| Pink Floyd - San Francisco, Recorder 1, low gen (Kbrubaker-Neonknight) (24-96) |
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| Recorded at the Cow Palace, Daly City, San Francisco, CA, USA. Great audience recording. From the info file: Pink Floyd 1975-04-13 San Francisco, Recorder 1, low gen [24-96] Pink Floyd Cow Palace, Daly City, San Francisco, California, USA 13 April 1975 Lineage: Maxell XLII 90 low gen cassettes > *Technics RS-B965-M > Focusrite Saffire Pro 14 > Audacity 1.3 > FLAC > Reaper v4.61 > FLAC (24bit/96kHz) *The Technics RS-B965-M is a modified deck - for details see the Tapeheads.net forum xACT used to create FFP 01 Raving And Drooling 02 Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V) 03 Have A Cigar 04 Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI-IX) Second set - The Dark Side Of The Moon 05 Speak To Me 06 Breathe 07 On The Run 08 Time 09 Breathe (Reprise) 10 Great Gig In The Sky 11 Money 12 Us And Them 13 Any Colour You Like 14 Brain Damage 15 Eclipse 16 Intermission Encore 17 Echoes Total running time: 2 hours 3 mins 29 secs A really enjoyable, raw transfer of a pair low gen tapes. Judging by the waveforms, at some point in the lineage Kbrubaker’s tapes have become somewhat analogue clipped but this transfer clearly sounds better than other versions currently doing the rounds. The music, which features some really good playing, is spread over four sides. I set the levels on my Saffire differently for each side and tried to keep B and C the same but it didn't work as C clipped. I allowed a mic bump to clip on side A, which ends with SOYCD (VI-IX). Side B is DSOTM through to ACYL, which cuts. Side C winds back to the beginning of Us And Them and then continues to the end of DSOTM. Brain Damage has a little tape flip and it’s a shame the source didn’t use this to break up sides B and C as it made it more fiddly to remove the duplicated material. We achieved this by utilising a dropout at the very beginning of ACYL, which was fortuitously present on both tape sides, indicating it was on the source tape one gen up. Side D features the intermission and Echoes. Goldenband advised me on speed correction values. With the exception of R&D, the tapes run rather slow, and for everything after R&D a blanket speed correction of +4.61% did the trick. R&D starts out slow, but then slides around all over the place. Ultimately it's more fast than slow and it’s possible that the reel was dragging. By leaving it in a raw state, if someone comes along and wants to treat it with Capstan, or some other similar software, they won't be ‘correcting the correction’. There's some slight variation on Side B, but we concluded that it was not worth trying to finesse it. Also, Rick's synth is out of tune in places, so achieving perfect consonance is impossible. The speed problems with R&D possibly explain why we don't have YGBC from this taper. Either the recording of that song was so messed up that he didn't dub it for anyone, or the taper noticed that there were problems with the rig and took the time to correct them. Kbrubaker cassettes / Neonknight tape transfer, March 2015 |