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notes:
this sounds a bit better than the version from the 3rdGen but it's really a
light upgrade hard-to-tell to that, the incomplete version from the 2ndGen is
still the one sounding crispier to my ears.
The 16 bit transfer is missing a few audience seconds in the beginning of the
show, after Pigs and before SOYCD I-V, but has some more before and after Money.
The 24 bit transfer is integral.
notes as they came with the files for the 16bit version:
Source : 1st gen from EX stereo audience reel tape - Personal collection, NOT
from "Unauthorised Live" silver disc of different quality.
PLEASE NOTE : I have already shared here a SECOND gen incomplete tape (missing
Have a Cigar and Wish you were here) from the same recorder.
This post is an UPGRADE : my good friend LETSGO / SM gave me his COMPLETE 1ST
GEN. tape of the show for digitalizing purposes (same recorder).God Bless Him !
Lineage : couple of AKG mics
-> UHER reel recorder
-> my 1st gen Europe Type I tapes
-> Nakamichi Dragon dolby off for playback
-> Zoom H2
-> Goldwave v.5.56 for edits,tracks, channels mix.
-> TLH 2.4.1 (build 160)-> FLAC level 8 align on sector boundaries -> md5s
Total time 1:53:05
Taped by G.D.
Digitalized, prepared and shared by finkployd49 (November 2011)
Enjoy the music, dont'sell it on e-bay.
Support the artists.
Sorry no artwork, feel free to make one.
notes as they came with the files for the 24bit version:
Lineage: AKG mics & Uher reel-to-reel recorder > Europe Type I tapes > *Technics
RS-B965-M > Focusrite Saffire Pro 14 > Audacity 1.3 > FLAC (24bit/96kHz) >
CDWave (1.98) > FLAC (TLH used to create FFP)
*The Technics RS-B965-M is a modified deck - for details see the Tapeheads.net
forum
Total running time 1 hour 58 mins 08 secs
A raw, high resolution transfer of an old first gen copy of GD's excellent
stereo reel-to-reel recording.
The 1st gen tapes were first transferred using a Nakamichi Dragon and a Zoom
handheld recorder and seeded on Dime, then subsequently uploaded to Yeeshkul. I
contacted the owner, finkployd49, and he kindly loaned his cassettes to me so I
could do a fresh high resolution transfer.
The only adjustments I made were in the analogue domain to each of the three
cassette sides. Each was slightly different to the next. Tape two was weak in
the right channel, for example. The FSP 14 has analogue gain dials on the front
which makes it a relatively easy, albeit time consuming, task to make
adjustments to the individual channels and achieve a nice balance.
My copy is about 5 minutes longer than finkployd49's. This is because he edited
out some audience noise and I preferred to leave everything in. There's one
place where I spotted I could have trimmed the recording a little: Pigs On The
Wing (Part 2) ends side A and you'll hear that I have left in an 18 second
repeat of audience noises from the beginning of Side B.
The transfers Finkployd49 and I achieved sound quite different. Finkployd49's
appears to have a deeper and firmer low end (a typical Nak Dragon sound) but
less high end. This could be due in part to the channel mixing work Finkployd49
did. Mine is more detailed and dynamic. For this reason we are predicting that
most people will prefer this new version.
The taper, GD, was a French bootleger who regularly recorded concerts in Paris
in the 70's. He refused to do any trades so, sometimes, the guy who gave
finkployd49 his cassettes (he mistakenly thought they were too damaged to be
used), would pay for some stuff. GD was rumored to have been busted because he
sold his recordings through music magazines ads and appears to have disappeared
from the tape trading world at the end of the 1980s. Finkployd49 remembers
seeing GD leaning against the sounboard at the Gallagher Paris '75 show; his
huge sparkling microphones could be seen from far away.
Finkployd49 Cassette / Neonknight Tape Transfer (November 2011)
notes as they came with the files for the HRV version:
Recorded by GD
1st gen cassette provided by Finkployd49
Transfer by Neonknight
Remastering by MOB
Quality Control by RonToon
Artwork by Ediskrad Studios
Produced by Harvested Records
This is a fabulous audience recording of the last of 4 consecutive nights in
Paris during the In The Flesh 1977 tour. These Parisian concerts were performed
at the Pavillon de Paris, which was a concert hall built at the place of an
ancient slaughterhouse ("abattoirs de la Villette" in French). The idea to bring
the Animals Tour at a slaughterhouse is kind of ironic, hence the title of this
release.
An excellent 1st gen tape provided by Finkployd49 was transferred by Neonknight
in 2011, and the present Harvested release is a remastered version of this 1st
gen tape transfer.
The remastering addressed mainly 3 aspects. First, on the rough transfer the
speed was not consistent, the pitch increasing slightly as the show progressed.
The speed of the first part of the Animals set is correct but it begins to
accelerate during Dogs resulting in a 1.7% increase at the end of Pigs. A
similar accelerating effect occurs for the second set, with 1.2% correction
needed at the beginning of SOYCD 1-5 and 2% correction at the end of SOYCD 6-9.
During Money, the acceleration is even more obvious where the first verse is 2%
too fast and the last verse is 3% too fast. These speed fluctuations can be
explained by batteries slowly losing power during the taping of the show. The
present remaster corrects all of these speed issues.
Another aspect was the raw sound of the original transfer with some annoying
saturation of particular frequencies during the loud parts and a kind of
"narrow" spectrum due to prominent medium. Careful EQ was applied in order to
reduce the annoying frequencies, and to let the music breathe more with a
"fuller" sound. For instance, the depth of Roger's bass can be heard in its full
glory on this remaster. Another example is the barking interlude in the middle
of Dogs where the bass drum kicks now sound as they were likely to sound in the
Pavillon that night.
Last but not least, the original recording was plagued with hundreds of mic
bumps, probably caused by GD (the taper) moving during the show and touching his
microphones. Every bump was carefully eliminated or attenuated manually in order
to appreciate the music without these disturbances. This was the biggest
challenge for this remaster, since it took dozens of hours to get rid of these
mic bumps.
Other restoration work during this remastering process was to correct some tape
drop-outs here and there, adjusting the levels of each channel and creating
continuity (avoiding the cut due to tape flip) between Pigs On the Wing Pt.2 and
Pigs, and between Welcome To the Machine and Have A Cigar. There was no NR
applied for this remaster.
In regards to the performance this show is a real killer, with the band very
inspired and tighter than during the last weeks of the U.S. tour (just listen to
the Oakland show from May 9, or the Madison Square Garden concert from July 2,
where the sound quality is fantastic but the performance is erratic at times).
Also, the European audience was very polite and did not impose itself on the
recording, unlike - again - the Oakland or the Madison Square Garden shows.
This is the 36th anniversary of this great concert, so play it loud to
commemorate our favorite Floyd tour.
Enjoy !
Harvested Team (February 25, 2013) |
