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The Neville Brothers - The Catalyst, Santa Cruz December 14, 1986 (Matrix) (1986)

Track listing:
  1. announcer > The Time is Right 7:21
  2. Africa 5:31
  3. Caravan 6:20
  4. Dance Your Blues Away 10:02
  5. People Say 7:03
  6. Fever 4:49
  7. Wildflower 6:30
  8. Mojo Hannah 5:50
  9. Drift Away 4:54
  10. Tell It Like It Is 4:26
  11. Never Needed No One 4:09
  12. Whatever It Takes 4:34
  13. You're the Only One 4:37
  14. Sitting in Limbo 3:58
  15. Brother John > 2:27
  16. Iko Iko > 3:06
  17. Do You Wanna Dance > 1:25
  18. The Banana Boat Song > 1:04
  19. They All Asked For You 2:40
  20. Big Chief 5:43
  21. thanks and crowd before encores 1:42
  22. New Suit 3:57
  23. Fire on the Bayou 7:26
  24. Amazing Grace 2:05

Notes

The Neville Brothers
December 14, 1986
The Catalyst
Santa Cruz, California, USA

From 3 channel cassette master - 1 channel monitor soundboard + 2 channels of microphones over stage - digital matrix mix - excellent sound quality.

I left the disc split where the first tape change was.

disc 1 - 41:06
01 [07:21] announcer > The Time is Right >
02 [05:31] Africa
03 [06:20] Caravan
04 [10:02] Dance Your Blues Away
05 [07:03] People Say
06 [04:49] Fever

disc 2 - 70:33
01 [06:30] Wildflower [cuts in]
02 [05:50] Mojo Hannah
03 [04:54] Drift Away
04 [04:26] Tell It Like It Is
05 [04:09] Never Needed No One
06 [04:34] Whatever It Takes
07 [04:37] You're the Only One
08 [03:58] Sitting in Limbo
09 [02:27] Brother John >
10 [03:06] Iko Iko >
11 [01:25] Do You Wanna Dance >
12 [01:04] The Banana Boat Song >
13 [02:40] They All Asked For You
14 [05:43] Big Chief
15 [01:42] thanks and crowd before encores
Encores:
16 [03:57] New Suit
17 [07:26] Fire on the Bayou
18 [02:05] Amazing Grace

Dolby C Maxell XLII-S cassettes > Yamaha MT44D 4 channel recorder (4 channels of 45 minutes per 90 min. tape in one direction when sensor is on back of cassette).

1 channel of monitor soundboard + 2 channels of Crown PZM microphones over stage.

Transfer: Yamaha MT44D (Dolby C decoded) > Macintosh with Echo Layla audio interface > AIFF > Pro Tools (minor "nip and tuck" edits, time alignment, normalization, matrix mix and tracking - no equalization or digital noise reduction) > AIFF files > xACT (flac level 8 files with sector boundaries verified). md5 file created with checkSum+.

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From 3 channel cassette master - 1 channel monitor soundboard + 2 channels of microphones over stage - digital matrix mix - excellent sound quality.