this would be around £500. It wasn't perfect, but it was all I had available at the time... many thanks to one of my best friends for trusting me enough to lend it to me (especially as he wasn't with me on the night). I wish I could go back in time with the audio recording equipment I use for recording bands now!
Apologies for missing the beginning of Problems... because of the very indifferent response from the audience, I hadn't expected an encore, and had started packing away the tapes, when the band came back onstage.
Apologies also for losing the tape of the Heartbreakers set - I wish I had been more careful with it. It would have been nice to share the recording of the complete gig.
The remastering work has taken about four weeks, so I very much doubt that I will do the same work on the Clash and Buzzcocks sets.
I hope you enjoy new version as much as I do.
Mark Taylor.