| Pink Floyd - BBC Paris Theatre, 1st gen from archive (Neonknight) (24-96) |
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| Recorded at the Paris Cinema, London, UK. Excellent recording, copied from the master reels. From the info file: Pink Floyd 1970-07-16 BBC Paris Theatre, 1st gen from archive (24bit/96kHz) Pink Floyd BBC Paris Cinema, Lower Regent Street, London, England 16 July 1970 Lineage: BBC master reels > Studer / Revox reel to reel player > line > Aiwa 1990s auto reverse cassette player recording feed through > headphone socket line connection > Sony Pro WM-DC6 > Maxell MX-S 90 metal cassette > *Technics RS-B965-M > Focusrite Saffire Pro 14 > Reaper v4.61 / iZotope RX3 > FLAC (24bit/96kHz) xACT used to create FFP *The Technics RS-B965-M is a modified deck - for details see the Tapeheads.net forum 01 Embryo (part of the introduction is missing and there is an internal cut) 02 Fat Old Sun 03 Green Is The Colour 04 Careful With That Axe, Eugene 05 If 06 Atom Heart Mother Total running time: 1 hour 1 minute 23 seconds This is not better than the Bert13 speed corrected version of this date that you are sure to have in your collection. A worthy alternative, my recording demonstrates how the BBC’s late 1990s / early noughties digital transfers stripped some of the raw analogue magic from their master. My copy has a natural feel to it, there is fuller low end and the drums have greater punch. However, it also has more hiss and some of the higher frequency detail present on the BBC sourced version is reduced. I made the recording in 1997. The technician playing back the reels set his levels quite high causing low end distortion among the tonal content, which I have dealt with using the reduce distortion preset algorithm in iZotope. Like my recent stereo Montreux '71 release, the best setting was noisy gain -6.0dB. This had a positive effect and no artefacts were introduced. Unfortunately my Sony Pro had a loose connection and only recorded one channel; a relief then that the master is mono so little harm was done. The gap in Embryo was caused by me having to temporarily pull the line connection out of the Aiwa's headphone socket and should be an exact fit for the missing music if anybody would like to insert it. The BBC's master is on two reels and the first one ends with the introduction to AHM. Neonknight, October 2015 |