This remaster was inspired by Fred Vail who introduced The Beach Boys here on their first Concert album! This is a complete concert remaster with some tweaks, fixes and alterations. At first all I was attempting to do was to improve Fred Vail’s vocal introduction by adding some lower end, upping the volume on his speech vs. the crowd and a general remaster of the final mix. But it turned into more!<br /><br />I hadn’t listened to the concert in a while and I noticed that the lead vocals were in the left channel with reverberation in the right. While this 2001 remaster is nice and clear, I wanted to balance the vocals and remaster the first track to go with the Fred Vail introduction. Because that turned out so well, I decided to do the entire album.<br /><br />I separated the album into layers of vocals and instruments and put it back together. The lead now can be heard out of both speakers with a studio like stereo sound. I then started to remaster the new final mixdown, but noticed it really made prominent some flaws in the tracks.<br /><br />First I could really hear low frequency hum in quieter sections, and even in some areas with the crowd cheering. I had to listen to the entire show about 4 times to get all of them out. Once that was done I started noticing little clicks and noises that didn’t necessarily sound like stage sounds, but if they were, it didn’t sound natural so I removed them. Then with the new master revealing bass volume surges in the original track, I had to manually adjust levels back down to normal. And finally, I noticed obvious rough transitions in the original mixdown between songs that I fixed.<br /><br />If you have the original album or CD from 2001, compare it with the following sections that have been fixed in this video. At 0:01 Fred Vail’s introduction is a lot easier to hear and powerful and the crowd fades into Fun Fun Fun naturally. At 5:25 there was a rough fade into Mike’s speech. There’s a more natural crowd noise decay now. At 5:41 you can now hear Al’s rhythm guitar which was almost mute on the original, at 12:36 you can hear Denny’s live drum roll closing the song now, at 27:28 I Get Around used to have a very obvious abrupt edit from screaming to Mike’s introduction. Now the crowd decays more normally and the levels of Mike’s speech and at 27:38 the decay and levels of the instruments on the stage are all corrected to sound live and unedited as they flow into the vocal opening.<br />You may not have paid attention to these moments when listening to the originals, but compare these moments with the original mix. The mix on this album doesn’t include the I Get Around lead guitar solo and I thought about adding it to the mix, but when coupled with the video footage, it didn’t look like it was played in the video either, so I left it out, which makes it sound a bit different from the album. <br /><br />On the final track Johnny B. Goode, it felt like it was sped up. They boys may have played it that way live (even though this live album was
