Sun City remaster

I thought we agreed not to feed the trolls...?

Yep. Forget Ctits.

Well Well Well.. This is interesting Ctour or whatever the hell you are calling yourself this week. Taking credit for someone elses work.. What a Tosser..


mercuryman12
Starving Artist

Join Date: Jan 2015
Posts: 34


Cool
NEW! QUEEN: Sun City 10/19/1984
This is a thing I did yesterday for myself, but maybe somebody else will find it interesting too...

Short version of what I've done
- speed correction
- hiss reduction
- restoring of distorted parts
- click removal
- removing of repeating segments

Queen
Super Bowl, Sun City, Bophuthatswana, South Africa
October 19, 1984

This wonderful quality recording has been shared by Anthony (City-in-the-sun) on Queenzone.com in 2 mp3 files, the first one (side A) in 2009 and the second one
(side B) in 2015 - a huge thanks for this!

However these mp3 files had several problems - the first part played too slow, had a notable amount of background hiss. The second part played too fast, also has a notable amount of background hiss, and has several digital errors - some small gaps (skips) and also some repeating segments, mainly in Hammer To Fall, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Bohemian Rhapsody and most notably Radio Ga Ga (I'm pretty sure everybody noticed "through teeteeteeteenage").

The first part already speed--corrected by Ale Solan and shared in 2009. According to his notes, he took the original mp3 file, corrected the speed in GoldWave, split the tracks and encoded them to FLAC level 8 using Trader's Little Helper. I listened to his version and I liked its speed, but he didn't touch the hiss. I hate hiss. So I took his flac files, made a one huge wav file of them, removed some of the hiss
(not all - I am always trying to not deform the sound too much) in Cool Edit Pro and created new wav files from it. The new wav files were encoded in Trader's Little
Helper to FLAC level 8.

The second side/file was a bigger challange. I had to first correct the speed, then I removed a part of the hiss, everything again in Cool Edit Pro. Last songs are
distorted because the tape was probably transferred too loud, thankfully CEP has a nice feature called "restored clipped audio", I really like the results. Then the whole file was split into several files (one file for each song) and in
every single track I removed all pops and clicks I was able to find. In various songs, mainly in Hammer To Fall, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Bohemian Rhapsody and Radio Ga Ga I removed all repeated segments. The final wav files were loaded into Trader's Little Helper and encoded to FLAC level 8.

I have added a little bonus an interview from Irish radio from 1986 about Sun City, I have again reduced the hiss and corrected the speed, this interview is added as a bonus to disc 2.

Tracklist

CD 1

01. Machines (or 'Back To Humans') [tape intro]
02. Tear It Up
03. Tie Your Mother Down
04. Under Pressure
05. Somebody To Love
06. The March of The Black Queen (improvisation)
07. My Fairy King (improvisation)
08. Killer Queen
09. Seven Seas of Rhye
10. Keep Yourself Alive
11. Liar
12. Impromptu
13. It's A Hard Life
14. Dragon Attack
15. Now I'm Here (cut)

CD 2

01. Is This The World We Created?
02. Love Of My Life (cut)
03. Another One Bites The Dust
04. We Will Rock You (improvisation)
05. Hammer To Fall
06. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
07. Bohemian Rhapsody
08. Radio Ga Ga
09. I Want To Break Free
10. Jailhouse Rock
11. We Will Rock You
12. We Are The Champions (cut)
13. Bonus - Interview with Brian and Roger about Sun City

Bootleggers - don't you dare to bootleg this !!!

Links
https://1fichier.com/?epzpi28dgc
https://1fichier.com/?b05d1pg39o

Big thanks to Anthony & Wendy

http://www.guitars101.com/forums/f145/new-queen-sun-city-10-19-1984-a-193447.html

I'm speechless.

No words. (Even if I have a little word for him...)
From his last action you can understand how sincere was his "apology".

Someone clearly has mental problems. I do not pity him for that though.

I think he just gets his kicks from acting like a Bell-end..

I skimmed that message. He simply copy/pasted Pittrek's notes.

The first sentence looks like he's taking credit for the work - but it's simply a copy/paste.

Conveniently forgetting to credit Pittrek before cutting and pasting..

Yeah - good thing you got that info out there!

He seems to be trying to establish himself as Guitar101's resident Queen Guru..

He's simply pathetic.

In fact, I'm feeling like I shouldn't have said anything now, as I feel he relishes the attention..

That been said, He's also trying to pass this off as lossless.. He deleted the line where Pittrek says it's sourced from mp3.. I've pointed that out on Guitars101 too..

No, moonie you were right to let us know that he was stealing pittrek's credit.
But other than that, we shouldn't talk to him anymore,
even if only to address a death threat.

Yeah, Those death threats and the like were way over the top.. Like you say, best just to ignore the guy.. So I'll shut up now..