Besançon, France (04-Jul-94)

NOTE: This improved edition uses a good deal more of the alternate camera than other recent items.

BOB DYLAN
Palais Des Sports
Besançon, France
July 4, 1994
DVDylan ID #454.mu2
Masters Series 144.mu2

3-5/5-/4/5/4
8-14/13/11/14/11 (avg. 12.25 B)
Right balcony 40˙ & Left floor 40˙
1:37:33:02
PAL

DIFFERENCES & IMPROVEMENTS OVER D454.msu:
-incorporated footage from MS-030 to fill missing and defective parts of MS-144
-different top and track means

PERFORMANCE/HIGHLIGHTS/SPECIAL MOMENTS:
-impassioned vocals, with a spitfire “Tangled Up In Blue”
-cool interplay between Dylan & Jackson on “I'll Be Your Baby Tonight”
-sweet harp on “Lady Came From Baltimore” & “Mama, You Been On My Mind”
-chilling “Masters Of War” & “God Knows”
-beautifully sung “Mama, You Been On My Mind”
-popping sound during “Under The Red Sky” sounds like gunshot and seems to startle
Dylan

DISTANCE/POSITION: 8-14 Right balcony 40˙& left floor 40˙(good panning and zooming, but mostly centered on Dylan with rare obstructions; camera wanders from time to time)

AUDIO: 13 (B+/A-)
LB-1059: 10 (LB-rating B-: fair)(for clipped start and transition to song 7)
I.D Witheld: 12 (Disc author’s rating is B+/not listed at LB; used for songs 1-6)
LB-4136: 15 (LB-rating A: superb (for songs 7-15)

STEADINESS:
MS-144: 9 (songs 1-6 rather shaky; songs 7-15 steadier)
MS-030: 10 (steadier than MS-144)

HEADS/OBSTRUCTIONS:
MS-144: 14 (rarely obstructed)
MS-030: 11 (sometimes obstructed)

FOCUS:
MS-144: 10 (red colors grainy and sometimes over=exposed/blue colors sharper; adequate light; soft focus; camera goes in and out of focus occasionally and there are some tracking problems during “Masters Of War”)
MS-030: 11 (good color, adequate light, better focused than MS-144; no tracking problems

EDITING: MS-030 clips and stills used to fill missing song, parts of songs and defective parts (see setlist details); audio sources edited as needed for a/v sync and to fill missing parts of best audio source (LB-4136)

Concert #577 of The Never-Ending Tour
Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar)
Bucky Baxter (pedal steel guitar & electric slide guitar)
John Jackson (guitar)
Tony Garnier (bass)
Winston Watson (drums & percussion)

Deepest gratitude for filming the show to “THE TWO DAVES” & A.N.
Transferred & disseminated by COOPS2009
Thanks for recording the audio to THE UNIDENTIFIED TAPERS
Audio shared by OUTSIDETLAW & BLINDWILLY
Special thanks for French translation assistance to SYLVIE
Edited, sound upgraded & authored by YASSOU

VIDEO SOURCES & LINEAGE:
MS-144 (D454.m)
TAPER: “The Two Daves”
Transferred & disseminated by Coops2009
D5 A8 S6 H7 F8 SR
88 mins
VIDEO : Mpeg-2, 720 x 576. 25 fps, pic ratio 4.3. PAL
AUDIO : AC3 Dolby Digital, 48000 Hz, stereo 38.4 kb/s
EC30 tapes transferred to PC via a Panasonic NV-W1 professional triple standard vhs machine. Files authored to DVD with Tempgenc DVD Works Author 4
MS-144 > hd > MPEG Streamclip 1.9.2 > dv > iMovie6.0.3

MS-030 (D994.m)
TAPER: A.N.
Transferred & disseminated by Coops2009
D3 A8 S7 H8 F8 BL2D
1:35
PAL DVD VOB format
MPEG-2
Sys bitrate 100080 kb/s VBR
PAL 720.576 4:3 ratio
pic/s 25.ooo frames/s 25.000 fields/s 25.00
"transferred from the original camera
a National Panasonic Super-VHS NVS-85B camcorder
to a LG DRT389H DVD Recorder in HQ mode using a super-vhs transfer
cable. The disc then menued and prepared in TempgenC DVD Author 4.3 "

AUDIO SOURCES (see LB notes below for individual lineages where known):
LB-1059: used for clipped start of show and transition to song 7
I.D. WITHHELD: used for beginning through song 6 except for intro & clipped start of 1st song; voice a little harsh, but sound fuller than LB-1059.
LB-4136: used for transition to song 7 and songs 7-15
All sources > hd > flac files > Toast Titanium 11.0.4 > SD II disk images > iMovie 6.0.3.

DVD PRODUCTION PROCESS:
Produced by yassou on a MacBook Pro running El Capitan 10.11.1 and Apple software.
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)

COOPS2009 NOTES FOR MS-144 (D454.m):
Remember even if you have some of the Daves films already that at best your copies will be 2 generations poorer than anything in the Masters series, so get em all. These will be with original sound though many will feature as sound upgrades eventually with my two mates Yassou and Madhasse helping out

COOPS2009 NOTES FOR MS-030 (D994.m)
(see VIDEO SOURCES & LINEAGE)

LB NOTES FOR LB-1059:
Taper: unidentified
100 minutes
LB rating: B-
Shared by OutsideTLaw via trade
DAT recording
downloaded from a.b.m.s.d. 06/03, good sound, tinny and hollow and harsh; limits so clips at -9db on top and -7db on the bottom
drop/cut between cdrs

NOTES FOR I.D. WITHHELD (not listed at LB):
TAPER: identification withheld; a recording so far not torrented.
98 minutes
Rating: B+ (disc author’s rating/not listed at LB)
Shared by Blindwilly via private torrent
1st song ("Jokerman") slightly clipped
? -> cassette master -> DAT(32 kHz) - clone -> m-audio delta audiophile 2496 -> Wavelab -> ssrc -> cdwave, tracking -> tlh
I did not harm the sound of the recording in any way

LB NOTES FOR LB-4361:
Taper: unidentified
59 minutes (incomplete)
LB rating: A
Shared by OutsideTLaw via trade
DAT AUD [possibly Sennheiser mics] > DAT > CD > WAV > FLAC, incomplete master, This is not the same recording as LB-1059, LB-4033 or LB-4034 which are all from the same, DAT recording with LB-4034 coming directly from the master., There is another recording of the show in limited ciculation, from an analog recording., I did not harm the sound of the recording in any way., Please retain this info file as a marker for this lossless set and if you spread it, please list it in the description to avoid others getting duplicates., lineage updated:, DAT AUD [Sennheiser MKE 2002 > Sony TCD D-3] > DAT > CD > EAC > WAV > FLAC; bittorrent download 12/06; excellent sound [A]; different recording than LB-1059 with different crowd at begin of d1t1; this is an upgrade with warmer, fuller, better sound; mic noise and level fluctuation t6 3:50