Pink Floyd - Southampton (2nd gen) (careful53-Neonknight) (24-96)
 
Album info
 
Recording Date  : 09-05-1969
     
Length  : 50:12
Format  : FLAC
Track List
 
01 Astronomy Domine 08:56
02 Careful With That Axe, Eugene 08:30
03 Interstellar Overdrive 12:04
04 The Beginning 03:31
05 Beset By Creatures Of The Deep 04:36
06 A Saucerful Of Secrets 12:35

Notes
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