1991.01.09 Vancouver, BC, Canada

Slayer - Touring the Abyss
1991.01.09 PNE Forum, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Nagranie z publiczności - 16bit 44.1kHz FLAC8

Track listing:
01 Raining Blood 3:19
02 Black Magic 4:08
03 War Ensemble 5:59
04 Blood Red 3:30
05 Postmortem 3:56
06 Skeletons of Society 5:37
07 Seasons in the Abyss 6:48
08 Die by the Sword 4:52
09 Dead Skin Mask 5:05
10 Spirit in Black 5:03
11 Temptation 4:09
12 Hallowed Point 4:28
13 Mandatory Suicide 5:03
14 At Dawn They Sleep 7:35
15 Chemical Warfare 5:41
16 encore break 1 2:40
17 South of Heaven 5:01
18 encore break 2 2:38
19 Angel of Death 6:04

Total Time: 1:31:39

Tom Araya - bass and vocals, Kerry King - guitar, Jeff Hanneman - guitar, Dave Lombardo - drums
Opening acts were Testament and Sepultra.

Audioarchivist notes:
I have a vague recollection of meeting some / most of Slayer. Was it at this show? At a different show, in Seattle, later on? Memory is bad... Girlfriend at the time was a DJ at a college radio station. That's where the comp ticket for this show came from. "Here, go tape this for me. I'll play it on my show..." I think I remember going with a friend on a wintertime blizzard drive to Seattle to pick her up from a Slayer show there, where she had an interview with the band. Did she borrow my walkman for it, even, maybe? Dunno. I did lend it to her for a few shows she recorded herself. Voivod? Some other metal shows? No tapes of that in my library... But, I do remember going up this flight of stairs I think backstage or the hotel to try and find her, and literally walking into Tom Araya as I rounded a staircase corner. Like, thwack, right into him. Big dude... Super cool! "Oh, ya, she's right up there, bud..." when I started to explain myself as her ride home. Death defying drive home in super hazardous conditions. But that's another story. Lived through it!

I did the tape transfer, sending off the files for Leif to do the work of tracking and editing the files to make them presentable for the public. I manually adjusted the tape deck head's azimuth as best as I could for maximum playback clarity of the tapes as they were recorded. I ran the raw transfer files through iZotope RX Advanced 6 and the Azimuth utility, to both fine tune my real-world manual analog azimuth adjustments and to adapt to any drift as well as to account for my head moving the mic in the show. It continually adjusts phase alignment and level balance to try and be as even and centered as possible, and this helped in a couple of places where my head shifted the orientation of the stereo soundstage, locking it into a more central feeling. There was one small glitch in this processing, at the tape flip to side 2, where the un-processed transfer without the iZotope RX azimuth process was used, as well as a small patch in the audience crowd noise sound, to crossfade edit the tape flip, but Leif will have to tell you more about all that stuff! I think there's a little bit of EQ to boost the low end that sucks on the master tapes?

I've never known the P.N.E. Forum building to have decent sound for concerts - I've referred to it as an echo chamber from hell, and this show was no exception, really. It wasn't the worst I've heard there, and my tape captured a good representation of what I remember hearing at the show. I hope you enjoy it...

audioarchivist@hotmail.com

LeifH notes:
Was Tom sick at this show? "I had to go throw up for a second," (after track 8). The band played lots of songs from their new album, Seasons In The Abyss (released October 1990). "We came here to play for you...we didn't come here to listen to you..." Jeff's guitar rig was failing and cuts out a lot during the last song.

The start of side 2/part 2 of the Slayer tape is the raw, unprocessed version of the tape transfer, sans azimuth utility tool. As mentioned there was a small processing glitch, so about 40 seconds of crowd noise and stage banter was patched in before continuing with the azimuth-processed file. I also smoothed out the tape flip by cross-fading some extra crowd noise extracted from another part of the show, filling in the approximate time of a quick tape flip. This should all go unnoticed. This fileset is a 16bit CD ready remastered version of this show with some added bass to boost the lack of low end. There is also a 24bit "raw" version of this concert available.

Source:
Standing centrally front of board > Sony ECM-PC62 Stereo mic in hat > Sony WM D3 Professional Cassette Recording Walkman (Dolby B on CrO2 position) > Sony Metal SR 100 cassette master tapes

Playback: Sony Metal SR 100 cassette masters > Harmon Kardon TD212 (Dolby off Metal bias, azimuth adjusted) > Edirol R-09HR @ 24 bit 96 khz

Mastering:
iZotope RX Advanced 6 [Azimuth utility, adaptive phase alignment and adaptive level matching] > WavePad Masters Edition 6.05 [EQ, amplify, fades, tracking and 16/44 dither/downsample] > FLAC 8 via Trader's Little Helper

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