Pink Floyd - Paris, unknown gen
 
Album info
 
Recording Date  : 24-06-1974
     
Length  : 116:27
Format  : FLAC
Track List
 
01 Shine On You Crazy Diamond 20:28
02 Raving And Drooling 10:17
03 Echoes 25:39
04 The Dark Side Of The Moon 51:26
05 One Of These Days 08:37

Notes
Recorded at the Palais des Sports de la Porte de Versailles, Paris, France. Very good audience recording.


From the info file:

Pink Floyd 1974-06-24 Paris, unknown gen (16bit/44.1kHz)

Pink Floyd
Palais des Sports de la Porte de Versailles, Paris, France
24 June 1974

Lineage: Unknown gen cassettes (TDK SA90) > *Technics RS-B965-M > Focusrite Saffire Pro 14 > Audacity 2.0.3 > WAV (24bit/96kHz) > Reaper v4.52 > WAC (16bit/44.1kHz) > CDWave 1.98 > FLAC (16bit/44.1kHz)

xACT used to create FFP
*The Technics RS-B965-M is a modified deck - for details see the Tapeheads.net forum

01 Shine On You Crazy Diamond
02 Raving And Drooling
03 Echoes
Set two:
04 The Dark Side Of The Moon
Encore:
05 One Of These Days

Running time: 1 hour 56 mins 26 secs

I received my cassettes in a trade with an experienced French collector in 1996 and they are probably low gen.

The files represent a straightforward transfer of this mono recording followed by a partial speed correction. I dropped the dull sounding right channel on sides A to C and the left channel on side D. As often occurs, taking this action gave the recording a nice boost. In terms of output levels, sides A and B were a good match for one another. I moved the FSP's gain dial down slightly for side C, then a little more for side D.

When transferring the tapes it was interesting to note that each side was close to 30 minutes:

A - SOYCD / R&D - ends 29.49.29
B - Echoes - ends 54.41.85
C - Speak To Me to Money - ends 84.39.27
D - Us And Them to One Of These Days - ends 112.55.61

My tapes run fast and unfortunately the speed is variable, ranging from 3% to 8% (the latter during parts of Time). I slowed the recording down by 3% in Audacity for this release so it is closer to being correct. After downsampling in Reaper from 24/96 to 16/44, the final step was to track the project in CDWave.

Neonknight, September 2013