07.06.2007
USA, Seattle, Key Arena
Soundboard/ALD - Phase corrected revision
exc. Soundboard/ALD

01. Message In A Bottle [5:09]
02. Synchronicity II [6:29]
03. Spirits In The Material World [3:27]
04. Voices Inside My Head / When The World Is Running Down You Make The Best Of What's Still Around [7:13]
05. Don't Stand So Close To Me [4:55]
06. Driven To Tears [5:27]
07. Walking On The Moon [6:16]
08. Truth Hits Everybody [3:45]
09. Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic [4:59]
10. Wrapped Around Your Finger [6:09]
11. The Bed's Too Big Without You [6:01]
12. De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da [4:19]
13. Invisible Sun [5:19]
14. Walking In Your Footsteps [5:09]
15. Can't Stand Losing You [8:18]
16. Roxanne [8:53]
17. King Of Pain [5:47]
18. So Lonely [7:22]
19. Every Breath You Take [8:01]
20. Next To You [4:59]

Total Running Time: [118:07]

Soundboard/ALD - Phase corrected revision

Lineage for edits: FLAC > foobar2000 (combine tracks) > Audacity > WAV > foobar2000 > FLAC (level 8)

Band:
Sting - bass guitar, vocals
Andy Summers - guitar
Stewart Copeland - drums

Originally shared on dime by luck1106 on March 12, 2008

Revision Notes:
The original audio had phase cancellation issues, producing a very thin sound because the low frequencies from each of the stereo speakers were destructively interfering with each other. I corrected this by inverting the left channel. I  also shifted the time alignment of the channels by a few samples (varying amounts) to fine-tune the phase using the automatic phase correction feature of Audacity.

The levels of the right channel were slightly greater than the left. The first half of the show was imbalanced by about 0.7 dB and the second half of the show was imbalanced by about 1.3 dB. I balanced the levels by attenuating the right.

The levels of both channels were running a bit hot with some minor clipping, so I then lowered the levels of everything by 1.5 dB, and applied the clip fix feature at a threshold of 98%. 

Note that 1 day after the original source from luck1106 was shared, hildie shared a different phase corrected version. This is not that. hildie's version additionally "remixed in station control room. Presence band was added to remove the some of NR? and to add ambience". Unlike hildie, I have not EQed the audio.

There is also a matrix of the ALD source and some audience recordings, which was done by thir13en, and was actually shared on dime before the raw ALD source was posted by luck1106. The original matrix from thir13en did not fix the phase cancellation in the ALD audio before the sources were mixed, so there's another version which sort of fixes it by inverting one of the channels of thir13en's matrix. The issue is after you've mixed sources together, you can't really go back and perfectly fix the phase issues. Inverting one of the channels sort of works in this case to fix thir13en's matrix because the ALD source was weighted so much greater than the audience recordings when thir13en mixed them together. Ideally though, the matrix would be remixed from the raw (phase corrected) sources. -ledwhofloyd (Ross), June 2022