** AT WIFE'S REQUEST **
The Police
Key Arena
Seattle, Washington
June 7, 2007
Soundboard/ALD - Phase corrected revision
Lineage for edits: FLAC > foobar2000 (combine tracks) > Audacity > WAV > foobar2000 > FLAC (level
Setlist
01. Message In A Bottle
02. Synchronicity II
03. Spirits In The Material World
04. Voices Inside My Head / When The World Is Running Down You Make The Best Of What's Still Around
05. Don't Stand So Close To Me
06. Driven To Tears
07. Walking On The Moon
08. Truth Hits Everybody
09. Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
10. Wrapped Around Your Finger
11. The Bed's Too Big Without You
12. De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
13. Invisible Sun
14. Walking In Your Footsteps
15. Can't Stand Losing You
16. Roxanne
17. King Of Pain
18. So Lonely
19. Every Breath You Take
20. Next To You
Running Time: 118:07
Band:
Sting - bass guitar, vocals
Andy Summers - guitar
Stewart Copeland - drums
Originally shared on dime by luck1106 on March 12, 2008
Revision Notes:
The original audio had phase cancellation issues, producing a very thin sound because the low frequencies from each of
the stereo speakers were destructively interfering with each other. I corrected this by inverting the left channel. I
also shifted the time alignment of the channels by a few samples (varying amounts) to fine-tune the phase using the
automatic phase correction feature of Audacity.
The levels of the right channel were slightly greater than the left. The first half of the show was imbalanced by about
0.7 dB and the second half of the show was imbalanced by about 1.3 dB. I balanced the levels by attenuating the right.
The levels of both channels were running a bit hot with some minor clipping, so I then lowered the levels of everything
by 1.5 dB, and applied the clip fix feature at a threshold of 98%.
Note that 1 day after the original source from luck1106 was shared, hildie shared a different phase corrected version.
This is not that. hildie's version additionally "remixed in station control room. Presence band was added to remove the
some of NR? and to add ambience". Unlike hildie, I have not EQed the audio.
There is also a matrix of the ALD source and some audience recordings, which was done by thir13en, and was actually
shared on dime before the raw ALD source was posted by luck1106. The original matrix from thir13en did not fix the
phase cancellation in the ALD audio before the sources were mixed, so there's another version which sort of fixes it
by inverting one of the channels of thir13en's matrix. The issue is after you've mixed sources together, you can't
really go back and perfectly fix the phase issues. Inverting one of the channels sort of works in this case to fix
thir13en's matrix because the ALD source was weighted so much greater than the audience recordings when thir13en mixed
them together. Ideally though, the matrix would be remixed from the raw (phase corrected) sources.
-ledwhofloyd (Ross), June 2022
