Artist: The Police Title: Arena Royal Date: 13 september 2007 Type: Audience Tour: Reunion 2007/08 Location: Amsterdam Arena, Netherlands Rating: A Catalog: MVD-027 Lineage1: Sony ECM CS10 stereo microphone - iRiver H340 - HDD - FLAC Lineage2: Lineage: MM-MCSM-4 cardioids microphone > MM-EBM Elite Battery / Filter Module (Roll-off frequency: 107 Hz) > iRiver H120 (flashed with Rockbox) > USB > PC > Cool Edit Pro 2.1 > Trader's Little Helper 1.1.1 (Build 90) > FLAC (level 8) ================================= DISC 1 01 Message in a Bottle 02 Synchronicity II 03 Walking On The Moon 04 Voices Inside My Head / When The World Is Running Down 05 Don't Stand So Close To Me 06 Driven To Tears 07 Hole In My Life / Hit The Road Jack 08 Truth Hits Everybody 09 Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic 10 Wrapped Around Your Finger DISC 2 01 De Do Do Do De Da Da Da 02 Invisible Sun 03 Walking In Your Footsteps 04 Can't Stand Losing You / Regatta de Blanc 05 Roxanne -- 06 King Of Pain 07 So Lonely *) 08 Every Breath You Take *) -- 09 Next To You *) total time (1.50.58) ========================= TECHNICAL NOTES Recorded live at the Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam, Netherlands Date: 13 september 2007. Recorded on iRiver H340 using Rockbox, build 070408. Recording format: 44.1 Khz WAV Microphone: Sony ECM CS10 stereo Location1: Pitch, fifth row from the front, a little to the right of the stage Sound enhancement with Soundforge 7.0 / Adobe 2.0 Sound editing with CD Wave editor Flacs created with FLAC frontend 1.7.1 (level 7) For the tracks 7, 8 and 9 disc 2 marked with *) source2 was used Source 2 Taped and released by Rogier. Lineage: MM-MCSM-4 cardioids microphone > MM-EBM Elite Battery / Filter Module (Roll-off frequency: 107 Hz) > iRiver H120 (flashed with Rockbox) > USB > PC > Cool Edit Pro 2.1 > Trader's Little Helper 1.1.1 (Build 90) > FLAC (level 8) Recording location2: section 119, row 15, seat 119. Recorded facing the right side of the stage (Andy's side). ========================= The Band Sting Vocals, bass Andy Summers Guitars Stewart Copeland Drums, percussion ========================= ABOUT THE RECORDING I was standing on a great spot, a little to the right of the stage, with only four rows of people standing in front of me. I had my mike attatched to my cap and pointed it to the right speaker stack. Although the Amsterdam Arena is notorious for it's 'rich reverb' the sound at the front was really good. Some reverb was picked up, but I've never heard the Arena sound this good ;) The only problem was my batterry dying on me. Never happended before, but I got as far as the first half of So Lonely. I keep wishing I hadn't recorded the support act (Fiction Plane), but that's water under the bridge. Luckily I found another source being seeded on DIME. I contacted the taper and he agreed that I used his recording to make this a complete gig. So a big thanks to Rogier for his taping and letting me use his source for the encores! You hear some people cheering and singing. That's what you get standing at the front. But all in all this is a fine recording to my ears. THE TRANSFER PROCES Due to the fact that the battery died, the header of the Wav file was damaged. I succeeded in restoring it and import it as RAW source in Soundforge. After that it was easy to bring out the best of this baby. PREPARING THE RECORDING After the raw transfer I started out to correct the sound. First I reduced some clapping, which gave high peaks. There were a few clippings (only claps) that needed to be corrected. I brought out the bass and a little of the high. I downloaded Rogiers source from DIME unpacked tracks 7, 8 and from disc 2 to Wav and used Adobe Audition to join the sources. The crossover was made after the second refrain, just before 'the Stewart Copeland Show'. I adjusted the volume level and tried to get about the same spectrum, to get as less difference between the sources as possible. ABOUT THE CONCERT The Police are in great form. This is still a world class band! Andy plays a mean guitar, Stewart is battering his drums as ever and Sting's voice seems to be getting stronger and richer with age. They seemed to enjoy themselves and Sting referred to Pinkpop as the start of their career in Europe back in 1979. Present at the concert was Princess Máxima, the wife of Prince Willem Alexander the Dutch heir to the throne. That's why I named this recording Arena Royal. Enjoy The Police in top shape! ARTWORK Artwork is included in the torrent release. I took the pictures myself. DISTRIBUTION Please include FLAC fingerprints when trading. DO NOT TRADE IN LOSSY FORMATS ! DO NOT SELL OR BUY THIS RECORDING ! Prepared by symfan. september, 2007 Info: symfan A T hotmail D O T com - symfan Sun 16th Sep, 2007 13:15 GMT length expanded size cdr WAVE probs filename 5:14.42 55488428 --- -- -xx The Police -Amsterdam070913-101- Message In A Bottle.flac 6:12.44 65724332 --- -- -xx The Police -Amsterdam070913-102- Synchronicity II.flac 5:54.07 62462108 --- -- -xx The Police -Amsterdam070913-103- Walking On The Moon.flac 7:33.48 80022140 --- -- -xx The Police -Amsterdam070913-104- Voices Inside...When The World.flac 4:54.34 51941612 --- -- -xx The Police -Amsterdam070913-105- Don't Stand So Close To Me.flac 5:49.42 61662428 --- -- -xx The Police -Amsterdam070913-106- Driven To Tears.flac 5:40.21 60025436 --- -- -xx The Police -Amsterdam070913-107- Hole In My Life...Hit The Road Jack.flac 4:09.20 43970684 --- -- -xx The Police -Amsterdam070913-108- Truth Hits Everybody.flac 5:06.51 54098396 --- -- -xx The Police -Amsterdam070913-109- Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic.flac 6:12.03 65627340 -b- -- -xx The Police -Amsterdam070913-110- Wrapped Around Your Finger.flac 4:41.69 49730732 --- -- -xx The Police -Amsterdam070913-201- De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da.flac 4:51.39 51424172 --- -- -xx The Police -Amsterdam070913-202- Invisible Sun.flac 4:59.18 52785980 --- -- -xx The Police -Amsterdam070913-203- Walking In Your Footsteps.flac 6:56.15 73417724 --- -- -xx The Police -Amsterdam070913-204- Can't Stand Losing...Regatta De Blanc.flac 9:20.17 98824028 --- -- -xx The Police -Amsterdam070913-205- Roxanne.flac 5:21.40 56718524 --- -- -xx The Police -Amsterdam070913-206- King Of Pain.flac 6:38.05 70219004 --- -- -xx The Police -Amsterdam070913-207- So Lonely.flac 5:47.22 61262588 --- -- -xx The Police -Amsterdam070913-208- Every Breath You Take.flac 5:42.57 60462404 -b- -- -xx The Police -Amsterdam070913-209- Next To You.flac 111:05.69 1175868060 B (totals for 19 files, 0.6933 overall compression ratio)