'The Warm Night Falls'
PRS-CDR-030 (24 bits/48khz version)
Sportspallast, Berlin, Germany, June 5th 1971
from M.B. tapes
Tapes recorded on August 18th 1981
Sound Quality: EX
Source: Audience (source 3)
Total time = 118:14m
Disc 1 (73:14m) - all in one big FLAC file
1. CAREFUL WITH THAT AXE, EUGENE
2. FAT OLD SUN
3. THE EMBRYO
4. THE RETURN OF THE SONS OF NOTHING (Echoes)
5. SET THE CONTROLS FOR THE HEART OF THE SUN
Disc 2 (45:01m) - all in one big FLAC file
1. CYMBALINE
2. A SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS
3. ASTRONOMY DOMINE
4. BLUES
*Original Notes
One of my favourites concerts. Nick's on fire on Careful, there's an arab
at the beginning of Fat Old Sun. An unforgettable Gilmour over ASoS.
I always liked this one over the other versions i have of this recording. This
comes from a 1st generation cassette obtained right from the taper by MB. This
is an unprocessed transfer from that tape. HRV release is really good too, i
like the bass on that one, so maybe some of you would not consider this an
upgrade, but i think this one has better ambience and high-end overall, and hiss
is really low. Also, this tape was originally copied in mono and Dolby B on.
Only missing about 1:30 minutes of tunings, all chats and announcements are
there.
This had an speed issue. It starts somewhat ok but fast, and it went faster and
faster as the tape ran. ASoS is incredible fast on the original transfer. So i
speed corrected it track by track, comparing to HRV's and another incomplete 1st
generation i have, and testing with my guitar for the right tune. You may find
maybe it still run fast at some portions, this is my first attempt in speed
correcting track by track so it's a 1st time work, but i think it came out
right. Anyway they didnt played with a click track on that days so their own
speed varied from concert to concert i have to guess. It's known to me that 1971
has an slower playing than late 1970 (not the case of AD though). And they went
slower with the years mostly.
I labeled this tape as source 3 cos it was the 3rd version i got of this
show, and it was different to the other 2. There's a 1st Generation which
i call source 1 which is incomplete (75m only) and it doesnt sound better than
this, but it seems it has the complete tunings. Then the HRV version is the
complete one and i called it source 2, but i suspect they patched some of the
tunings from other source (any hint on this?) and this src3 i offer here
has music complete but missing some tunes as i stated before.
Also note that the taper seemed to stop the recording after every song
finishes, this is edited on the HRV release by adding fade outs and more
clapping, i left here the cuts and fades as they were on the tape/transfer.
This set of FLAC files are in 24bit/48khz, you cant play this on a regular CD
player. You can only play this through your PC with a soundcard that supports
this output but even my old SBlive 5.1 can play this so you shouldnt had any
problems. I suppose you can burn this as DVD-Audio or something, but i dont
know about that stuff. Also, i recommend you to update your player and FLAC
codecs to its latest versions. A 44khz/CD & tracked burnable version is on the
way.
A big thanks to Moonwall for the great artwork.
Enjoy
gbc
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Tape Notes
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1. less tunings before CWTAE (like 1:20m) than HRV / 1st gen src1
2. mix between embryo end & announcements before Echoes as they were on the
tape
3. missing aprox. 25secs of tunings/audience before the announcements before
Echoes than HRV / 1st gen src2 (announcements are complete)
4. abrupt sound fade at the end of tunings before echoes as it was on the tape
5. some more seconds of audience before Cymbaline than HRV
7. missing few seconds of audience before ASoS (Roger announcement is complete
though)
Disc 1
Disc 2
