Godspeed You Black Emperor - 2002-01-25 - CAT, Bordeaux, FR (soundcheck + show, new HQ audio mix)

Godspeed You! Black Emperor CAT (Cercle des Arts Traditionnels) Bordeaux, FR January 25, 2002 Timestamps: 0:00 Soundcheck 36:36 sacred harp intro 42:00 Gathering Storm 59:44 Dead Metheny 1:17:50 Tazer Floyd 1:35:38 John Hughes 1:47:31 Motherfucker = Redeemer 2:30:36 BBF3 2:53:30 World Police 3:07:56 The Dead Flag Blues (Outro) 3:18:44 The Cowboy SOURCES: Video: Digital8 cassette → VHS (PAL, presumed first gen, unknown equipment) Capturing: PAL VHS → Samsung SV-4000W → IO Data GV-USB2 → AmaRecTV → avi (Huffyuv Multithread, uncompressed PCM Audio, YUV 4:2:2, 720x576, 25i) Audio Processing: avi (uncompressed PCM) → VirtualDub2 → wav (direct stream copy) → REAPER 4.78 (synchronize 2xAUD mix with camcorder audio) → FLAC Note: Soundcheck audio was encoded directly from avi (uncompressed PCM) to FLAC with no processing. Video Processing: avi (HYMT) → VirtualDub2 (Camcorder Color Denoise, 6-Axis Color Correction, Brightness/Contrast) → avi (FFV1) → StaxRip 2.48 (QTGMC deinterlace 25i to 50p output, crop & spline36resize to 768x576) → MKV (FFV1 + FLAC mux) Encoding: MKV (FFV1 + FLAC) → StaxRip 2.48 (Convert To YUV420, CNR2, KNLMeansCL Strong, NNEDI_rpow2 spline36 resize to 1440x1080) → MKV (x264 --crf 18 --preset slower, FLAC mux) 2xAUD mix source info: Source 1 (YP): Marantz Em8 → DAT-LP Mode → CD-R lineage: 3xCD-R (unknown gen) → EAC (secure mode) → FLAC → Adobe Audition 3.0 (remove silence at beginning and end of discs, trim overlapping audio on end of disc 1 and start of disc 2) → WAV → Traders' Little Helper (fix SBEs) → FLAC. Source 2: unknown taper and equipment lineage: 2xCD-R (unknown gen) → EAC (secure mode) → FLAC 1.4.3 Both sources synchronized and mixed in REAPER 4.78, using stock plugins (multiband compressor on source 2) and T-RackS 5 Suite (EQ and compressor/limiter). Exported to a single WAV (16/44), tracks split on CD sector boundaries in Adobe Audition 3.0. Encoded to FLAC 1.4.3 and tagged in foobar2000. Thanks to Ben for videotaping, YP for audio recording, Bruce for sharing his VHS and CD-R copies, and Joel for the VHS and CD-R transfers. "Yannick... you better yell; they know my voice." -DH