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notes:
I'm
not sure about the actual source of this, this is less
amplified than the HIFI clones in circulation and a bit smoother.
notes about the Reeling Project:
Reeling In Pink Floyd - general information Message List
A little while ago, I received a remarkable offer - Would I be interested in
some Pink Floyd related audio material ? What I received was a box of DAT tapes
and CDs. Most of the material came to my friend from several of Europe's most
famous collectors back in the late 1980s / early 1990s. These are the sorts of
people who own the actual master reels of many of the more popular
RoIO recordings. These European collectors dubbed significant amounts of their
collections for my friend. But, as life has sped up and the years have grown
long, he just hasn't had much motivation to listen to any of them any more & was
hoping to find a way of sharing the material with others.
Happily enough, I happen to know someone with a professional DAT deck - one with
a digital output. B-) So, he transferred all of the DATs to .wav files and then
.flac-ed them. They're all *exactly* the same as the original DAT tapes - the
same sampling rate, the same length, etc. Some are at 48 kHz, which is actually
better than CD quality (44.1 kHz). So, to make a reasonable audio CD, you'd have
to sample down to 44.1 kHz and cut into tracks.
Obviously, I thought it might be nice to compare these recordings to previously
circulating versions. I spread them around to a few friends with large
collections. The general consensus was that the DATs tended to be slightly
longer (mostly more audience noise) and sound slightly to moderately better than
previous, highly circulated versions. But, to be completely fair, often there
weren't other versions to compare to (as was often the case with my collection).
Also, I happen to own a master reel containing two concerts from the middle
1980s. I had this professionally transferred relatively recently.
All of the material fits nicely on 7 DVDs. |
