| Pink Floyd - Hollywood, Recorder 2, low gen (Stratcat58-Neonknight) (24-96) |
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
| Recorded at the Sportatorium, Hollywood, FL, USA. Very good audience recording. From the info file: Pink Floyd 1972-04-15 Hollywood Recorder 2, low gen (24bit/96kHz) Pink Floyd The Sportatorium, Hollywood, Florida, USA 15 April 1972 Lineage: Low gen Maxell Epitaxial XLII90 chrome cassette > *Technics RS-B965-M > Focusrite Saffire Pro 14 > Reaper v4.61 > 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 Us And Them 02 Any Colour You Like 03 Brain Damage 04 Eclipse 05 One Of These Days 06 Careful With That Axe, Eugene 07 Tuning up 08 Echoes 09 Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun Total running time: 1 hour 12 minutes 54 seconds Stratcat58's tape is a big upgrade on other copies doing the rounds. Other copies now seem blanketed and lack ambience. The right channel on Stratcat58's tape was quite a lot stronger than the left - often +4dB - so I brought it into balance using the gain controls on the front of the Saffire. The cassette was recorded with Dolby and I left it off for my transfer. There is a small amount of duplication of the applause and a 'thank you' from Roger at the end of side A and start of side B which I decided to leave intact. All the songs run fast on the cassette, and on goldenband's advice I applied a -5% correction to side A and -4.25% to side B. There's some variation throughout but it was not worth trying to chase down every little fluctuation. The only downside is that the first minute or so of Side A now runs a bit slow but it quickly catches up. Meanwhile both OOTD and STC speed up over the course of the song, and the latter has the same speed fluctuation after the third verse (at Roger's first whispered 'the heart of the sun') that seems to be on all copies. Stratcat58 cassette / Neonknight tape transfer, January 2016 |