| Pink Floyd - Leeds (Unknown Gen) Beechwoods Tape (24-96) |
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| Recorded at the Town Hall, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK. Very good audience recording. From the info file: Pink Floyd Town Hall, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK 1972-01-28 Unknown Gen Cassettes 2 x Maxell XLII90 Cassettes, recorded sometime in the 90's. == Nakamichi ZX-7 > Tascam HD-P2 > WAV (24/48) > FLAC 8 Apple MacBook / Adobe Audition CS6 used to remove preceding and trailing silences, and to split into tracks. XLD used to encode to FLAC. Transfer by Beechwoods, 27th October 2013. == 129'35' -- Tape 1 01. Speak To Me 02. Breathe In The Air 03. The Travelling Sequence 04. Time 05. Breathe Reprise 06. The Mortality Sequence 07. Money 08. Us And Them 09. Any Colour You Like 10. Brain Damage 11. Eclipse (Instrumental) 12. Audience 13. One Of These Days 14. Audience 15. Careful With That Axe, Eugene -- Tape 2 16. Echoes 17. Audience 18. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun 19. Audience 20. Blues == From my own unknown gen tapes. Pictures are included in this package. The tapes came to me labelled as The Guildhall, Southampton 1972-01-23. Upon examination it turns out that they are not from the 23rd at all, but the 28th, and they compare extremely favourably with the MoLM release 'You Are Number Six'. Like 'You Are Number Six' there are speed problems at the end of Dark Side and into One Of These Days. These speed issues are likely present on the master. Unlike 'You Are Number Six' this transfer is brighter, and more complete. The MoLM release runs slower than this, leading to a shorter overall timing, but these tapes have more content. 'Brain Damage' and 'Eclipse' on the MoLM release appears to have been cut, possibly to minimise the extent of the speed issues. 'Speak To Me' on this tape starts abruptly, rather than having a clean fade. It sounds like the start of the original tape is intact here. I'll leave it others to 'spot the differences'. These tapes are in any case clearly brighter, more forward and more consistent. Files are presented untracked, and a CUE file is included for those who use FOOBAR or other CUE enabled players for their high-resolution files. These tapes are perhaps a good candidate for a mastering project. I'm not planning on making them available in CD Wave format. Feel free though to downsample it for your own use. Beechwoods 28th October 2013 |