Tuesday, April 5, 2011

PF - 1972-02-20 - In Rainbow Light


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Dr. Forrester said...

Pink Floyd - In Rainbow Light
Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, London UK
1972-02-20

Well here we go.
The first completely complete version of the famous 4th Rainbow show.
I assembled this with multiple master tapes provided to me by WRomanus. I've seen versions of the first set fixed (Best And The Rest Of Tour 72) but I was never happy with the segues.
As far as it goes this is the most complete this show is going to get.
The only thing I didn't include was the first 20 seconds of the beginning, as this is just mic noise as the taper sets up his gear.
These tapes are of varying qualities and generations, but I've done my best to make the transitions painless.
I used NR and hiss reduction only when it was necessary, mostly during the tune ups.
I stereo spatialized everything not from Best Of Tour 72 so it would sound more like that does.

The abbreviations for the master tapes are as follows:

BOT72 = Best Of Tour 72. 1st pressing pristine vinyl.
MC = Master Clone - A 2nd gen copy of what I believe to be taper 2. Not that tonally brilliant, but a good clean recording, for the most part complete.
FS = Franco S., a big Italian collector living in Germany. Same original source as MC
N = Nostrum, coming from WRomanus and Yogaman Collections.
JG = From Jason G. USA. From this source only the phrase "this is Echoes", because it was much more audible on this version. Probably taper 1.
ACR = Atomic Crow Recording - this version is pretty much the same as MC, but claims to be 4th gen. It contains portions not on MC, so I used it as a patch. A little distortion and some NR artifacts made me not use this as the basis.

CD 1
Set 1
01 Heart Beat Intro (Speak To Me)
02 Breathe
03 Travel Sequence
04 Time
05 Breathe (reprise)
06 Mortality Sequence (Ecclesiastes)
07 Money
08 Us And Them
09 Any Colour You Like
10 Brain Damage
11 Eclipse
Set 2
12 Tune Ups
13 One Of These Days
14 Tune Ups
15 Careful With That Axe, Eugene
CD 2
Set 2 (cont'd)
01 Tune Ups
02 Echoes/Encore Break
Encores
03 Audience Requests/Tune Ups
04 A Saucerful Of Secrets
05 Something Different (Blues)
06 Encore Break/Audience Requests
07 Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun

For set 1 I used the BOT72.
Heart Beat Intro (Speak To Me) is from FS.
I filled the missing portions in Time and Us and Them with MC.
Eclipse is ended with the ACR tape.
The BOT72 (and all subsequent versions) slows down gradually during the second half of Money and continues until the break in Us and Them where the piece is missing. I speed corrected this.

All the songs for the set 2 are from MC.
The tune up before OOTD is from N.
The tune up between OOTD and CWTAE is from FS.
The dialogue is from ACR.
Tune ups before Echoes are from FS, but the announcement of the song title is from JG as mentioned above.
Tune Ups between Echoes and ASOS are from N.
Tune up after Something Different is from FS.
At this point the alignment of the tape seems to be real bad, but its generations down the line. I used the right channel only as the left was pretty bad.
There is a 2db boost in the left channel on all content from MC beginning at CWTAE.
All pieces from FS are speed corrected.

The tune ups don't sound nearly as good as the rest of the tape, but I had to put this show right.
(I did the same thing to Hollywood Bowl 72. Sometimes you just aren't happy with a release no matter what)

April 5, 2011 at 10:11 AM
Anonymous said...

Thats an incredible amount of sonic reconstruction. Thank you, and kudos!

Claude

February 20, 2012 at 8:13 PM

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