| Pink Floyd - Washington, unknown gen (HG-pinkrudy-Neonknight) (24-96) |
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| From the info file: Pink Floyd 1971-11-16 Washington, unknown gen HG tapes (24bit/96kHz) Pink Floyd Lisner Auditorium, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA 16 November 1971 Lineage: Unknown gen TDK SA90 cassettes (circa 1994) > *Technics RS-B965-M > Focusrite Saffire Pro 14 > Audacity (original transfer) > FLAC (24bit/96kHz) > Reaper v4.61 and ClickRepair 3.9.5 > FLAC (24bit/96kHz) xACT used to create FFP and FLAC *The Technics RS-B965-M is a modified deck - for details see the Tapeheads.net forum 01 The Embryo 02 Fat Old Sun 03 Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun 04 Atom Heart Mother Intermission 05 One Of These Days 06 Careful With That Axe, Eugene 07 Cymbaline Encore 08 Echoes Total running time: 1 hour 58 minutes There is a nice review of the performance from the Washington Post in Glenn Povey's history of the band. Here's a brief quote: 'The band sounded sometimes like a screaming saw, sometimes like a fleet of intergalactic jets. A guitar with this group, became a screeching bird. Drums were explosions.' All the songs on pinkrudy's tapes have gaps between them and, taking a different approach to my usual one, I set the levels on my Saffire individually for each of them. I completed this work in 2012 and returned the cassettes, believing that this version didn't offer an improvement on other copies. I have recently re-considered this view and concluded that my transfer merits release. It was good to have a pair of tapes to work on for this interesting date which is largely dominated by bootleg releases. Thanks to my setup, I have been able to achieve a particularly nice analogue-style sound and am offering this recording largely unaltered so you can hear the stereo sound in the drop down segments that are normally edited to improve continuity. If you compare the various versions they have much the same timbre except those that have been attacked with noise reduction. You can tell the different copies apart by listening to the beginnings of the songs because they are edited differently. I haven't compared HG's tapes exhaustively to other versions but the sound on this transfer seems to me to be more full than some of the other copies in my collection. There is also less distortion and fewer dropouts. The differences are subtle and I think my transfer would respond well to some high end EQ. Picking up the transfer again in June 2016, I used Reaper to trim the duplicated material I had created by transferring the songs one at a time. After exporting from Reaper to WAV, I used ClickRepair - automated, declick 40, decrackle 40, simple method to remove various noises. Goldenband kindly provided his customary expert speed correction advice: The Embryo -0.7% Fat Old Sun -1.05% Set the Controls -0.46% AHM -1.28% OOTD -0.58% CWTAE -0.46% Cymbaline no change Echoes -0.7% for first half (to tape cut), -0.46% for second half Goldenband noted that some of the values are very fussy and the second half of Echoes may drift a bit, but nailing it down exactly makes a small but significant difference. If you are interested in how performances change through time, listen to Rick's playing on Fat Old Sun and compare it to the song in November 1970 and there are something like twice as many notes per bar. Rolf Ossenberg once posted on Yeeshkul: 'I understand this is the audio portion of a video recording done by a guy who worked on one of the spotlights during the concert. Equipment was a sony open reel video machine - those little bastards were very nice for the time being, but it is extremely difficult (if not impossible) to play back the tape on any other machine other than the original (azimuth / tracking has to be adjusted manually and changes constantly during playback - simply a nightmare).' Howard Gil tapes supplied by pinkrudy / Neonknight tape transfer, June 2016 |