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Mono recording.
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Heavy on treble, and for the first few songs or so the taper adjusts the volume on the recorder. Cassette sourced. Mono.
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Thank you to Kevin K for sharing this cassette tape with me. It's taken some time for me to finally get this tracked and analyzed, but it is indeed an upgrade for source 2 of this show. I had transferred the first copy of this tape and it was very muddy. More than likely a high generation of this recording. Can confirm these are both the same recordings with the tape flip coming right at the start of Get Down Make Love and a pause after Head Like A Hole to preserve tape during the encore break. I would say there is a drastic improvement in sound quality. I would suspect this cassette copy is a low gen. Potentially 1st or 2nd gen. It's hard to tell.
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This is sourced from the bootleg titled, "Buttfuck Parlour Time #23". Yeah weird title, I know. This is not a pressed silver CD as some people have thought. Mono sourced.
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This is a huge addition to the archive. This tape would have been lost forever if it hadn't been for elegymart and stonecutter for going saving this from the trash. Big thank you to them for taking this tape and sending it to me. GP taped a lot of shows in the 80-90s and many of them are unplayed. I assume this tape hadn't been played since being recorded. This tape sounds really good. Seems like GP had some issues throughout the night on the rough floor judging by the conversations you can hear in-between songs. The mics get bumped a few times throughout the night, causing drop outs. Notably during Terrible Lie, Wish and Suck. The levels fluctuate throughout the recording as well, which I tried my best to normalize. I believe the recorder gets bumped during Sin and the levels go to zero as the tape kept recording and misses about 8 minutes. The levels were then checked during Something I Can Never Have and the music comes back. This recording was taped on the lower side, so you may hear some of the noise floor from the DAT recorder during the quiet parts of the set. Otherwise, this is the best sounding tape from this show! Sad to have it incomplete. Once I get an update from GP about what they potentially used for recording, I will add it to the show's archive page. Still amazing to see older shows being unearthed like this almost 30 years later.
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Update from ninlive: I have reworked this recording because the transfer ran way too fast. I slowed it down by 4.5% and have retracked the recording. The initial transfer itself was not great. The recording was transferred very low and you get a lot of the noise floor in the transfer, meaning a lot of hiss that would not be there had they transferred this at a decent level. First few songs are cut and I am not sure if it was because it was a bootleg and they didn't want to share a full recording or what, but very weird if you ask me. I would love to find an upgrade to this source.
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Thanks to JW for reaching out to the archive. Found their cassettes in the basement and this one was bought in a music store on Newbury St. in Boston. I suspect with them selling bootlegs, this must be a pretty low gen recording. Comparing it to source 1 on the archive, this is definitely a different source and complete. Source 1 is missing a good bit of the first few songs, as they are cut. This recording needed a bit of help, it ran slow, so I sped it up to normal playing speed by cross referencing a few other tapes from the tour to match the speed of the songs. Tape flip comes after The Only Time. I initially just had JW's transfer of this, but he was kind enough to send the tape to me to do a bit of work on it. Azimuth adjustment and recording to the Marantz at a proper level has definitely improved this tape. Taper must have moved their mics on the tape flip because the sound is a lot better and clearer.
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Alternate recording from this show. A very good recording as well. Mono.
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None.
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Decent recording for 1994. Bass is a tad bit heavy, but other than that it is an average tape. Few dropouts in the tape. Probably just artifacts from the tape, as it is over 20 years old.
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This unknown audience recording is the same source as the "Killer Instinct" silver CD below, but is the complete recording. As most bootleg CDs at the time cut many songs in order to stay at 1CD, you lost much of the performance. Thanks to a NIN trader, they received a cassette copy of this recording back in the early 90's. It doesn't sound as good as the bootleg, as I assume this is a few generations from the master tape. But still nice to have the full recording!
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Good recording, but incomplete. On the last part of the silver CD (tracks 8-13).
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This comes from a 3rd gen cassette tape, thanks to Smores. To my knowledge, this is my first time seeing this recording and it's first time being released. There were a few problems throughout the night. Mic dropouts and then during "Down In It" the backing tape cassette decided to stop working. It was then aborted and after some time the show was restarted to Trent saying, "You know, they don't make tape decks like they used to." The recording is quite good as well! Big thanks to Smores for lending me all of his NIN cassettes!
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The sound overloads at certain parts of the recording and Now I'm Nothing fades in. Head Like a Hole is incomplete. NIN supported Carter USM and the Wonderstuff for this show. This is taken from a 4th generation tape. If anyone has an upgrade to this source, please get in contact.
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I had a 3rd gen recording from Aaron F that I received a long time ago. I transferred that tape with a Nak ZR-7 deck and at the time didn't really properly azimuth adjust. I think that was in 2010 or so. Then 2014, Smores sent me over a bunch of cassettes to transfer and he also had a 3rd gen cassette tape of this recording. I transferred it with my Nak CR-3A deck that I knew how to dial in well. The quality is amazingly different. The sound is quite more apparent and without so much hiss. I don't know if the earlier transfer method, if I had done it right, would have made any difference to the sound. I suspect it was probably not as low a gen as suspected. This new transfer is about a minute longer. Having more before the show. Nice little upgrade to this recording! "Get Down Make Love" was abandoned and "Head Like a Hole" was abandoned. I think the crowd was not into them and they just wanted to get the set over with. Probably the start of TR's dislike of European tours. Enjoy!
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Great recording. Thanks to Aaron for sending a 3rd generation tape for the archive. This is a huge upgrade to the source that is circulating. The previous transfer sounded "tinny" and the sound was not as full. This is a raw transfer of the 3rd generation cassette tape, with no EQ or Noise-Reduction.
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This is a different recording altogether from source 2. Thankfully someone has sent me a few low gen cassettes from the earlier tours. The recording is "ok." But this is my first time seeing this show in lossless format. During "Terrible Lie" there is some artifacts from the tape. I have transferred this twice and they are still there. Must be due to it being over a 20 year old tape. This is the 16 bit version. This can be burned straight to CD. If you would like the 24 bit version of this recording, you can find it on DIME or on the NIN Drive.
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This is an mp3 sourced recording. It's an ok recording, but I'd definitely love to have a lossless copy with a lower gen for this show. The mp3 version runs a bit slow and I am not sure if its even worth fixing it. If you have a better copy, please get in contact.
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After the resurfacing of the Boston 1990 master tape a few weeks ago. I was told that Sluggo had also recorded a NIN Lollapalooza set in Mansfield. I saw that creature_d on DIME was uploading a bunch of Sluggo's masters. So I just thought I would ask over PM if they had this available. They kindly sent over the wetransfer link of the 32-48 transfer of the tape! It's an average tape with what sounds to me is some overprocessing of noise reduction. Possibly the master had dolby NR on the D6. But I can't be sure. It has floated around on the internet that Ice-T and Dave Navarro came out and performed 'Head Like A Hole' with the band. But even on this recording, there is no introduction of them. Although there is some very loud cheering in-between which maybe indicates both musicians joining the stage? Tape is pretty much complete, Now I'm Nothing starts recording a few bars in and then there is a tape flip during the intro of 'Down In It.' Like I always say, it's so crazy to see recordings like this pop up 33 years later!
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Big thanks to Tapeworm48 for sending me over a bunch of DATs to get transferred. This is a 1st gen cassette tape copied to a 32 kHZ DAT. The recording is ok but to my knowledge this is the first real recording circulating from this date. There have been many fakes out there claiming that it was from this show in Clarkston, but was actually the a recording from the previous day in Chicago. Obviously, I will be on the look out for a lossless copy of this recording, or gathering any other information on it.