Monday, April 25, 2011

PF - 1977-05-01 - Iron Pigs On Fire


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Dr. Forrester said...

Pink Floyd 1977-05-01 TCCC Ft. Worth TX (Iron Pigs On Fire) aud (T-700Rev.A)

I'm the guy who recorded this show. I have the original analog cassette tapes of it.
Over the years I have traded analog tape copies and have done one other digital transfer of it (Iron Pigs On Fire T-700). This is a revision of that release for the 30 year aniversary of the show. I have gone back to the origijnal tapes as the source for this release (Iron Pigs On Fire T-700Rev.A).

Mics: 2 Sony ECM 19B >
Recorder: Sony TC-152 >
Tape: Sony Chrome CRO-90 cassettes
the Original Analog Cassette Tapes >
Playback Deck: Tascam 130 >
Nikko 32 Band EQ >
Akai DR16 Digital Hard Disk Recorder > 16 bit 48 kHz >
ADS Tech Instant Music RDX-150 input SPDIF
output USB to computer 16 bit 48 kHz >
Wave Lab 5 - WAV 16 bit 48 kHz > Audacity > CD Wave Editor > WAV 16 bit 48 and 44.1 kHz > FLAC

disc 1

1. Sheep
2. Pigs On The Wing (part 1)
3. Dogs
4. Pigs On The Wing (part 2)
5. Pigs (Three Different Ones)


disc 2

1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (parts 1 - 5)
2. Welcome To The Machine
3. Have A Cigar
4. Wish You Were Here
5. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (parts 6 - 9)
6. (applause)
7. Money
8. Us And Them

The right microphone became unplugged during the concert just before Us And Them. I used the left channel for both so, technically that song is 2 channel mono. I checked and made a slight speed correction and put Shine On You Crazy Diamond (parts 6 - 9) back together. I have included the files pf1977-05-01 (T-700Rev.A) 44.1kHz-edits removed.flac and pf1977-05-01 (T-700Rev.A) 48kHz-edits removed.flac which contains all the sound from the edits made when sound was deleted or patched. If you burn as audio I wouldn't recomend including this file on the audio disc.

I have included both 48 kHz and 44.1 kHz sampled versions in this release. The 44.1 kHz is for burning as audio discs.
The artwork has been revised for this version and I've included scans of the original tapes.

I did the original recording, editing, mastering (tweaking), analog to digital transfer and artwork for this version of this show. Don't add, change or remove any of these files. Please keep the text, md5 and artwork files unaltered, together with the FLAC's.

April 25, 2011 at 12:14 PM
mahavishnu floyd said...

To my ears, the 48 kHz version is slightly but clearly better than the 44.1 kHz version, especially on loud passages, where there is less grain and etch. The 48 kHz version has enough extra transparency that I could clearly hear the unpleasant noise signature of the Nikko equalizer, which happens to be familiar to me because I made the mistake of buying one.

Some people say the original transfer sounds better. It is available here > http://qualitybootz.blogspot.com/2010/03/pink-floyd-fort-worth-1977-vg-aud-flac.html

When I compared the 48 kHz revision A to the orig transfer at 44.1kHz, it was pretty much a toss-up, so the orig transfer was probably slightly better.

Would be nice to hear the original taper release a Revision B without the cheap Nikko equalization. Still a fine show to listen to.

Thank you Dr. Forrester for making the superior 48 kHz rip available. As far as quality goes, most other blogs fail to deliver the best. Just Add Cones' performance is commendable in this regard.

April 26, 2011 at 1:22 PM

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