PINK FLOYD (1,2,3,4) (24bit/96kHz)
GROSSER SAAL, MUSIKHALLE, HAMBURG, GERMANY, February 25th 1971
Original first press double vinyl LPs (without labels)
Pressed in Germany in 1971
Also available is a downsampled 16bit/44.1Khz version torrented separately.
(03:44) Green Is The Colour
(10:42) Careful With That Axe, Eugene
(10:50) Cymbaline
(10:37) The Embryo
(13:15) Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
(18:18) A Saucerful Of Secrets
(28:12) Atom Heart Mother (with orchestra and choir)
95 min and 40 sec Total Time
Lineage : 2X vinyl LPs > Echo Audio Fire 4 > WAV 24bit/96Khz > declick and speed correction > FLAC 24bit/96Khz
-Vince's mastering notes-
Removed the few big pops manually and then an automatic declicking with slightly "conservative" settings.
Fixed tiny dropout on Cymbaline (which is present on any version of this show).
Adjusted the speed. Side A and B ran slow by almost 4%, Side C by around 3,5%, Side D by around 2,5%.
Some occasional surface/wear noises here and there at the beginning of side1 during the songs GITC and the
beginning of CWTAE, but generally, despite being a 42 years old vinyl, the sound of these records is cleaner and
has a fuller, warmer and more natural SQ than the other circulating vinyl versions of this recording I have reviewed,
including of course, M502.
Anyway, the records look like a very good german pressing quality and they're very thick and heavy. These are
from the very first pressing made in Germany in 1971, the gatefold cover is laminated both outside and inside,
where there are the songs titles. The inside is of the same thickness as the outer. Matrix numbers are only the
numbers 1 , 2 , 3 , 4, handscratched respectively on each side. The famous "M-502" matrix number appeared on
the later re-releases of this bootleg and it's not present on these records. Vince, April 2013.
Further comments on the pictures of these vinyl LPs:
On side1 and side3, on the label area, there is the residue of the glue of some tiny sticky labels, likely put there
(and removed) by previous owner of these vinyl LPs. On the label area of the side4, there is a weird residue of
dark-grey/black ink from some labels of some other records... not easy to take a pic of it as it is dark grey on the black
vinyl surface and then visible much easier directly with eyes and with the help of some light to make it reflect a bit more.
My best guess is that perhaps there was a residue of ink from some labels of what they were pressing
on the same pressing machine just before this one... or something like that...
Anyway, what you can read on that residue of label is that it's some record pressed in Germany in 1971,
which reinforces the idea that this press of pf1234 is just from 1971 and, thus, the very first press.
There are also pages from Scacco Matto (my original paper copy of the book I had just when it was printed in late
1989 to early 1990) where you can see the history of the various pressings of this one.
I also included in the torrent folder the saved page from the online version of Scacco Matto that you can visit here:
(homepage) http://digilander.libero.it/pinkside/scacco_matto.htm
(saved page) http://digilander.libero.it/pinkside/sm_roio_o-p.htm
You can see that this press with only 1,2,3,4 and no labels is just the first one mentioned on Scacco Matto.
More detailed infos about the vinyl versions into an 'extra info' folder.
FOR FREE SHARING, NEVER SELL IT!
Enjoy,
Vince, april 2013.