Guns N' Roses
1992-11-25, Venezuela, Caracas, Poliedro de Caracas
"Coup D'etat"
Speed correction, artwork by Waemoth
Remastering, Info.txt, Meta Tags by AppetiteForMeows
FLAC (Unknown SBD Source) > Audacity (Speed Correction) > XRecode III (Divided Channels) > Adobe Audition (Remastering) > FLAC > AIMP Tag Editor
Total Length: 01:57:18, 478mb
Setlist:
01. Intro
02. Nightrain
03. Mr. Brownstone
04. Live And Let Die
05. Axl & Slash Rant
06. Double Talkin' Jive
07. Instrumental Jam #1
08. Voodoo Child
09. Civil War
10. Wild Horses
11. Patience
12. Axl Rant
13. Bad Obsession
14. Welcome To The Jungle
15. Yesterdays
16. Axl Piano Solo
17. November Rain
18. Band Introductions
19. Matt Drum Solo
20. You Could Be Mine
21. Slash Guitar Solo
22. Instrumental Jam #2
23. Godfather Theme
24. Sweet Child O' Mine
25. Slash Rant
26. Only Women Bleed
27. Knockin' On Heaven's Door
28. Mother
29. Paradise City
Notes #1: very difficult project. At first I worked on it by myself. The result was shit, because the main problem with speed and pitch was still
there: I suck at speed correction. Problems with speed and pitch also didn't let plugins I used work properly. Luckily Waemoth did amazing speed correction for this project. Without it nothing would be good. Whole speed correction process took a week.
"I'm comparing [Caracas speed] with Seattle, Chile and Argentina" - Waemoth
...Remastering...
There were 3 different fragments of audio which had different frequency characteristics, noise level and etc.
At first speed corrected audio's channels were divided because recording itself apparently is mono sourced.
For the 1st I took left channel (But DTJ silence was patched with right channel, you can hear it), for 2nd-3rd I took right channel. Those had the best quality.
Then 2nd and 3rd fragments were applied de-hum. All 3 were de-noised as much as possible without quality loss.
There was more stuff I did which is less important so I won't tell about it.
In the end I applied compressor to 1st and 3rd fragment. To all of the fragments were applied some plugin to make a kind of slight fake stereo, Saphira and reverb.
Since I had 3 divided sessions (1 for each fragment) I had to make another one to put everything together. Here I edited audio a bit, tried to match loudness and tracked everything.
The unfixable (at least for me) problems: the audible rest of noise (can't be fixed without quality loss), some distortion (Noise reduction artefacts which I also tried to avoid and fix) and problems with loudness instability.
Notes #2: In the absence of a suitable venue, the show is played outside one (!) in a parking lot. The biggest show ever staged in Venezuela.
GnR went on stage at 10:45 and played for almost 2 hours. After "Live And Let Die" Slash talks to the crowd and tells them that it seems
that they are into having some good time. Then Axl asks Slash what we wants to play and he responds "something rowdy". Axl makes
then some funny impersonations of some politicians before introducing "Double Talkin' Jive". The American, Soviet and Venezuelan
flag is in the background during "Civil War". Teddy is presented first as Jay Leno. "Sweet Child O' Mine" is played without any kind of
intro. This show was possibly broadcasted on TV, but there's no known bootleg of it.
BACKSTAGE: While in Venezuela, Matt takes a taxi into the jungle in search of cocaine. The day after the show, the 80-person party leave Venezuela in the evening - just hours before the country was thrown into turmoil by an air-based military coup. In the ensuing chaos, only one of the band's cargo planes is able to take off, leaving over half of their equipment and several crew members stranded.
BIG THANKS to Waemoth for his amazing speed correction!