The Police
M.E.N. Arena, Manchester, UK
Wednesday 18th June, 2008

Lineage:

GreenMachine GM-Pro Mics (left mic only, right mic faulty)
 -> GM Battery Box
 -> iRiver H120 (Rockbox v061206)
 -> SoundForge (v8.0d) (trim WAV, normalise, fade in/out, copy LH channel to RH)
 -> CDWave (v1.95.1) (tracking)
 -> TLH (v2.4.1)
 -> FLAC (level 8)
 -> Foobar2000 (v0.9.4.2) (tagging) 

Source: Audience recording from centre of floor, 19 rows back
Taper: PABBY
Duration: 1hr 42m 16s
Size: 269 MB (LH channel recording only - see notes below)


Track list:

01. Bring On The Night
02. Message In A Bottle
03. Walking On The Moon
04. Demolition Man
05. Voices Inside My Head
06. When The World Is Running Down, You Make The Best Of What's Still Around
07. Don't Stand So Close To Me
08. Driven To Tears
09. Hole In My Life
10. Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
11. Wrapped Around Your Finger
12. De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
13. Invisible Sun
14. Can't Stand Losing You / Reggatta De Blanc
15. (Encore Break #1)
16. Roxanne
17. King Of Pain
18. So Lonely
19. Every Breath You Take
20. (Encore Break #2)
21. Next To You


Notes:

I had a major mic disaster prior to the Manchester shows. The right-hand mic of
the set I eventually used went faulty a while ago, so a new set were promptly
ordered as replacements. Unfortunately, and unbelievably, they never arrived in
time, so panic set in a week before the shows in order to source new mics.
I obviously failed miserably to obtain a new set (the UK seems to be devoid of
mic suppliers suitable for stealthing), so I had to record both shows using my
single working mic.

My seat was positioned centre stage, 19 rows back, perfectly triangulated with
the main speaker stacks for a great recording, but wasted on just the single mic.
I was lucky in that the people around me never sang a word all night and just
enjoyed a tremendous show, so all you hear is the band performing and
enthusiastic clapping between songs.

I honestly believe that, given the above circumstances, I couldn't have nailed a
better recording than I have done here.

SoundForge was used for trimming the start/end of the WAV, normalisation, adding
fade-in/out and copying the left channel to replace the missing right channel
audio. No equalisation was performed at any stage.

Enjoy!

- PABBY Sat 05th Jul, 2008 07:56 GMT

    length     expanded size   cdr  WAVE  probs   filename
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     5:23.65      57130124     ---   --    -xx    Track02.flac
     5:48.54      61514252     ---   --    -xx    Track03.flac
     4:30.28      47693900     ---   --    -xx    Track04.flac
     1:36.19      16979132     ---   --    -xx    Track05.flac
     5:27.28      57748700     ---   --    -xx    Track06.flac
     4:48.04      50812652     ---   --    -xx    Track07.flac
     6:13.17      65837228     ---   --    -xx    Track08.flac
     4:57.43      52491980     ---   --    -xx    Track09.flac
     4:49.69      51141932     ---   --    -xx    Track10.flac
     6:12.25      65679644     ---   --    -xx    Track11.flac
     4:43.34      50001212     ---   --    -xx    Track12.flac
     5:11.70      55025084     ---   --    -xx    Track13.flac
     6:34.45      69607484     ---   --    -xx    Track14.flac
     2:20.38      24785420     ---   --    -xx    Track15.flac
     6:33.11      69351116     ---   --    -xx    Track16.flac
     5:05.01      53804396     ---   --    -xx    Track17.flac
     7:31.02      79561148     ---   --    -xx    Track18.flac
     5:30.54      58339052     ---   --    -xx    Track19.flac
     1:34.60      16722764     ---   --    -xx    Track20.flac
     4:10.09      44121372     -b-   --    -xx    Track21.flac
   102:16.74    1082565532 B                      (totals for 21 files, 0.2610 overall compression ratio)