Pink Floyd - Amsterdam, Recorder 2, 2nd gen (Marbal-Neonknight) (24-96)
 
Album info
 
Recording Date  : 26-06-1971
     
Length  : 77:43
Format  : FLAC
Track List
 
01 Careful With That Axe, Eugene 13:28
02 Cymbaline 12:34
03 Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun 17:56
04 A Saucerful Of Secrets 22:04
05 The Embryo 11:41

Notes
Recorded at the Amstel Free Concert, Amsterdamse Bos, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Very good audience recording.


From the info file:

Pink Floyd 1971-06-26 Amsterdam, Recorder 2, Marbal 2nd gen (24bit/96kHz)

Pink Floyd
Amstel Free Concert, Amsterdamse Bos, Amsterdam, Holland, Recorder 2
26 June 1971

Lineage: Sony UX-S 90 2nd gen cassette > *Technics RS-B965-M > Focusrite Saffire Pro 14 > Reaper v4.61 > FLAC (24bit/96kHz)

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

01 Careful With That Axe, Eugene
02 Cymbaline
03 Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
04 A Saucerful Of Secrets
05 The Embryo

Total running time 77 mins 43 secs

This stereo recording is the last tape Marbal received from Rolf Ossenberg in the mid 1990s and it came with a note that it was the “Gong version”. We have no idea what that means.

Unlike most of Marbal’s other cassettes, it was not recorded with Dolby. Goldenband provided helpful advice on a couple of minor speed corrections.

Marbal’s tape is comfortably the best we’ve ever heard for this recorder. It usually comes off like a poor relation but this one is crystal clear.

Marbal cassette / Neonknight tape transfer, April 2015