(Progressive Rock) [MC] [BL] [24/96] Pink Floyd - Charade. Pavillon De Paris, Paris, France, 25.02.77 - 1977, FLAC (tracks+.cue)

Here is neonknight's 24-96 upload of Paris, 1977-02-25. This 1st. gen recording from taper GD is nothing short of spectacular. Many, many thanks to neonknight at Yeeshkul! for allowing this to be uploaded here.

Enjoy,

1chucho
"Live music is better"

Original notes:

Pink Floyd Paris 1977-02-25 1st gen (24bit/96kHz)

Pink Floyd
Pavillon de Paris, Paris, France
25 February 1977

Lineage: AKG mics & Uher reel-to-reel recorder > Europe Type I tapes > *Technics RS-B965-M > Focusrite Saffire Pro 14 > Audacity 1.3 > FLAC (24bit/96kHz) > CDWave (1.98) > FLAC (TLH used to create FFP)

*The Technics RS-B965-M is a modified deck - for details see the Tapeheads.net forum

A raw, high resolution transfer of an old first gen copy of GD's excellent stereo reel-to-reel recording.

The 1st gen tapes were first transferred using a Nakamichi Dragon and a Zoom handheld recorder and seeded on Dime, then subsequently uploaded to Yeeshkul. I contacted the owner, finkployd49, and he kindly loaned his cassettes to me so I could do a fresh high resolution transfer.

The only adjustments I made were in the analogue domain to each of the three cassette sides. Each was slightly different to the next. Tape two was weak in the right channel, for example. The FSP 14 has analogue gain dials on the front which makes it a relatively easy, albeit time consuming, task to make adjustments to the individual channels and achieve a nice balance.

My copy is about 5 minutes longer than finkployd49's. This is because he edited out some audience noise and I preferred to leave everything in. There's one place where I spotted I could have trimmed the recording a little: Pigs On The Wing (Part 2) ends side A and you'll hear that I have left in an 18 second repeat of audience noises from the beginning of Side B.

The transfers Finkployd49 and I achieved sound quite different. Finkployd49's appears to have a deeper and firmer low end (a typical Nak Dragon sound) but less high end. This could be due in part to the channel mixing work Finkployd49 did. Mine is more detailed and dynamic. For this reason we are predicting that most people will prefer this new version.

The taper, GD, was a French bootleger who regularly recorded concerts in Paris in the 70's. He refused to do any trades so, sometimes, the guy who gave finkployd49 his cassettes (he mistakenly thought they were too damaged to be used), would pay for some stuff. GD was rumored to have been busted because he sold his recordings through music magazines ads and appears to have disappeared from the tape trading world at the end of the 1980s. Finkployd49 remembers seeing GD leaning against the sounboard at the Gallagher Paris '75 show; his huge sparkling microphones could be seen from far away.

Finkployd49 Cassette / Neonknight Tape Transfer (November 2011)