| Pink Floyd - University of Essex, Colchester (3rd Gen) Beechwoods Tape (Bert13 SPC) (24-96) |
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| Recorded at the University of Essex, Colchester, Essex, UK. Great audience recording. From the info file: Pink Floyd University of Essex, Colchester, Essex, UK 1971-02-12 2nd Generation Cassette ----------------------------------------- Beechwoods Tape and Transfer Speed Corrected and Smoothed by Bert13 1 x Maxell XLII100 Cassette, recorded sometime in the early 90's. Original source lineage: Nakamichi ZX-7 > Tascam HD-P2 > WAV (24/96) > FLAC 8 Apple MacBook / Adobe Audition CS6 used to remove preceding and trailing silences, and to split into tracks. XLD used to encode to FLAC. Additonal source lineage: FLAC > TLH > WAV > Adobe Audition 3.0.1* > WAV Tracked with CD Wave, encoded to FLAC 8, tagged and verified * - speed corrected 103.4 stretch - toned down bumps, stops/starts of the recorder - smoothed out tape glitch during Atom Heart Mother 1. Atom Heart Mother 17:17 2. The Embryo 11:54 3. Careful With That Axe, Eugene 12:39 4. Astronomy Domine 9:23 5. Cymbaline 11:45 6. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun 13:59 7. A Saucerful Of Secrets 18:06 Total time: 95:03 Transfer by Beechwoods, 2nd November 2013 Revison by Bert13, 4th November 2013 ========================================= From my own 2nd gen tape. Pictures of the tape are included. While I can't remember who I got this tape from I do remember that the owner of the 1st Gen was kind enough to lend me their copy so I could make mine. They offered to let me have the original and return the copy as I recall, which was extremely generous... quite why I turned them down I will never know, but I am pleased that the copy I did do stands up well some 20 years later. There is a currently circulating 2nd Gen of this show already. I have it as A[2] > CDR [2] > EAC > WAV > SHN > WAV > Soundforge 8.0 > WAV > FLAC. Curiously it sounds to all intents and purposes *identical* to mine, minus tidied transitions etc. For that reason I'd not bothered doing my own transfer up until now. The prior copy circulating definitely wasn't from my tape, but probably was from the same 1st Gen. It would be nice to hear a Master or 1st copy transfer of this show. The version of Cymbaline is delightful, and the recording is great, in my opinion, only struggling on the very loud parts. The dynamic range captured is fantastic. It seems a curious venue for someone with decent recording equipment to attend, but we can be grateful that they did. This is the Speed Corrected version of my transfer, by Bert13, who also smoothed some of the knocks and glitches on the raw version. His work was so gentle, and positive in all respects that I'm not sure it's worth sharing the original (it just runs slightly slow, and has all the taper's glitches during the stop/starts!) though if people are interested that can be done... Enjoy the show! Beechwoods 2nd November 2013 |