RE-UP Pink Floyd - Paris 1974

Pink Floyd 1974-06-24 Paris, unknown gen (16bit/44.1kHz)

Pink Floyd
Palais des Sports de la Porte de Versailles, Paris, France
24 June 1974

01 Shine On You Crazy Diamond
02 Raving And Drooling
03 Echoes
Set two:
04 The Dark Side Of The Moon
Encore:
05 One Of These Days

Running time: 1 hour 56 mins 26 secs

This one is a bit of a tough listen at times. A collectors or completionist item only perhaps. Most of the gory details are listed below. The tape speed and distortion issues are prevalent and quite distracting at times. The sound is muffled but listenable, once your ears adjust. 

FLAC
G/G+

*Original Notes
I received my cassettes in a trade with an experienced French collector in 1996 and they are probably low gen.

The files represent a straightforward transfer of this mono recording followed by a partial speed correction. I dropped the dull sounding right channel on sides A to C and the left channel on side D. As often occurs, taking this action gave the recording a nice boost. In terms of output levels, sides A and B were a good match for one another. I moved the FSP's gain dial down slightly for side C, then a little more for side D.

When transferring the tapes it was interesting to note that each side was close to 30 minutes:

A - SOYCD / R&D - ends 29.49.29
B - Echoes - ends 54.41.85
C - Speak To Me to Money - ends 84.39.27
D - Us And Them to One Of These Days - ends 112.55.61

My tapes run fast and unfortunately the speed is variable, ranging from 3% to 8% (the latter during parts of Time). I slowed the recording down by 3% in Audacity for this release so it is closer to being correct. After downsampling in Reaper from 24/96 to 16/44, the final step was to track the project in CDWave.

Neonknight, September 2013

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