Kanalvogt SG | Kraftwerk - Live in Sheffield 1991 @KanalvogtSG | Uploaded August 2022 | Updated October 2024, 21 hours ago.
Kraftwerk live at City Hall, Sheffield, UK
July 16th, 1991
The Mix Tour
Home Remaster
Recording quality: A-/B+ (2 sources mix)
Attendance: 2.000 - 2.271
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00:00 Meine Damen Und Herren
00:50 Numbers
05:01 Computer World
09:49 Home Computer
18:26 Computer Love
25:43 Tour De France (Wrong song)
26:14 The Model
30:28 Tour De France
37:51 Autobahn
50:01 Radioactivity
57:09 Trans Europe Express
1:07:51 The Robots
1:13:47 Robotronik
1:18:32 Pocket Calculator
1:30:45 Music Non Stop
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One of the most famous concerts from the UK '91 tour is Sheffield '91. Most footage and audio clips from the tour are from this concert. Allegedly, the Kraftwerkers had to play in a lower sound volume because there was another show next to the city hall and they got complaints from the performers of that show. The attendees had to sit on the seats since this is a city hall. That's why a few of them shouted sit down when someone was standing. Before playing Tour De France, someone shout "Antenne!" and Ralf said "Auf jeden Fall! - Absolutely!" and speaking of Tour De France, they wanted to play Tour De France after Computer Love, but then they realized that this was the wrong setlist order, stopped playing it and started playing The Model which was the correct song. Other than this, there's nothing else that's worth mentioning about the concert except the anticipated chorus mistake during bridge of Computer World and that Ralf's voice sounds awkwardly course in a few songs like in some of the other UK '91 concerts.
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The first time I had to mix two sources in a home remaster because of quality differences was this concert. The main source, known for being uploaded by Ren Fuchsfein, has issues with the speed stretching. There are also tape glitches during Numbers and Computer World, but these are minor issues. It's a 3rd generation tape and it was probably taped by the same person who taped the 2nd generation tape. First, he wanted to normalize the speed by changing the pitch by 3% on Audacity which is a big mistake because it should be normally done with the "Change Speed" tool and not with the "Change Pitch" tool that only changes the pitch and not the tempo. Then he recorded it on the 2nd-gen tape and later, he realized that the tempo sounds a bit wonky because he only changed the pitch and not the tempo. So he digitalized the tape and changed the tempo, but with high quality stretching this time and he forgot doing that for the songs after Radioactivity. The problem with HQ stretching is that it distorts the sound of the audio. Now he recorded it on the 3rd-gen tape which caused tape glitches during Pocket Calculator.
What I did was using parts from the Heute Abend bootlegs which partially has the low-gen recording without the speed stretching problems. It has Computer Love to Tour de France and The Robots to Pocket Calculator. So I used these songs to replace those from the main source. It has almost no tape glitches in Pocket Calculator, but it still had a problem. The audio fidelity was low, so I tried to increase it by EQs. It sounds better than the version without the EQs, believe it or not, but it still doesn't sound as good as the other songs because I couldn't put more EQs on it without making the noise louder. As for the main source, I could do nothing to fix the HQ stretching distortion. Trans Europe Express and Music Non Stop are not affected by it luckily as I explained it in the paragraph above. Only the tempo was a bit wonky, so I fixed it by reducing the tempo by 3% on FL Studio which stretches the audio much smoother without any distortion.
After fixing those issues and mixing the two sources, I put some EQs on the two sources except for Pocket Calculator where I already had done it.
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*Copyright Disclaimer: Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.*
Kraftwerk live at City Hall, Sheffield, UK
July 16th, 1991
The Mix Tour
Home Remaster
Recording quality: A-/B+ (2 sources mix)
Attendance: 2.000 - 2.271
__________________________________________
00:00 Meine Damen Und Herren
00:50 Numbers
05:01 Computer World
09:49 Home Computer
18:26 Computer Love
25:43 Tour De France (Wrong song)
26:14 The Model
30:28 Tour De France
37:51 Autobahn
50:01 Radioactivity
57:09 Trans Europe Express
1:07:51 The Robots
1:13:47 Robotronik
1:18:32 Pocket Calculator
1:30:45 Music Non Stop
__________________________________________
One of the most famous concerts from the UK '91 tour is Sheffield '91. Most footage and audio clips from the tour are from this concert. Allegedly, the Kraftwerkers had to play in a lower sound volume because there was another show next to the city hall and they got complaints from the performers of that show. The attendees had to sit on the seats since this is a city hall. That's why a few of them shouted sit down when someone was standing. Before playing Tour De France, someone shout "Antenne!" and Ralf said "Auf jeden Fall! - Absolutely!" and speaking of Tour De France, they wanted to play Tour De France after Computer Love, but then they realized that this was the wrong setlist order, stopped playing it and started playing The Model which was the correct song. Other than this, there's nothing else that's worth mentioning about the concert except the anticipated chorus mistake during bridge of Computer World and that Ralf's voice sounds awkwardly course in a few songs like in some of the other UK '91 concerts.
__________________________________________
The first time I had to mix two sources in a home remaster because of quality differences was this concert. The main source, known for being uploaded by Ren Fuchsfein, has issues with the speed stretching. There are also tape glitches during Numbers and Computer World, but these are minor issues. It's a 3rd generation tape and it was probably taped by the same person who taped the 2nd generation tape. First, he wanted to normalize the speed by changing the pitch by 3% on Audacity which is a big mistake because it should be normally done with the "Change Speed" tool and not with the "Change Pitch" tool that only changes the pitch and not the tempo. Then he recorded it on the 2nd-gen tape and later, he realized that the tempo sounds a bit wonky because he only changed the pitch and not the tempo. So he digitalized the tape and changed the tempo, but with high quality stretching this time and he forgot doing that for the songs after Radioactivity. The problem with HQ stretching is that it distorts the sound of the audio. Now he recorded it on the 3rd-gen tape which caused tape glitches during Pocket Calculator.
What I did was using parts from the Heute Abend bootlegs which partially has the low-gen recording without the speed stretching problems. It has Computer Love to Tour de France and The Robots to Pocket Calculator. So I used these songs to replace those from the main source. It has almost no tape glitches in Pocket Calculator, but it still had a problem. The audio fidelity was low, so I tried to increase it by EQs. It sounds better than the version without the EQs, believe it or not, but it still doesn't sound as good as the other songs because I couldn't put more EQs on it without making the noise louder. As for the main source, I could do nothing to fix the HQ stretching distortion. Trans Europe Express and Music Non Stop are not affected by it luckily as I explained it in the paragraph above. Only the tempo was a bit wonky, so I fixed it by reducing the tempo by 3% on FL Studio which stretches the audio much smoother without any distortion.
After fixing those issues and mixing the two sources, I put some EQs on the two sources except for Pocket Calculator where I already had done it.
__________________________________________
*Copyright Disclaimer: Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.*
