OK, here we go - "Voices" again so you have something against which to draw a comparison. This is about ten minutes work. (The following contains criticisms of previous remastering efforts; NO OFFENCE INTENDED to the folk who did them - I am speaking only the truth.
Original, clean source: Mild noise, atrocious EQ in the midrange, crackling interference.
Crispain: High frequency noise (and therefore crackling) boosted to infinity. Too much bass and compromised dynamics. Improved but generally unnatural EQ. (You boosted frequencies where there was no music, only noise - making the noise louder for absolutely no reason.)
Stingray: Based on Crispain's therefore exhibiting all its problems plus: Filtered to absolute buggery, claustrophobic, ambience removed. Is that a noise gate you used?
I have taken a rather more pragmatic approach. The three most important rules of audio restoration: 1) You cannot create sound that isn't there; you can only balance and in some cases, take away. 2) If the effect of your restoration compromises the original signal, don't do it. 3) Just because you can apply an effect 100% doesn't mean you have to; the purpose of noise reduction isn't to completely obliterate noise at any cost - it is to ameliorate the distracting influence of noise. With that in mind, the equalisation is more natural. Noise is significantly reduced but not to the extent of swallowing up ambience.
It's not perfect, and it never will be; but at least you can listen to this and not get a thumping headache. And it has the distinct advantage of a natural frequency response. The voice sounds like a voice. (I really do believe that whoever recorded this has the microphone in a pocket or otherwise disguised; perhaps by a coat or a jumper or something.)
There you go; enjoy. I hope this pleases somebody. I still think this concert is an absolute waste of time from an auditory point of view. It's like taking a poor quality photocopy of the Mona Lisa and then spending hours trying to colour it in so it looks like the original... when you have the original painting hanging up in your lounge. I suppose you could say it has "atmosphere" but personally I'd rather listen to the more artistically valid CD versions. Tank is particularly atrocious.
Peace and love etc. :)
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Edit: Belated response to JBarron2005 for the benefit of anybody else who may be wondering about a CD release... I recall that no professional recording was made of the concert (for various reasons I don't remember) so unless that is a lie, a commercial release is impossible. It would've sold fifty trillion copies. I can't think why they wouldn't have; but by the same token if they had it would have been released at least a dozen times in various DVD, Bluray, CD, special Box Set edition with packaging in the shape of Yoko Kanno's tits, by now.)