Pink Floyd - Southampton (2nd gen) (careful53-Neonknight) (24-96) |
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Pink Floyd 1969-05-09 Southampton, careful53 2nd gen (24bit/96kHz) Pink Floyd Old Refectory, Student's Union, Southampton University, Southampton, England 9 May 1969 Lineage: 2nd gen TDK SA90 cassette (1983) > Technics RS-B565 > Focusrite Saffire Pro 14 > Reaper v4.76 > FLAC (24bit/96kHz) > Adobe Audition 3.0.1 > flac (32bit/96kHz float) > speed correction > flac (24bit/96kHz) > wav (24bit/96kHz) Tracked with CD Wave, encoded to flac 8 with TLH. xACT used to create FFP 01 Astronomy Domine 02 Careful With That Axe, Eugene 03 Interstellar Overdrive 04 The Beginning 05 Beset By Creatures Of The Deep 06 A Saucerful Of Secrets Total running time: 50 minutes 11 seconds Careful53 received his cassette from Steve B. It must be from a relatively early analogue transfer because the tape is generally in markedly less worn condition than the 1st gen or master. Much of the time it has slightly less high end and more hiss than the 1st gen that I released in February 2014 but compensates for this by being nicely balanced. The 2nd gen is missing 29 seconds of tape between Beset By Creatures Of The Deep and ASoS compared to the 1st gen. On the other hand there is a fragment more tape at the very end. Unfortunately the master transfer sounds the worst of the three. I used iZotope to match the channels and align the azimuth, then added 1.27dB in Reaper before handing over my FLACs to Bert13 to work on. The recording required a greater speed correction than my 1st gen release. Adjustments were made by Bert13 with Adobe Audition 3.0.1. Track 1 + 2: 93.3 shrink Track 3 - 6: 93.8 shrink Bert also removed a couple of pops at the start of AD. Careful53 cassette / Neonknight tape transfer, January 2017 |