Aphex Twin Aphex Twin @ Melt 2006 - some new clips

Howdy,

some nice guy posted his digi-cam clips of this gig:

http://www.youtube.com/user/cursedjerk

He has more of this gig, ive contacted him, and he said, he may upload it somewhere in original digi-cam quality (its always better than youtube's 32kbps/22kHz/mono :)). Stay tuned for more details.

Morover - since those clips audio quality seems to be a bit better than our (watmm's) bootleg recording (no audio clipping on to high input volume!) - maybe someone could mix'n'match them - and produce enhanced version of the bootleg ? :)

cool

awesome

i didnt thought that there would be anything like this surfacing

he played alberto balsalm live. awesome.

are there news on the subject?

  Caustic said:

he played alberto balsalm live. awesome.

lol @ richard for playing a fanboy track.

  Barricade said:

  Caustic said:

he played alberto balsalm live. awesome.

lol @ richard for playing a fanboy track.

it's a change from all the hiphop instrumentals and old jungle tracks.

fanboy track??? How about just "a good song"?

He always plays at least one.

When I saw him he played Analogue Bubblebath and Mont St Michel

props on the Boston Legal av,wingus.

alberto balsam is amazing, amazing and amazing

does rdj have enough fans to have tracks considered fanboy tracks

only on the true inner circle i suppose

  tht! tne said:

does rdj have enough fans to have tracks considered fanboy tracks

only on the true inner circle i suppose

my his tracks are my his children

thank you that's very gay

no ur a fgt lol

no you missed it

there's a new script to make derogatory gay become happy gay

so when i said gay you read gay but really i meant gay, k?

gay y0!

Hi Gentlebeings,

in terms of those clips - there is 11 of them (5 are on youtube already) and this nice guy is going to upload them somewhere around beginning of next week. Hopefully (if each of them is 2 minutes on average) we will get then almost 25% of video from this great gig.

Anyway, i took what we have on youtube right now, and tried to play a bit with original audio file, patching it with the youtube clip(s). I took the first one with Alberto Balsalm being played, and patched an excerpt of original melt file. See the result in the attachements (original version named melt_orig_file.mp3, patched version - well you guess it :)).

Patched part starts around 2m05sec.

Some comments:

- audiacity used, just played with vol. envelopes,

- original is 192kbps, my patched version is 96kbps (and mono in patched part), as the youtube only supports 32kbps/mono - so no point to up-sample when doing a 'prototype' :)

- i believe the clips, once we got them will be stereo, and something better than 32kbps :).

- ive not played with equilizer/low-high pass filters, although i should probably. this results in patched part being very 'unsoft', with lots of details on higher frequencies, while the original recording is quite 'blurred'. But for someone keen in audio matters i dont believe it shall be the problem :).

And now we come to the point. There will be 11 of those clips.

And it would be really cool, if someone with more audio experience would take a look at them, and tried to patch the original recording with them, of course preserving all the rules of audio editing (like normalizing volume levels, some smooth fade-outs/ins, equalizing a bit :)). As i said, im not audio geek, moreover its hard for me to find that amount of time, that probably might be needed to do it well :).

Any volunteers ? :)

Ah, one more comment: in my whole naivness ive tried to programmaticaly reconstruct clipped areas (due to too high recordin vol.) in the file. I took my belowed java, wrote a small app, played a bit with recording envelope, found a way to 'mark' clipped areas - as for some reason they are not flat in this bootleg. Then i tried to reconstruct the curves based on neighbourghood, and doing some quadratic approximation first, then sin approximation, and finally some copy'n'paste from neighbourghood areas that 'seemed' to look just fine - but with no good results. Actually all my output was much worse than original recordin :). So I simply gave up. If someone knows some neat alrogithms that may help, please share :). Seems that local reconstruction is just not enough.

Cheers

tomaswoj

melt_orig_file.mp3Fetching info...

melt_patch_file.mp3Fetching info...

nice thx a lot for you efforts

whats songs is he playing in the clips????

for me it's funny i complained about the download manager not being up, now it's weeks later and i haven't downloaded anything