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Serial #.............: Akashic Records : AR05
Artist...............: Prince
Album................: Love or $
Year.................: 2010
Genre................: One Off Concert
Comment..............: Minnesota Music Awards - Carlton Hotel, Bloomington : 20th May 1986
Type.................: Bootleg
Duration.............: 36"26
Cover(s) Included....: Yes
Audio Format.........: Lossless
Bitrate..............: Flac
Source...............: Soundboard Recording (EX+)


Tracklist

1. Intro (1"03)
2. Raspberry Beret (1"41)
3. Girls & Boys (5"14)
4. Life Can Be So Nice (4"24)
5. All Day, All Night / Controversy (3"59)
6. Mutiny (inc. Holly Rock - Dream Factory) (7"24)
7. Kiss (6"57)
8. Love Or $ (5"44)

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This recording came with many flaws and dropouts. (and some heavy humming from the gear)

What was done to it:
Pitch speeded up from start to finish.(it was playing way too slow)
Pitch speeded up again from 1:45 to 4:30, where the recording was slowing down heavily again.
Noise cleaned.
Normalised.
Panning corrected.(hell of a job!!, it went all over the place)
Various eq-processes to boost the quality to the max.
Left channel dropout from 4:50 till 5:15 fixed with audio from right channel, very noticeable.
Clipped peak restoration. Smoothed out some low end with heavy distortion, it"s still there but less intruding.
Didn"t touch hum, could have been removed but would kill the overall quality, it remains till 11:40 into the gig. Both options were discussed and we choose not to remove it.
While tracking, editted Kiss, which was incomplete. (added the extended part of the audience recording)
Also noticed you can hear the other side of the tape playing in the left channel..... Most noticeable at the end of Kiss, where Prince is talking to the audience. For that part, I replaced the left with the right channel.

Right..... after all this was done, I started thinking about another option, because I still wasn"t satisfied with the outcome.
What if I totally remove the left channel, which has the most problems?
And so I did, and started working from the already tweaked right channel. I added minor pseudo stereosound and gave it some more eq"ing.
Is it perfect now?? No, not by a long shot. The recording had too many shortcomings.
Is it enjoyable now? Hell yes!! It"s a 86 soundboard!! How can you not love it!!