Starjelly08
Sound Rating

Seven Stars for the soundboard clarity. Around this time in their recordings, the drums were typically heavy in the Mids, and this one is no exception. Guitar is very loud in the mix, bass is pretty loud too. And vocals. Kind of strange how all of those can seem so loud actually. Drums are the only thing a bit on the quiet side. Definitely not completely lost. That is something that is somewhat easily fixed in a remaster. Plenty of transients, enough for a transient booster, or enveloper to do its job. Which, considering how loud/powerful the rest is...a bit of low end on the drums and transient boosting might make this a contender, once remastered, for one of the fullest *potential* soundboards of this era yet. In fact... Now that I am hearing more of it... I believe this was a show I did remaster years ago. Wow. Anyway...solid performance. Not much was as noteworthy as some earlier shows like rants or alternate versions or crowd control. Or fucking ACOUSTIC MAYNARDS DICK. Yes. There is an earlier show that contains a shortened acoustic performance of maynards dick. Time to HUNT! Cymbals actually got even crispier by Track 2 - Part of Me. Stereo Field is pretty apparent, especially on drums. Guitar seems panned a little left. Maybe bass and vocals are too. Oddly... Track two, is Part of Me... Then it also becomes Sober. And very strangely, the crowd applause abruptly stops? Im Not sure how. Almost sounds like possibly an entirely different recording too? Now the bass has tons of low end, drums are louder, vocals are quieter. I doubt it was just the sound guy doing his job. Genuinely sounds like a different recording altogether. Perhaps someone overlapped a different version of Sober into the end applause of Part of Me. We will likely never know what happened there. Awesome performance of Sober anyway. As it goes into Hush, you can hear the applause be cut abruptly again. Very interesting stuff going on here, recording-wise. Anyway, this new section of show has a lot more low end. Snare has got that Undertow thud in the low mids. To a near Muddy degree. Cymbals are less crisp now and more quiet. Sounds like they distort a little too. Not bad at all though. Just noticeably less full in the Highs than the first track. Editable. There kept being odd cuts in the sound...like, not dropping out during performance, but rather someone cutting out audience or something and cutting back on length of time between songs. Im wondering if this particular tape was intended for making into bootlegs to sell at stores. This would definitely be around the time that started to get big with Tool recordings. There are a lot of edits going on here. The snare is less booming in Bottom suddenly and the toms are really crisp in the treble. We are back to lots of highs and cymbals. While this is a recording that contains mysterious changes and edits... none of them are necessarily bad or weakens the show/s itself/themselves. Plenty of great performances in great quality throughout this semi-mess. Absolutely must be some conglomeration of recordings, i believe.

hodor
Sound Rating

Part of me... yep, this is a part of a SBD capture. Sounds good, but is a partial... very listenable in this part but origin is dubious.

deckard74
Sound Rating

Lots of questions around this one, great soundboard capture tho. Worth the listen, and probably worth a respin from time to time. 7 stars for making me wonder... lol