| Pink Floyd - KBrubaker's Berlin Tape (24-96) |
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| Recorded at the Sportspalast, Berlin, Germany. Excellent audience recordng. From the info file: ************************************************** ************************************************* Pink Floyd Sportspallast Berlin, Germany June 5th 1971 Lineage: Maxell XLII cassettes x 2 (low gen) > *Technics RS-B965-M > Focusrite Saffire Pro 14 > Audacity 1.3 > Wav (24bit/96kHz) ====>> Adjustments (32bit/96kHz) > Wav (24bit/96kHz) > CDWave (1.98) > FLAC (24bit/96kHz) *The Technics RS-B965-M is a modified deck - for details see the Tapeheads.net forum 01 [09:12] Careful With That Axe, Eugene 02 [14:38] Fat Old Sun 03 [10:04] The Embryo 04 [23:31] The Return Of The Sons Of Nothing 05 [13:53] Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun 06 [11:33] Cymbaline 07 [18:37] A Saucerful Of Secrets 08 [07:53] Astronomy Domine 09 [06:34] Blues || [115:58] Total ***Neonknight's Notes*** Kbrubaker's Berlin '71 is clear and dynamic and has a nice balance in sound between the band and audience but is a bit over-driven in places. It's also a shame that the recorder pressed stop between the songs but perhaps this helped him conserve tape. Some other sources are more, or less, complete but KB's tapes have the advantage of sounding particularly clear; possibly the result of better transfers in the lineage. My guess is that the cassettes are 2nd gen. Rick's keyboards are wonderful to follow. For the most part the songs are pretty straight renditions, possibly reflecting how much of the material the band was playing must have become highly familiar to them by mid 1971. CWTAE is arguably the high point musically and in terms of the recording position of the taper. The encores are enjoyable and Return of the Son of Nothing is interesting from the perspective of its lyrics. Listen out for how the audience ceases its respectful silence during the funky section of RotSoN and starts clapping along. You would have heard me losing my cool at that point if I had been the taper. ***Littlepieces' Notes*** This is a mono recording that was dubbed as two channel stereo as is often the case. Due to the previous transfers with less than perfect head alignment, the recording has a phase shift that varies from 4-13 samples. Generally, the channel's output is similar with only a slight difference some of the time. So both channels were retained and manually aligned to improve the phasing. Nothing else was done to this recording except for the editing described below. The music is spread across 3 Maxell XLII cassette sides as follows: Side A - Cwtae -> Echoes cuts Side B - Echoes continues -> ASOS cuts Side C - ASOS continues -> Blues Echoes was spliced together from the two tape sides with about 14s missing from the beginning of the seagull segment. The two tape sides containing ASOS were spliced together and the repeated segment removed. After splicing ASOS, I noted that the segment from Side C seems to have a slightly higher hiss level. This source begins slightly fast and becomes faster prior to Echoes. It continues to be mostly fast until the end, but I chose to not speed correct it. Interesting to note the differences in the content of the various sources for this recorder. Although this source has 2s more before Echoes than some sources, it is missing all of the audience tuning and some of the beginning of CWTAE. Other sources are missing varying amounts of the audience and tuning prior to CWTAE. This source is also missing about 14s of the beginning of the seagull segment where the track is spread across two tape sides, while other sources seem to have all of this portion. You might think that this is simply a generation specific issue, but these differences occur on various 1st gen sources. So it is at least possible that the owner of the master tape contributed to the dubbing differences or owners of 1st gen copies created different dubs when making 1st gen DATs for different people. Of course more variation can occur further down the line. Kbrubaker Cassette / Neonknight Tape Transfer / Little Pieces Production (LPP)/December 2012 ************************************************** ************************************************* |