Tokyo, Japan (04-Apr-16)

Center balcony
3-5/5+/5/5/5+
8-14/15/14/14/15 (avg. 14.50 A/A+)
1:44:47:10
NTSC

PERFORMANCE/HIGHLIGHTS/SPECIAL MOMENTS:
-strong vocals
-excellent instrumentation, especially Donny Herron's ethereal effects
-highly appreciative audience

DISTANCE/POSITION: 8-15 (filmer has an excellent vantage point, skillfully panning & zooming to show all players)

AUDIO: 15 (excellent Hide recording)

STEADINESS: 14 (quite steady throughout)

HEADS/OBSTRUCTIONS: 14 (virtually unobstructed)

FOCUS: 15 (excellent color, adequate light and sharp focus)

EDITING: used stills for opening titles; used video soundtrack to fill out end applause

VIDEO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
commercial blu-ray (Nanker Records)
taper & production info unknown
shared by Hide
transferred by yassou
BDMV files > hd > Toast Titanium 11.0.4 > MP4 files > iMovie 6.0.3

AUDIO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
Taper: Hide
shared by HIDE via DropBox
Source: DPA 4061's > MMA6000 > SONY PCM-M10 (24bit/48kHz)
Lineage: SD card > PC > WAV (24bit/48kHz) > Soundforge (Edit, Sampling rate convert to 16bit/44.1kHz) > TLH > FLAC
flac files > hd > Toast Titanium 11.0.4 > SD II disk images > iMovie 6.0.3

HIDE’S REQUEST REGARDING HIS RECORDINGS:
“I don’t want to upload my recordings on bittorrent sites anymore because a Japanese bootleg shop has sold most of my recordings. There are also many debates regarding me & my recordings at a Japanese SNS site. So, I don’t want to share with those people. But I will provide my recordings on these great DVD/Blu-ray projects!”

DVD PRODUCTION PROCESS: Audio and video assets edited in iMovie 6.0.3; authored, multiplexed and burned to VIDEO_TS folder in iDVD 7.1.2 (Professional Quality 2-pass variable bit rate encoding)