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Tampa is my last show until next week for the last two in LA. It was a slower day in terms of travel from ATL to Tampa and got to work on tapes before jetting off. Tampa was the first show they actually had screen printed posters at and I was able to score a poster outside the arena. Hung out with my boy Matt from DMLiveWiki prior to the show and was really nice to catch up with him! Also my long time friend, JD who I have been transferring his DAT collection for what seems to be a decade! Side of the stage is definitely the best place to be for recording audio imo. Sound was very good from where I sat and the speakers were directly in front of me. Standard setlist that I have seen for most of this tour. I hope to see Somewhat Damaged at one of the final LA shows. See you in LA next week.

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Hitting the rest of the southeastern dates for the NIN tour. Quick stop home for a bit and then back out to ATL for the next two shows. I met up with my very good friend, Mark from LPLive. Was really nice to catch up with one of my best friends at the show! Saw NIN_Shirts as well before the show too! We had GA pit for this show and we parked in-between the A/B stages. This time, off to the side so that the mics could be positioned better to point at the main stage to capture the sound during the B Stage segments. I was very pleased with the tape for this show and felt like the sound was represented well with what was captured. Again, the setlist was rather the same for the last handful of shows I had seen. Of course during Wish, a pit opened up right next to us and I was bumped around for a few moments. But I don't think you can hear anything with the audio recording. Shot the show in 4K as well and also had some help up in the upper bowl for a good 4K shot of the whole stage! TR has said less and less at these shows, but gave ATL a shout out for being one of the best cities and the hometown of Robin Finck. Huge shout out to Nicky C for sending me an emergency spare of active cables after the Cleveland show where my cable shorted out! Dude overnighted them and everything so I could capture the last NIN shows I am attending with my favorite mics. So, huge thank you for going above and beyond!

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Quick turnover from the night before in Raleigh with taking a flight early morning to get to Nashville. I met up with a few tapers before the show, Geordy and ToolDVN! Really nice to hang out with them and talk shop. Met up with a few other fans as well, whom I haven't seen in years! I was on the floor for this show and again, it's very hard with the stacks coming from the main stage during the B stage portions. So I tried to adjust my mics to be facing backwards and had some issues with it for a few moments on the transitions. Also found out from FOH that he really drives the PA throughout the night. So the levels are not continuous on every song. So that's why there is so much level fluctuations. After Raleigh and having the issues with the 32 bit float, I decided to just use my trusty M10 Oade Mod for this show. I think it was definitely because I kicked the gain up so high on the FR-AV2, but I wanted to confirm when I got home. Had a somewhat chatty crowd around me throughout the night, but this was definitely the best crowd for the handful of shows I had been to on this tour. A pit opened up, people jumping around. It had great energy! First time I've heard Burn on this tour, which was a nice switch up. As the setlist has gotten a bit static. Huge shout out to Nicky C for sending me an emergency spare of active cables after the Cleveland show where my cable shorted out! Dude overnighted them and everything so I could capture the last NIN shows I am attending with my favorite mics. So, huge thank you for going above and beyond! Headed immediately back to the hotel to get a small amount of sleep before I had to be up for a 5am flight back home for a few days. Then on to ATL/Tampa!

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My first show of the Peel It Back Tour. I was super stoked to head to Detroit for my hometown show at LCA. I sat in section 125 near the stage. It's hard to record on this tour with the quieter parts of the set. Thank you to TJ for allowing me to try out the Tascam recorder that has 32 bit float. It really helps with the fluctuation in levels during the set and not worry too much about the levels. I've tried my best to not watch much footage from the tour up to this point, and listen to full recordings. But it's hard not to when you're adding tapes. The stage design is really amazing. Very cool visuals and I could honestly listen to a B-Stage set with Boys Noize for a full set. Vessel was the highlight of the night for me. The bass was so crisp and the new rendition of it is incredible. Closer and As Alive As You Need Me To Be were also awesome! I think I've seen Mr. Self Destruct over a dozen times and I think for like 80% of them, TR has swapped the first line lol. TR wished Boys Noize a happy birthday during band introductions. This being an arena tour, like I said, it is somewhat of a challenge to record audio. LCA has been notorious for not being the best for acoustics. Even though it is a new arena. I think this tape is a decent representation of the night. The transition from the B Stage in to Wish, the PA levels were lower than what I would expect. Overall, really happy with the tape and the video came out good for the night. Although it was a very quick trip up to Detroit. It was nice to see everyone who I bumped in to! I was able to hang with my brother, which was great. There were a few other tapers in attendance who I also ran in to before the show. Hope to have their tapes up when they are ready.

