Saturday, April 9, 2011

PF - 1973-03-17 - When You're In RCMH


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Dr. Forrester said...

"When You're In RCMH" (LPP)

SQ Scale (G+ VG- VG VG+ EX- EX EX+ SUP- SUP)

SQ Rating: EX/EX+

Pink Floyd
Radio City Music Hall
New York, New York
March 17, 1973

Source: Reeling In Pink Floyd: DVD3 Tape9
Lineage: Cass Master>DAT@48khz >Wav48 >shn48 ->> Wav48 >ACL11 >Wav48 >CDWave >FLAC48

IMO, the SQ generally gets stronger as the show progresses with the 2nd set stronger than
the 1st partly because it contains almost all stereo.

Objective was to repair the drop outs and drop downs while retaining large contiguous
stereo segments, speed correct, balanced the channel levels/gain thoughout, remove repeated
segments and splice, remove some loud pops and noises, and smooth and edit where necessary.

Set 1 (67:36)
01 Obscured By Clouds 4:54 +
02 When You're In 7:41 + =
03 Audience/Tuning 1:43 + =
04 Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun 14:20 + =
05 Audience/Tuning 1:22 + =
06 Careful with that Axe, Eugene 13:23 + =
07 Audience/Tuning 0:46 =
08 Echoes 23:24 + =

Set 2 (54:36)
01 Speak to Me 3:34 +
02 Breathe 2:50 +
03 On the Run 5:28 +
04 Time 5:46 +
05 Breathe (Reprise) 1:04 +
06 The Great Gig in the Sky 5:55 +
07 Money 6:00 +
08 Us and Them (inside cut) 2:41 + =
09 Any Colour You Like 7:04 + =
10 Brain Damage 3:37 +
11 Eclipse 1:56 +
12 One of These Days 8:34 +

Total (122:12) Stereo: + Mono: =

Set1: ~26:00 of mono, Set2: 4:18 of mono

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Notes:
This source's speed varied quite a bit. Not so much within a track but at cuts and tape flips.
It was mostly fast. There was a 1 second repeated segment toward the end of Brain Damage where
the remainder of the track ran much slower than the preceding portion.

All of the drop outs on Set1 were the right channel with the only drop out in Set 2 being the
left channel. I retained the large contiguous stereo segments as well as any large stereo segments
with a few small drop outs. With these I utilized the remaining channel by itself and/or created an
additional set of mono channels in order to replace the drop out and retain the stereo segment.
Mono and Multi channel mono was also used to fill in the portions when only one channel was available.

Increased the overall gain +4db before balancing the levels throughout. There was some variation
overall and by channel. In Set1 there were some segments with pretty significant drop downs in the
right channel that I increased the gain significantly in order to retain the stereo segment. I had
to reduce the background noise on this segments a little in order for the transitions to be
transparent, but this was preferable to losing the stereo segment.

I manually removed dozens of loud pops and some obnoxious mic bumps but there still remains occasional
ticking and a some digital crackles. I tried a few conservative to average settings for the declicker
with modest results. I felt that using a more aggressive setting would gouge the audio.

Lowered the output of the digi-noise segment about two minutes into WYI. Removing it would have messed
up the timing of the segment.

Also removed the repeated segment in Echoes and BD and spliced it seemlessly. Removed the dead space in
the tape flip during the cash register in Money.

There is a segment of tape damage followed by a small inside cut followed by a bit more damage
towards the end of Echoes.

Also beware of the very beginning. The taper is messing with his equipment and the levels are very low
and are dropping out etc. I smoothed this out the best I could with levels and mono adjustments but the
levels jump up 9 seconds in and eventually calm down and go stereo at about 40 seconds.

Chances are I'm forgetting something.

April 9, 2011 at 12:04 PM

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