Pink Floyd - Embryo's Growing At The Playhouse (24bits 96kHz vinyl)
Paris Theatre, London, England, 16 July 1970
Release: 12inch 33rpm vinyl
Label: TRADE MARK OF QUALITY
Code: TMQ - PFE 001
Tracks:
1. Embryo 8:48
2. Green Is The Colour 3:24
3. Careful With That Axe, Eugene 7:11
4. If 4:27
5. Atom Heart Mother 24:33
Total: 49:27
Band: Roger Waters
David Gilmour
Rick Wright
Nick Mason
Back in 2007 and while strolling through the center of The Hague (The Netherlands), hunting for some new vinyls, I found a RoIO from the Atom Heart Mother Tour (1970) of Pink Floyd. Checking the various databases, this could be an alternative or vinyl version of "Libest Spacement Monitor" (check out the following links: http://www.pf-roio.de/roio/roio-cd/l...cement.cd.html or http://www.pf-roio.de/roio/roio-cd/l...ent_mw.cd.html), as nowhere I could find a reference to this vinyl RoIO. The sound quality is excellent and I had transferred it straight to digital the fist time I played this record from its sealed album (just a brown carton folder with a loose white paper front page) and published it on Yeeshkul! in 16/44.1-flacs, with no remastering at all to keep the vinyl-feel (just manually removed some clicks and normalized it to -0.1dB). The original description has been copied at http://www.roio.compnet.com.pl/bootlegs/EmryosGrowingAtPlayhouse.htm.
There was some confusion about the real date and venue of this vinyl as the cover mentioned: "Playhouse Theatre, London, 16th September 1970" and after some clues from Yeeshkul! fans and some digging I proposed Paris Theatre, London, 16th July 1970 as the most likely venue and date.
See also the old Yeeshkul! posting (2007-09-06): http://yeeshkul.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3157
The 24bits 96kHz version
==================
Enough about the history. In November this year I received a PM from littlepieces with a request to do another transfer at 24/96. I was planning this already for some time but delayed it until I got myself a new phono cartidge to replace my 30-odd years old Ortofon MC10.
So here is the result: this great vinyl in 24bits at 96kHz. Time had done some damage to the vinyl, as a hot summer had caused a nasty bend in the side of the record, especially noticable at the beginning of "Embryo" and "Atom Heart Mother".
Lineage:
Cartridge: Ortofon Rondo Red (MC)
Turntable: Thorens TD165 MkII (modified with in-built symetrical 20dB MC pre-preamplifier)
(RIAA) Amplifier: Denon PMA-1500R
Loudspeaker set 1: Infinity Alpha 40
4-channel DI Amplifier: Behringen DI-4000
Mixer: Behringer Xenyx 1616FX
Amplifier 2: Phonic DMX 2501
Loudspeaker set 2: Wharfedale EVP-S15
Headphones 1: Sennheiser HD 540 reference
Headphones 2: AKG K-501
Audio-interface: E-MU 1616M PCI
PC Hardware: Intel Core i7-920, 6GB RAM, 1x 640GB HDD (system), 1x 1TB HDD (data)
Operating System: Windows 7 - 64bit
Audio Editor: Adobe Audition 3.0.1 (24bits 96kHz wave)
FLAC convertor: FLAC frontend 1.7.1 (24bits 96kHz flac level 8)
Edit log:
01 Embryo:
finished 2010-12-04
manually removed a few dust-clicks and -pops
cut to start and finish with fade-in of start and fade-out of end
final length: 9m45s
02 Green is the Color - Careful with that Axe, Eugene:
finished 2010-12-04
manually removed a few dust-clicks and -pops
cut to start and finish with fade-in of start and fade-out of end
final length: 10m32s
03 If:
finished 2010-12-04
amplification: 4.7 dB
manually removed a few dust-clicks and -pops
cut to start and finish with fade-in of start and fade-out of end
final length: 4m23s
04 Atom Heart Mother:
finished 2010-12-11
manually removed a few dust-clicks and -pops
cut to start and finish with fade-in of start and fade-out of end
final length: 23m57s
A scan from the original vinyl album cover is included.
For those who appreciate the warmth and the sound of vinyl, enjoy this gem!
HighHopes58
December 2010