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Has my source 1 Schoeps audio synced to it. Video is an average 4K recording. During the first act on the B-Stage my video sensor was having a tough time and some drifting was happening. After, it had worked itself out. But will not be using this camera again. Yes, the download is 37GB. Please give yourself time and a decent connection if you are considering it. Remember you can always watch it on the archive's YouTube channel.

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NIN packed 45 minutes of just a nasty performance for the VetsAid concert put on by Joe Walsh. The start of Wish with the house lights on and the stage full of fog is absolutely epic. As TR stated, this will be the last performance of 'The Cold And Black And Infinite' era. I assume losing the raw aesthetics that we've seen on stage since 2017 and maybe one member is taking time away from touring? Not sure. Either way, NIN blew the roof off with this set. Really enjoyed all the performances from the evening. Thanks to anonymous for the feed, it was quickly worked on and matrixed together! I heard that the livestream audio had some echo in it throughout the night. So hopefully this makes up for it! Note this was uploaded to DIME but was banned because of the stream still being available for purchase. This is not the stream. All audience sourced. There was also a few changes to this audio recording and is the definitive source. I made a few errors that you may or may not notice in the initial seed.

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Made another blunder with the mic attenuation setting on the Marantz. Even though the levels were peaking around -9 to -6 db, the sound is blown out with bass. It is not a good representation of this show and Source 1 is a vastly superior recording. This will not be released.

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Second night in Philly and I was EXPLODING. Band comes out with the fog rolling in, house lights still on. I about lost my mind. No intro, just right in to Wish. This set was HEAVY. No fluff, no encore. Just straight through for 1h40m. Tonight was the debut of 'Me, I'm Not' on the 2022 tour. There were a few songs soundchecked in the afternoon that were not played that haven't been played in awhile. Taped from the same spot on the floor as the previous night. I also did video and came out really well, not having too many people that were taller than I around.

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Looking back at these two shows in Philly. They may have been my favorite shows of the tour. Very small venue and the sound was great in the venue from the floor. I taped the audience recording from about 15 feet in front of the soundboard on the floor. House lights still on and the band walks through the fog and starts to play Wish. It was a pre-2008 setlist with no encore. They played straight through. I received the feed in my inbox a few months ago. I have been slowly working on matrixing the sources together. I did not know that they recorded. I believe the two recordings complement one another. The small amount of reverb is added to help with the harshness of the feed. I am really happy with how this turned out and it sounds fantastic. There are a few more to come.

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First night of the run in Philly. Thank you to my wife for getting me tickets for both nights and she accompanied me for this show! Her first. She now gets it why I travel to see NIN so many times. Said that they are an unbelievably tight and well executed band and understands my allure to them! Anyways, to the show... They opened the show with the backing track of Subterraneans and Trent was playing the sax live, so I kept this on the tape. The whole setlist is WELL. BALANCED. Some deep cuts, Home/TBOTE and an EPIC encore. Trent/Atticus blew my mind with the 'Happiness In Slavery' breakdown. This was taped from a few feet in front of the soundboard on the floor.

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I edited this fileset slightly. You probably won't notice the very small difference on a few songs. But my OCD needed to fix a few things. Looking back at these two shows in Philly. They may have been my favorite shows of the tour. Very small venue and the sound was great in the venue from the floor. I taped the audience recording from about 15 feet in front of the soundboard on the floor. House lights still on with Trent playing the saxophone on 'Subterraneans' at the back of the stage. It was the only time this song opened/played on this tour. This Isn't The Place > EDIETS > The Big Come Down was the highlight of this show for me. I received the feed in my inbox a few months ago. I have been slowly working on matrixing the sources together. I did not know that they recorded. I believe the two recordings complement one another. The small amount of reverb is added to help with the harshness of the feed. There are a few more to come.

