Bjorklossless

Björk
2008-01-23
Opera House
Sydney, Australia

Digital Master Audience Recording

Soundman OKM-II Rock Studio > M-Audio MicroTrack 24/96 > 16 bit 44.1kHz wav >
CDWave  > Flac Frontend > flac

Remastered:
Flac > Flac Frontend > wav files > Soundforge (joined wavs, set fades, level boost and
balance, manual removal of hundreds of clicks, removal of close clapping, EQ) > CD
Wave 1.95 (tracking ) > Flac Frontend (level 7, align sector boundaries) > flac

Taper: auroboros (auroboros@gmail.com)
Remaster: danlynch (nyctaper@nyctaper.com)

The Remaster Process:
Due to a short between the cable and jack of the Microtrack, there were hundreds of
clicks/ticks in the left channel (and several dozen in the right channel) of the master
recording.  The clicks/ticks were essentially electronic bursts which were quite loud
but also quite brief.  The clicks were prevalent throughout the recording during all levels
of volume, so that in order to remove each individual click, it was required that the click
was isolated and reduced to the exact volume of the segment where it appeared.  If the
click had been entirely deleted, a resulting "echo click" would appear.  When the clicks
were reduced to the level where it appeared, the sound disappeared.  At points, this would
be to less than 2% of the original volume, other times as high as 70%.  About a half-dozen
clicks could not be removed entirely because of the position inside the waveform.

There is a 60-second segment of Cover Me included in this folder for the listener to
compare the before/after results.  The first 30 seconds are from the original file, and the
second 30 seconds is the exact segment repeated without the clicks. 

Additionally, the levels were boosted and balanced, and some minor EQ was done to soften
the boominess of the master recording.

Many thanks to auroboros who agreed to permit his recording to be remastered.  The
enormous amount of work on this project would was undertaken because auroboros
captured such an excellent underlying master recording which was unfortunately marred
by an unavoidable technical glitch.

A Bjork Hub Production:
http://bjorklossless.goudwater.nl
bjorkhup.no-ip.info (direct connect network)

Setlist:
[total time  1:18:36]
01. Brennið Þið Vitar
02. Earth Intruders
03. Hunter
04. Unravel
05. Jóga
06. Who Is It?
07. The Pleasure Is All Mine
08. Pagan Poetry
09. Desired Constellation
10. Army Of Me
11. I Miss You
12. Bachelorette
13. Cover Me
14. Wanderlust
15. Hyperballad
16. Pluto
17. [encore break]
18. Oceania
19. Declare Independence*

*The final minute of Declare Independence contains
the booming sound of fireworks.