| Pink Floyd - European Tour Monitor Mix and Ambient Microphone Recordings (Neonknight) (24-96) |
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| Recorded at the Deutschlandhalle, Berlin, Germany and Stadthalle, Vienna, Austria. Great audience recording. From the info file: Pink Floyd 1977 European tour monitor mix and ambient microphone recordings (24bit/96kHz) Pink Floyd Monitor mix Deutschlandhalle, West Berlin, Germany 29 January 1977 Ambient microphone recording, also known as Recorder 3 Stadthalle, Vienna, Austria 1 February 1977 Lineage: Low gen TDK CD-ing-II chrome cassette (about 1994) > Technics RS-B965-M > Focusrite Saffire Pro 14 > Reaper v4.61 > FLAC (24bit/96kHz) xACT used to create FFP 01 Dogs (1977-01-29) 02 Sheep (1977-01-29) 03 Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI-IX) (1977-02-01 R3) 04 Money (1977-02-01 R3) 05 Us And Them (1977-02-01 R3) Total running time 55 mins 24 secs This is a straight speed corrected transfer of an incomplete alternative cassette source of these two well known recordings. I think it is probably higher gen than the bootlegs. There are many relatively subtle differences between this source and the other circulating versions. The opening to Us And Them is a good example. In my copy the applause in the right channel is more difficult to hear and replaced with hiss - a disadvantage. However, if you follow Dave's guitar in the left channel it seems to have more presence. The stereo for 1977—01-29 has always struck me as being particularly wide and rather odd. The guitars are individually panned hard left and right, the vocals are also panned hard and the drums are rather buried. Pigs On The Wing (Part One), Pigs On The Wing (Part Two) and Pigs (Three Different Ones) are missing from my source. 1977-02-01 R3 is a high quality natural, open sounding audience recording that is sometimes wrongly described as a soundboard. It it is generally thought to have been recorded close to the monitors or on the stage and I agree with the theory that it was sanctioned by the band. Wish You Were Here is absent, the opening seven minutes of Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI-IX) is missing and Money starts slightly later on my cassette. My thanks to goldenband for his speed correction advice. The tape runs slow and I made adjustments ranging from +2.51 to +4.13%. Neonknight, September 2015 |