| Pink Floyd - Hallenstadion, Zurich (Rec1) (24-96) |
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| Recorded at the Hallenstadion, Zurich, Switzerland. Very good audience recording. From the info file: Pink Floyd_1972-12-09 Hallenstadion, Zurich_Rec1_24-96 ***************************************************************************************************** Pink Floyd Hallenstadion, Zurich, Switzerland 9 December 1972 *Recorder 1* Lineage: Maxell UD C-90 and C-60 cassettes > *Technics RS-B965-M > Focusrite Saffire Pro 14 > Audacity 1.3 > Wav (24bit/96kHz) ----> Adjustments (32bit/96kHz) > (24bit/96kHz) > CDWave (1.98) > FLAC *The Technics RS-B965-M is a modified deck - for details see the Tapeheads.net forum 01 [00.24] Speak To Me 02 [02.40] Breathe 03 [06.58] On The Run 04 [05.31] Time 05 [01.05] Breathe (reprise) 06 [04.32] The Great Gig In The Sky 07 [05.01] Money (end cut due to tape flip) 08 [07.55] Us And Them 09 [06.31] Any Colour You Like 10 [03.46] Brain Damage 11 [01.44] Eclipse 12 [08.37] One Of These Days 13 [14.09] Careful With That Axe, Eugene 14 [24.06] Echoes ... [93:05] Total ***Neonknight's Notes*** For those who have been following our recent series of uploads to Yeeshkul this is another transfer of a Kbrubaker cassette that he obtained around 1980. As before we do not know the lineage of the recording but suspect that it is reasonably low generation. The only version of this recorder that we are aware of being torrented is the relatively poor vinyl source, Live In Zurigo. Kbrubaker's source is much much better and much closer to the quality of the common recorder 2 than to the vinyl source. When reviewing the recording in a head-to-head against a 1st gen reel / tape to DAT clone of Recorder 1, I found Kbrubaker's cassette to be smoother and warmer and it doesn't distort on a number of occasions where the DAT does. This is probably because it has been copied at a better, albeit rather low level. The widely circulated Recorder 2 has Childhood's End and appears to have been recorded notably closer to the stage or possibly even on it. It is one of the outstanding recordings from 1972. Recorder 1 feels less chaotic but also less upfront than Recorder 2. The recording may also present an opportunity for a quad / surround sound project. The songs were split across Kbrubaker's cassettes as follows: Side A DSOTM, Side B CWTAE and Echoes, and Side C OOTD. I made adjustments to the levels on each channel using the Saffire Pro's analogue gain. If I had not intervened the left channel would have been generally quite weak. As noted above the original recording levels are rather low on each cassette, and this has no doubt added to the levels of hiss. Side C was louder than the other two. Overall I would sum up this recording as being a really enjoyable listen that gives a very worthwhile alternative perspective on a night when the band were in top form. ***Littlepieces' Mastering Notes*** Kbrubaker's cassette is a stereo recording. The speed of the Dark Side set was fast by 1% or less, OoTD was a bit over 1% fast, and CWTAE was good so I decided not to subject these tracks to a resample/speed correction. Echoes was almost 3% slow so I adjusted the speed of this song. Neon adjusted the analog gain on his FSP14 which took care of the channel imbalance, so this recording primarily required editing. Recorder 1 has the end of Money cut due to a tape flip and the recording picks up at the beginning of Us & Them so I cut out the dead air and smoothed the transition. About 8s into OoTD there was an abrupt transition that sounded like a cut or recorder stop/start without the usual zip sound so I smoothed this out as well. After CWTAE, the audience section fades out and then the portion preceding Echoes begins with an abrupt tape start, so this transition was smoothed as well. There were a few channel drop downs that were left unchanged. A couple in Echoes and one in OoTD that would have required gain increases and hiss removal in order to make the changes transparent so these were left as is. Channel levels seem to fluctuate a little throughout the show possibly due to the recorder moving about and changing the direction of the mics periodically. Kbrubaker Cassette / Neonknight Tape Transfer/ Little Pieces Production (LPP)/(July 2011) ***************************************************************************************************** |