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Another great show, featuring the return of Echoplex and The Line Begins to Blur!

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I've been working on this off/on for almost 2 years now. A few times the project files did not sync to my Google Drive, losing everything. So starting over each time just seemed like a chore. But I finally found the motivation to really knock it out. I am usually not one to talk up recordings, but this is the best recording/representation of the NIN 2022 tour. I have meticulously mixed all of the sources for this one and went through removing each click from the feeds individually to give a clean version of each song. This run of shows (Raleigh, Atlanta, Franklin) was very special for me, personally. Not only was it post COVID lockdown to see my favorite band's first shows since 2018/pandemic. But I was also able to spend some time with my brother and good friends, Mark from lplive and TJ of ratm.live. As for many, the two years prior were pretty tough not seeing shows and not being able to converse with others in person about our favorite hobby, taping! Met a lot of people throughout the 3 days and it was great to talk with everyone about Nine Inch Nails and the archive. It took awhile to get out of the parking lot here in Franklin after the show, so it was cool to sit with everyone after the show and transfer the tapes to our laptops! Not to get too sentimental... let's talk about the show! First off, the venue was pretty amazing. Sitting down in an old rock quarry. A very cool venue! I would definitely go back to see a show there. The sound was great from where we sat, about 7 rows back from the left section in line with the stack. The bass was pretty overpowering throughout the shows and felt the A10 wasn't handling it well at the prior two. So I used my M10 for this show, which helped. I don't know if it was a noise ordinance or what, but up until Burn the PA system was dialed down. It was only during this song did they turn up the PA and being at the show there was a noticeable difference from then on. Atlanta saw the return of 'Heresy' in to the set and I was happy to see it at the Franklin show too! Highlight of the night was seeing 'The Line Begins To Blur' performed for the first time since 2009. Trent stopped to talk a few times throughout the show and I think even he was happy to be back on stage and out of the studio cave. I am really happy how this recording came out. It is definitely the best tape of the tour and represents it well. I would say it rivals any soundboard release. But I also could be biased. Thank you to ToolDVN and anonymous for sending over their IEM feeds after the show to work on. Let's hope that 2024 may see NIN back on stage, but I am not expecting it. Enjoy!

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A face melting festival set, with the first performance of Heresy in 13 years!

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NIN returns to the stage for the first time in three and half years with an amazing show!

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First show for NIN since 2018. It was absolutely incredible. They melted the place. Trent was very appreciative of every one coming out and the performance showed. The first time 'Everyday Is Exactly The Same' since 2006. I taped in front of the left stack. I was recording on level 2 on the A10 to start the show during Somewhat Damaged and my levels clipped and I immediately turned the volume down a few clicks. Only to realize I went to zero for about 3 seconds. I received the feed in my inbox over a month ago. I have been slowly working on matrixing the sources together. I did not know that they recorded. It was a treat to see from the first show of the tour when it came to my inbox! The audience tape is more apparent, as the feed is there to supplement. The feed ran a bit hot. But adding some reverb and compression helped to reduce the harshness. There are a few more to come.

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There are longer notes in the txt file of the recording. Two sources mixed together from myself and an anonymous source. This has been an unbelievable tour and so many damn good tapes have come from it. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the archive and sharing tapes. Especially those who were involved in the ninlive archive taping rig project. It was such a wonderful treat to get recordings from everyone and read the journal entries. Those should be up on the site very soon once I get it back and scan it. I hope to be able to bring some more recordings from the tour onto the site, as well as unearth some older recordings. Until the next tour... See you then.

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This was edited by BLG and here is his notes on the mix he did of 3 sources from the show, "I swore I was no longer going to do projects like this, but this show definitely deserved it. I can't tell you how tedious and annoying it was to remove the click track from the IEM source, but in the end it was worth it. Both AUDs complemented each other nicely and I was able to remove some crowd noise from both sources. The pre-amp battery in the AT933 source failed and it is missing the last 3 songs of the main set. Thanks to all the tapers. This was a great show to end what I consider to be an epic 6 night stand at the Palladium."