AUD source - recorder 4 - 1st generation - xavierbirtwich01@gmail.com Microsoft one drive

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AUD source - recorder 4 - 1st generation - xavierbirtwich01@gmail.com Microsoft one drive

1971-06-19 Brescia - Rec 4 - 1st gen cass [44-16]
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Pink Floyd
june 19th 1971
Palazzo delle Manifestazioni Artistiche
Brescia, Italia

Recorder 4

* RAW and Revised versions at 44.1Khz 16bit *

Lineage (RAW version) : Geloso R2R (master) > Sony C-60 cass (1st) > WAV 44.1Khz 16bit > FLAC 44.1Khz 16bit

Added Lineage (Revised version) : RAW > WAV 44.1Khz 32bit > restorations > dither > WAV 44.1Khz 16bit > track splits > FLAC 44.1Khz 16bit


setlist:

1. Atom Heart Mother
2. Careful With That Axe, Eugene (cut)
3. Fat Old Sun (incomplete)
4. The Embryo (inside cut)
5. The Return Of The Son Of Nothing (cut at end)

Total Time Running = 57:15


Comments: This is the fourth recorder for the Brescia gig, an incomplete recording of (IMHO) really nice quality! The taper, G.O. , had shared this transfer on youtube and, finally, nipote was able in contacting him and getting the lossless 16/44 WAV files of what he had shared on youtube.
The original master recording was made with a Geloso R2R recorder and then copied onto this (1st gen) Sony C-60 cassette (a picture of the cassette is included).
Unfortunately, the transfer we've got (which is the same as on youtube) was performed at a too loud level and then it has severe clipping, so the first thing I managed to do was to repair all the flattened/clipped peaks with the declip processor in Izotope RX software while also reducing the overall gain by 10dB (yes, it was that much overloaded!).
Then I applied automatic declicker with (very conservative setting) to simply remove some of the clicks due to the previous clipping.
As a last step, i did apply speed correction as the recording ranged from about 7,5% to about 11,5% too slow speed. Nothing else was done.
Of course, there is still some hearable distortion left, here and there... but I'd say it's just a lot more enjoyable than the "really hard to listen to" RAW transfer.
I really hope that the taper will consider the idea to make a new transfer, being his one a really nice recording in itself and which will benefit from a top quality transfer.
But, meanwhile, I do wholeheartedly thank him for what we have here.

Enjoy,

Vince.


G.O. recording and transfer / nipote arrangements / vince666 mastering - december 2020

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