| Pink Floyd - Paris AM broadcast, 2nd gen (stratcat58-Neonknight) (24-96) |
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| Recorded at the Palais des Sports de L'Ile de la Jatte, Saint Ouen, France. Good recording, taken from a radio broadcast. From the info file: Pink Floyd 1972-12-01 Paris AM broadcast stratcat58, 2nd gen [24-96] Pink Floyd Centre Sportif de l'Ile des Vannes, Saint-Ouen, Paris, France 1 December 1972 Lineage: 2nd gen Maxell XLII cassette 1988/1989 > *Technics RS-B965-M > Focusrite Saffire Pro 14 > Reaper v4.61 > FLAC (24bit/96kHz) xACT used to create FFP *The Technics RS-B965-M is a modified deck - for details see the Tapeheads.net forum 01 On The Run (incomplete) 02 Time 03 Breathe (Reprise) 04 The Great Gig In The Sky 05 Money 06 Us And Them 07 Any Colour You Like 08 Brain Damage 09 Eclipse 10 One Of These Days 11 Careful With That Axe, Eugene 12 Blues 13 Echoes 14 Childhood's End Total running time: 1 hour 28 minutes 50 seconds Highlights from this broadcast include the probable live debut of Childhood's End, a Dark Side Of The Moon that is approaching its final form and the inclusion of Blues. The recording is still modest, as you would expect for an AM brodcast, but in my opinion this copy is notably better than my 1st gen to 48kHz DAT that previously set the bar for this date. Stratcat58's cassette has DSOTM and OOTD on side A and the rest of the songs on side B. The right channel is stronger on side A and left side is generally stronger on B until Echoes. Each channel is contributing and I therefore decided to retain them both and balance the levels as I converted from analogue to digital. The recording volume increases for OOTD at the end of side A. Fortunately there is a gap between DSOTM and OOTD, so I stopped the transfer, rewound and moved the right gain dial on the Saffire down a fraction to avoid clipping. Side A ends with the opening seconds of CWTAE and side B has been rewound a little somewhere in the tape lineage, repeating a second or two of OOTD before the DJ speaks. I used the momentary pause before 'Floyd Pink' in '...Careful With That Axe, Eugene, Floyd Pink' to join the two sides. As usual, I benefitted from goldenband's expert speed correction advice. The recording gradually slows down and ideally required a sliding correction value for both sides. I don't have those skills so applied the following values. Side A DSOTM, Travel Sequence through Money: +2.63% DSOTM, U&T through to the end: +3.53% OOTD: +4.07% Side B: CWTAE & Blues: +4.67% Echoes: +5.4% Childhood's End: +5.76% Great Gig was a curveball because the piano they used is significantly sharper than the rest of the band, by about 12 cents or +0.7%. That threw goldenband at first, because it initially makes it sound like the pitch has gone back up, contrary to the downward drift of both sides of the tape. We assume the band were using a venue piano. It's common in some parts of Europe to tune pianos to A 443 Hz. So that would explain it - the difference between standard tuning at 440Hz and 443Hz is 0.68%, or almost exactly the same amount as the sudden pitch jump. RTL, sponsors of the tour, are said to have broadcast the entire show live in a two-hour special, so if the master still exists it could feature Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun, which the band played as their encore. Stratcat58 cassette / Neonknight tape transfer, February 2016 |