1970-July-18

Pink Floyd	Hyde Park (recorder 2 + 1)

Blackhills Garden Party, Hyde Park Free Concert

Hyde Park	London, England


Disc 1  -  62.50
1	Blues > Embryo *		12.06	rec 1
2	Tuning	 			 1.16	rec 2
3	Green Is The Colour >		 3.26	"
4	Careful With That Axe		 9.15	"
5	Set The Controls		12.41	"
6	Atom Heart Mother		24.04	"


* The transition to Embryo comes at 2.26


The rec 2 recording, though fuller than the rec 1 version
(which has practically no bass), suffered from having too 
much bass and an overall muddy sound.  I worked on it a 
bit to clear it up.  Here's what I did:

rec 2:  - amp (Audacity) > high pass @ 400hz (Audacity) > 
+ high freq eq (Gold Wave) > some misc cleaning (Audacity) > 
+ amp (Audacity)

It now has much better clarity and brightness.



Notes that came with the Rec 2 recording:

Sound Quality: VG/VG+
Source: Audience (recorder 2) 
Generation: unknown source > FLAC

Well well well... for years getting the Hyde Park recording was a holy quest,
and in the lapse of 2 years, two different recorders surfaced! This new
recorder 2 sounds much better than recorder 1, missing Blues > Embryo but
having AHM! -which seems genuine-...

Recording sounds really nice compared to rec1, this seems to be recorded
somewhat near backstage...you can hear the brass section rehearsing
between CWTAE & STC, and you can hear lots of movement of people.
About AHM... i checked with all the others orchestra version and this one
seems genuine, or at least, never heard it till today. The banter at the end
('thank you... ok... we'd like to do some more but we gotta take our ....'
or something) is not present on any other AHM performance....

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scottstades comment:  actually what Roger says is:
'Thank you.  OK.  We'd love to do some more but they're going to turn the power 
off now.  They left it on for some extra minutes.  Thank you very much.'
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There's been some discussion about this source being lossy or not.. some
people here at Y did a great investigative job on this,
http://www.yeeshkul.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5442) i'd recommend
you to go there and search for the thread and read what's been said.
(avoid the insults).

I've only created an md5 file since it came without one. -gbc