| Pink Floyd - Plumpton, R1, 2nd gen (careful53-Neonknight) (24-96) |
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| Pink Floyd 1969-08-08 Plumpton, R1 careful53 2nd gen (24bit/96kHz) Pink Floyd 8 August 1969 9th National Jazz & Blues Festival, Plumpton Racecourse, Plumpton, Sussex, England Lineage: 2nd gen Maxell Epitaxial XLII90 chrome cassette (1982-84) > Technics RS-B565 > Focusrite Saffire Pro 14 > Reaper v4.76 > WAV (24bit/96kHz) > ClickRepair 3.9.8 > WAV (24bit/96kHz) > iZotope RX 4 > FLAC (24bit/96kHz) > tezeta (see below) > Reaper > FLAC (24bit/96kHz) 01 Announcements and tuneups 02 Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun 03 Tuneups 04 Cymbaline 'The Journey' 05 The Beginning 06 Beset By Creatures Of The Deep 07 The Narrow Way Total running time: 35 mins 56 secs This version of Anders V's recording has much better high end than my transfer of Marbal's 3rd gen. It also has less hum and is clearer. Careful53's cassette was recorded with Dolby B and I left it off because the music sounded blanketed with it on. The left channel was very weak and crackly so it was a simple choice to drop it. Like all copies of this recorder, the recording has a very low level hum at around 60Hz. I tackled it using iZotopeÕs remove hum module and it is now barely present. There were some crackles on the tape and I addressed them using ClickRepair in automated mode, decrackle 40, x3 method; a non-destructive approach. Tezeta dealt with the speed correction for me. He decoded to wav with TLH, then loaded into Audition 3, fixed the DC bias offset around the centre wave at absolute zero, then used the pitch bend graph tool. Tezeta applied a sliding correction across the whole recording starting at -0.62 semitones and ending at -0.92. He then took the final wav export and rendered it as dual mono flac using Reaper. To complete the job I divided the file into the individual songs and exported in Reaper. One of 42 acts scheduled, the Floyd were booked to appear at 10.25 p.m. for an hour on Friday 8 August, following UFO club friends and rivals Soft Machine and closing the first night of the 3-day festival. Future collaborators Ron Geesin and Roy Harper appeared on the other two days, along with major groups such as The Who. The festival comperes, one of whom can be heard at the start of the tape, were John C Gee (Marquee Club) and Colin Caldwell (Marquee Studios). Including a nice Ummagumma style sleeve photo, the event programme noted in the style of the time that Pink FloydÕs Òmusic is so highly personal many a pagan has been converted to their musical conceptions.Ó For their Òunique, avant gardeÓ contribution to proceedings records show that the band were paid £600. Because of power problems affecting the preceding bands, some accounts suggest the Floyd played their set in the early hours of Saturday morning when, itÕs commonly reported, a good part of the audience had gone to sleep. ItÕs possible therefore that we should therefore really be referring to the date of this tape as 9 August 1969. International Times 63 records the start time differently, however suggesting the Òthe Floyd finally appeared at 11, very cool and unconcerned by it allÓ. IT went on to say that Òtheir sound was as nicely balanced as itÕs ever been outdoors but there was a controlling restraint that went through the first part of their set which was unfortunate under the circumstances, as already there were hang-ups with the last train.Ó Careful53 cassette / Neonknight tape transfer, February 2017 |