Pink Floyd - Plumpton 1969

Pink Floyd
9th National Jazz & Blues Festival
Plumpton Racecourse, East Sussex, London, England
8 August 1969

Lineage: unknown sources (Rec. 1 & 2) > cassette (unknown gen) > Tascam 112MKII (speed correction on playback) > Audiomedia III > WAV @ 44kHz > xACT (SBEs fixed, etc.) > FLAC (level 8)

Sound quality: G+ to VG

01 Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
02 Cymbaline
03 Green Is The Colour
04 Careful With That Axe, Eugene
05 The Narrow Way
06 The Pink Jungle
07 Labyrinths of Auximenes
08 Behold The Temple Of Light
09 Celestial Voices
10 Interstellar Overdrive

*Original Notes
Back in 2006 I transferred this unknown gen tape from my collection (sent to me by Rory B. from Australia back in 1997), and archived the FLACs I made to DVD-R, but didn't really do anything more with it after that.  I had to double-check my old emails to make sure I had the right fileset, and not someone else's!  I believe tracks 1-5 are from Rec. 1, and tracks 6-10 are from Rec. 2.

I've made no changes to this recording other than the speed-correction, done via the pitch control on my tape deck.  I think I may have used multiple speed-correction values for different parts of the tape, in which case I probably did multiple recording "passes" which were then edited together at the sample level.  (However, there's some variation on the original tape, and the speed still isn't 100% perfect all the time.)  I believe there was also repeated material across tapesides, which I spliced back together.  Everything else is exactly the same as on the tape I received.  FLAC tags were added in August 2009.

Spectrum is clean all the way up (which should come as no surprise, since this is taken directly from cassette), with a discrete spike around 15k, possibly suggesting a Hi-Fi gen, leakage from a TV's flyback transformer in the vicinity, or something else that would generate a pitch in that area.  I make no warranties about the sound quality; the Rec. 1 is not nearly as good as other copies, and may be irrelevant to most folks.  But the Rec. 2 doesn't seem to have the ringing on Interstellar Overdrive, so I'm guessing this might not come from Bernard White's reel.  It's far, far hissier than BW's tape, but sounds a bit more natural and "raw" to my ears (possibly because there's an alleged minidisc gen in the 1st gen source of Rec. 2 recently torrented on Yeeshkul), as well as louder.  Others, however, may disagree. -- goldenband

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