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So, here is my recording of Progfest 95.  Made on a Sony D8 using a Radio Shack (don't laugh) 33-1065 microphone, which was pretty well regarded by the taping community at the time.  Unfortunately, for at least two shows (Ars Nova and Deus Ex Machina) I sat next to a douchebag.  

As such, I would recommend you listen to the entire concert once, then remove the "talk" sections.  There's a couple spots where I wish I knew how to use one channel to partially remove the dbag.  You'll hear another couple guys telling him to shut up.  (if you know how, with Audacity, post how and I'll do it)

Anyhow, I'd say the quality of this concert was pretty good, objectively speaking, and ignoring the dbag.  Gain is good, when listening to it with headphones I can place where I sat.  Yes, it still holds up.

Why post this 14 years later?  My original goal was 10 - if it hadn't been turned into an album by that point, it was never going to be.  I wanted to share this, but managed to misplace my recording to CD from DAT (I did find one, and posted it several months ago).  So, finally getting off my tuchus, I bought a DAT player, and using the optical (toslink) cable imported it at 48khz into a Powermac G4 running Audacity 1.2.6.  I still wish that a full version of all the Progfests were made available, so here's my part.  Funny that of all the bands, only one used the opportunity to create a CD (Solaris).  Including them not to wish any financial harm to them (it's already been posted here) but because the mix was different than the CDs.

Very little editing has been done here, I think the only thing I deleted was a couple minutes of silence, and added track listings.  I also tried to cut where it made sense to.  On a few I cut after most of the applause, others had talk during the applause so were cut appropriately.

Apologies for the unknown songs - feel free to post with corrections.

Poster: Trex


Thus complete sets of:
Pendragon
Deux Ex Machina
Ars Nova
Landberk