Tuesday, June 9, 2009

PF - Reach For A Peach - Rev A


Please note that these links are for the Corrected Version of the DVD.

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Dr. Forrester said...

Pink Floyd
"Reach For A Peach" (HRV DVD 011) RevA
Festival de Musique, St Tropez
August 8th 1970

video standard : NTSC
ratio : 4:3
video : CBR 8
audio : (mono) Linear PCM 48kHz
length: 53 minutes

Video remastered by RonToon
Audio remastered by MOB
Quality control by Big Ed

Soundcheck
Atom Heart Mother
The Embryo
Green is the Colour
Careful with that Axe, Eugene
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun

Lineage: PAL (MPEG-2) > NTSC (MPEG-2)/PCM Stereo (mono signal)

Original notes:
In order to create an NTSC disc, a conversion from the PAL source was neccessary. Instead of doing a straight overall conversion, I was able to throw the files into Vegas and resynch all of the shots that were edited out of synch in the original broadcast. This was pretty easy after spending so much time on 8mm! I also worked on the audio, balancing the volume, which suffered from severe fluctuations.

RonToon's notes on RevA video remastering:
The original HRV release, as well as all others, were sourced from a PAL MPEG-1 file. This revision came from a PAL MPEG-2 source and is a nice upgrade. I needed to synch the entire show over again from scratch and this time around also applied a bit of color correction as well. The video of the soundcheck has been included as a prologue to the performance and all announcements/introductions have been eliminated.

MOB's notes on RevA audio remastering:
The original audio of this French TV show is rather weird. This is not a true soundboard source like the KQED TV show recorded earlier that year: here, it seems the sound was recorded through the microphone of the stage camera. And the cameraman moves a lot on stage during the Floyd performance, which is good for the visuals, but a disaster for the audio part ! As a result, the sound characteristics change radically from time to time, depending on the location of the camera. Sometimes the bass is saturated (when the filming guy is near Roger's amps or monitors), while at other times you can barely hear any bass at all. The levels fluctuate a lot too, again depending on the camera location (sometimes close to the amps, sometimes more distant). To summarise, with the raw audio from French TV masters it is almost impossible to listen to the whole show without turning the volume button or the equalizer faders on the fly !

Therefore, I reworked the audio, from the best available source: the soundtrack of the INA archives DVDs. Each time there was an abrupt modification in the mix, the frequency characteristics or the levels (it means about every 30 seconds!), I tried to readjust the levels and EQ, so that a complete listening is possible at last, with a feeling of sonic consistency throughout the songs. As usual with my remasters, I also manually corrected the repairable flaws of the raw source (drop-outs, crackles, tape warble ...). I didn't use any NR in the process.

Last but not least, Ed Paule did his usual quality check and suggested some additional corrections before the audio was fully approved.

Enjoy!
RonToon, MOB, and Big Ed
(May 2009)

June 9, 2009 at 12:23 PM

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