Pink Floyd 1971-06-26 Early Tours LP, Amsterdam Recorder 1 (24bit/96kHz)
Pink Floyd
Amstel Free Concert, Amsterdamse Bos, Amsterdam, Holland, Recorder 1
26 June 1971
Lineage: First pressing > Micro Seiki DQX-1000 turntable (Denon high-output MC stylus) > Yamaha DSP-AX3200 receiver > Focusrite Saffire Pro 24 > Audacity > FLAC (24bit/96kHz) > Neonknight (see notes below) > FLAC (24bit/96kHz)
xACT used to create FFP
01 Careful With That Axe, Eugene
02 Cymbaline
03 Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
04 A Saucerful Of Secrets
05 The Embryo
Total running time 59 mins 54 secs
A fine performance and excellent stereo audience recording by the N brothers. It is known that the brothers used a Uher Report reel-to-reel at high speed and two Sennheiser microphones to record Hamburg 1971-02-25 and they probably used the same equipment on this occasion.
Preclicktrack received his first pressing of the album - multicoloured sleeve, white text on blue background, excellent print quality, etc. - as a birthday present from a couple of classmates in 1976 or 1977. He kindly sent me his high res transfer to work on.
I tidied the recording up a little, ensuring that I took a light touch:
1. Reaper - trimmed dead air at the start and end of each side, export to WAV
2. ClickRepair - automated, declick 20, decrackle 20, x3 method; a non-destructive approach to removing some of the clicks and crackles
3. iZotope RX3 - high quality digital clipping declip at the beginning of CWTAE
4. Reaper - speed corrected STC and ASOS, divide tracks, moved The Embryo to the end and exported to FLAC.
Neonknight / Preclicktrack, November 2014