Cardiff, Wales (27-Jun-06)

2-4+/5+/4+/5-/4+
5-12/15/12/13/12 (avg. 13.00 A-)
Right Center Rear Stands
1:38:54:05
PAL
DIFFERENCES OVER & IMPROVEMENTS TO D684.m:
-sound upgraded
-filled obstructed song and parts of one song with stills
-different title & track menus

DIFFERENCE/Users/georgespanos/Desktop/MS -185 Cardiff 2006-06-27/D-2 iMov + mov/MS-185.msu:D684.msu(iMov) (D-2).iMovieProject/Media/MS-185 (D-1).dvS OVER & IMPROVEMENTS TO D684.suu:
-sourced from the master video files
-split into two discs to achieve higher bitrate
-did not use distracting special effects
-different title & track menus

PERFORMANCE/HIGHLIGHTS/SPECIAL MOMENTS:
-a very enthusiastic crowd (the disc author was in it)
_setlist heavy on 60’s songs with a few newer ones
-Dylan’s keyboard playing gave the mid-60s songs an Al Kooper feel
_Dylan in good voice and singing expressively
-tasty harp on “She Belongs To Me” and “Ballad Of A Thin Man”
-Herron’s fiddle on “Absolutely Sweet Marie” quite fine and Dylan’s keyboards lent a
distinct carnival flavor
-A tender “Girl Of The North Country”
-a rollicking “Summer Days”
-crowd sings along on choruses of “Like A Rolling Stone”
-menacing lead by Freeman on “All Along he Watchtower” (sounds a bit like Clapton)

DISTANCE/POSITION: 5-12 (right center rear stands) (nicely shot; filmer had a good vantage point in the stands at the rear of the arena; kept on Dylan mostly knees up while singing zooming out and panning to feature all players

AUDIO: 15 (excellent LB-3857)

STEADINESS: 12 (jittery at times, but generally steady)

HEADS/OBSTRUCTIONS: 13 (fans occasionally passed or stood briefly in front of camera)

FOCUS: 12 (color and light adequate; focus on the soft side/distance and a rather dark venue probably factors)

EDITING: minimal; stills used to fill cut or obstructed parts

Concert # 1844 of The Never-Ending Tour
Bob Dylan (vocals, keyboard, harp)
Stu Kimball (acoustic and electric rhythm and some lead guitar)
Denny Freeman (lead electric guitar)
Donnie Herron (violin, mandolin, pedal steel guitar, lap steel guitar)
Tony Garnier (electric & standup bass)
George Recile (drums & percussion)

Filmed by “THE TWO DAVES”
Transferred & disseminated by COOPS2009
Audio recorded by AN UNIDENTIFIED TAPER
Audio shared by OUTSIDETLAW
Edited, sound upgraded & authored by YASSOU

VIDEO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
Filmed by “The Two Daves”
Transferred & disseminated by COOPS2009
dvdylan.com rating: 43444 center balcony 99 minutes (also contains “Maggie’s Farm” for London (21-Nov-05) concert
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.
vob files > hd > MPEG Streamclip 1.9.2

COOPS2009 NOTES FOR MS-185:
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

AUDIO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
LB-3857 (“Trust Your Ears” recording)
Taper: Unidentified
Shared by OutsideTLaw via trade
LB rating: A
no info on recording or post-processing
CDs > hd > Toast Titanium 11.0.4 > SD II disk images > iMovie 6.0.3

RELATED NOTE FOR LB-4274 (“Can’t Read” recording)
In comparison to trust your ears LB-3857 this is very similar sound with slightly fuller sound and slightly less warm but also slightly whinier maybe on the keyboard; because of complaints from this taper about the above comments, another side by side comparison was done by 2 experienced reviewers who both agreed and found that this is not as harsh as the MM LB-3857 but not as natural sounding as trust your ears LB-3857; this does not sound like a csb mic recording as it lacks the warmth those mics generally produce plus there is an overall whininess especially in the upper end of the keyboard and percussion so that overall this has a less natural sound; the assumption is that it sounds this way because of the extra "mastering" and not from the mics; excellent sound [A-]

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)