John McLaughlin and the 4th Dimension
October 5th, 2007
Toronto Ontario, Canada @ Massey Hall
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Disc One:	Set 1:
01 - Raju (12:16.760)
02 - Jean Pierre (Miles Davis) (08:36.556)
03 - John talks (02:17.616)
04 - Nostalgia (07:42.509)
05 - Hijacked (10:48.152)

Disc Two:	Set2:
01 - Senor CS (Carlos Santana) (12:08.181)
02 - The Unknown Dissident (06:59.045)
03 - Five Peace Band (12:57.062)
04 - Maharina (07:23.390)
05 - Mother Tongues (16:36.402)
(encore)
06 - Light On The Edge Of The World (07:01.699)

John McLaughlin: guitar
Gary Husband: keyboards and "jungle kit"
Hadrien Feraud: bass
Mark Mondesir: drums  

Track Info:
01 - Raju (unreleased)
02 - Jean Pierre (1980's Miles Davis)
04 - Nostalgia (Mahavishnu, 1984)
05 - Hijacked (on many McLaughlin releases, but also on Hadrien Faraud's self-titled album)
06 - Senor CS (Industrial Zen, 2006)
07 - The Unknown Dissident (Electric Dreams 1978)
08 - Five Peace Band (Shacti)
10 - Mother Tongues (my favorite version of this is on 1989's Live at Royal Festival Hall)
11 - Light on the Edge of the World (Pierro Piccione, originally recorded by Pharoah Sanders)

Taper's Notes:
This was recorded from the floor, center, just under the lip of the first balcony and to the right of the soundboard.  No EQ was applied in post, but some compression and click/crackle removal was used to smooth out levels and lower the nearby clapping.  I edited out some crowd cheering before the last track.  No music was removed whatsoever.  The interplay between Husband and Mondesir on "Mother Tongues" is breath-taking!

Remastering Notes:

1.  I noticed that the average loudness (RMS) was higher for the left channel, yet when actually listening to the recording, the right channel sounded louder to me.  I widened the stereo field a bit and bumped the right channel volume up a couple dB to compensate for this.  McLaughlin's guitar sounds a bit further to the right, as compared to the original recording.  The channels are approximately 20% further apart.

2.  The low end was very boomy on the original recording.  I notched -2dB around 53HZ, the fundamental of Mondesir's kick drum, roled off slightly below 30HZ, and compressed everything between 20-160HZ to even things out.  

3.  I found the highs somewhat distant on the original recording.  (I boosted around 7-10K, and some around 15K to add some air to the cymbals.  Hopefully, this makes things sound closer.  I boosted around 2.5K by around 2dB to give John's guitar more punch.

4.  Removed five loud chair squeaks from various points, with a very narrow parametric EQ.  Bet you can't find them!  I also removed some of the claps that sound more like thuds, thanks to yours truly forgetting he was wearing microphones.  

5.  Added some smooth compression overall, then made sure average loudness values matched between the two channels.