FURTHUR
Spring 2011 Official Release Mid-Set Fade Fix Kit


This fileset contains everything you need to roll back the cruel mid-set cuts and fades inflicted upon the officially released soundboard recordings. Simply drop these files into the folders containing the official releases, move or rename the non-fade-fixed files, and voilà! you can enjoy these sets as they were meant to be heard.

Caveats and additional information:

(1) These files were created by "reverse engineering" the official releases. They are NOT sourced directly from the master soundboard recordings. If and when the unmutilated master recordings become available, these files will become obsolete.

(2) The "unsplicing" of these files is exact, but the "defading" of them is not. The fade-ins and fade-outs intersected at a very low level of volume. I readjusted the volume at the intersections until they "sounded about right." They are not just exactly perfect.

(3) I did not correct any dropouts, pops, crackles, buzzes, or clipping. My goal was simply to recreate the pre-mutilation soundboard recordings, warts and all. There are plenty of warts, and those that occur in the fades are now more noticeable. The pops at 10:00 in Uncle John's Band from 3/27, for example, are now truly spectacular to behold.

(4) To the best of my knowledge, I did not introduce any dropouts, pops, buzzes, or clipping in the process of rolling back the fades. That being said, I would not be surprised to learn that I inadvertently did so here or there. If you spot an artifact in one of these files that is not present in the original file, please let me know.

(5) The track boundaries at either side of the "fade fix" pairs are identical to those in the official releases. However, the internal boundary between the fade-fixed tracks are not necessarily in the same place. I placed the new boundary wherever seemed most appropriate. This means that the times of the new files sometimes vary considerably from those of the originals.

(6) I did not roll back the fades in 3/8 or 3/15. These are crowd noise only.

(7) Most of the fades occur in the middle of the second set, but 3/20 also includes a fade in the first set. Fixes for both sets are included.

(8) In order to undo the mid-set fade in 3/29, you must first move Sugaree (d2t06 on the official release) to its correct position in the first set, between Black Throated Wind and Bertha. I do not know why the tricksy hobbits and gnomes placed Sugaree at the end of disc two.

(9) Wherever possible, the filenames and tags of the fade-fixed files are identical to those of the official releases, with the addition of "_fadefix" to the end of the filenames.

(10) The fade-fixed files are NOT cut along sector boundaries. This will matter only if you plan to burn the files to CD, which seems unlikely, since the fades were introduced to accommodate CD time limits. If you wish to correct the SBEs, load all of the files that you wish to correct (not just the fade-fixed files) into Trader's Little Helper, so that the padding (silence) will fall at the end of the last track of the set or CD.

Enjoy!


Files included:

frtr110211d2_04_Dark_Star_fadefix.flac
frtr110211d3_01_China_Doll_fadefix.flac
frtr110212d2_05_Terrapin_Station_fadefix.flac
frtr110212d3_01_Death_Dont_Have_No_Mercy_fadefix.flac
frtr110213d2_05_Eyes_Of_The_World_fadefix.flac
frtr110213d3_01_The_Wheel_fadefix.flac
frtr110310d2_06_Unbroken_Chain_fadefix.flac
frtr110310d3_01_Wharf_Rat_fadefix.flac
frtr110311d2_06_The_Eleven_fadefix.flac
frtr110311d3_01_Black_Peter_fadefix.flac
frtr110312d2_06_I_Know_You_Rider_fadefix.flac
frtr110312d3_01_Stella_Blue_fadefix.flac
frtr110313d2_07_Viola_Lee_Blues_fadefix.flac
frtr110313d3_01_Death_Dont_Have_No_Mercy_fadefix.flac
frtr110317d2_04_Throwing_Stones_fadefix.flac
frtr110317d3_01_Terrapin_Station_fadefix.flac
frtr110318d2_08_The_Other_One_fadefix.flac
frtr110318d3_01_China_Cat_Sunflower_fadefix.flac
frtr110319d2_07_The_Eleven_fadefix.flac
frtr110319d3_01_The_Wheel_fadefix.flac
frtr110320d1_06_Wharf_Rat_fadefix.flac
frtr110320d2_01_Passenger_fadefix.flac
frtr110320d2_07_All_Along_the_Watchtower_fadefix.flac
frtr110320d3_01_Sittin_On_Top_Of_The_World_fadefix.flac
frtr110322d2_05_Revolution_fadefix.flac
frtr110322d3_01_Viola_Lee_Blues_fadefix.flac
frtr110323d2_04_China_Doll_fadefix.flac
frtr110323d3_01_Uncle_Johns_Band_fadefix.flac
frtr110326d2_06_Dark_Star_fadefix.flac
frtr110326d3_01_Terrapin_Station_fadefix.flac
frtr110329d2_05_Mountain_Song_fadefix.flac
frtr110329d3_01_Scarlet_Begonias_fadefix.flac
frtr110330d2_06_The_Wheel_fadefix.flac
frtr110330d3_01_So_Many_Roads_fadefix.flac
frtr110401d2_04_She_Came_In_Through_the_Bathroom_Window_fadefix.flac
frtr110401d3_01_China_Cat_Sunflower_fadefix.flac
frtr110402d2_06_St_Stephen_fadefix.flac
frtr110402d3_01_Spanish_Jam_fadefix.flac
frtr110403d2_06_Time_fadefix.flac
frtr110403d3_01_Dear_Prudence_fadefix.flac
frtr110405d2_05_We_Love_You_fadefix.flac
frtr110405d3_01_The_Other_One_fadefix.flac
frtr110406d2_05_Eyes_of_the_World_fadefix.flac
frtr110406d3_01_Viola_Lee_Blues_fadefix.flac
frtr2011-03-27.sbd.D2_06_Uncle_Johns_Band_fadefix.flac
frtr2011-03-27.sbd.D3_01_Unbroken_Chain_fadefix.flac
nas4_frtr_110304.flac16_frtr110304d2_06_The_Other_One_fadefix.flac
nas4_frtr_110304.flac16_frtr110304d3_01_Morning_Dew_fadefix.flac
nas4_frtr_110305.flac16_frtr110305d2_05_I_Know_You_Rider_fadefix.flac
nas4_frtr_110305.flac16_frtr110305d3_01_King_Solomons_Marbles_fadefix.flac
nas4_frtr_110306.flac16_frtr110306d2_06_Nobody_Girl_fadefix.flac
nas4_frtr_110306.flac16_frtr110306d3_01_China_Doll_fadefix.flac
nas4_frtr_110325.flac16_frtr110325d2_07_The_Other_One_fadefix.flac
nas4_frtr_110325.flac16_frtr110325d3_01_Eyes_of_the_World_fadefix.flac

