1970-November-28 ?	(orig thought to be 70-Nov-11 *)

The "Pictures Of Pink Floyd" Restoration Project (speed corrected)

Saarlandhalle ?		Saarbrücken, West Germany ?


Disc 1  -  76.45
1	Corrosion >		 9.29
2	Embryo			12.16	(21.16)
3	Fat Old Sun		13.50
4	Green Is The Colour	 3.32
5	Atom Heart Mother	18.53
6	Saucerful Of Secrets	18.42


*  this recording was previously thought to be from 70-Nov-11.
   Once a different recording surfaced that was from 70-Nov-11. The 
   date of the new recording was deemed more reliable, so "Pictures Of" 
   was left undated. As there were only two other November 1970 shows 
   that did not have a recording (Nov-12 2nd show + Nov-28) it was 
   thought that "Pictures Of" is from one of those. Currently the 
   Nov-28 date is deemed more likely by people debating this.
   

I dropped the 71-Feb-26 tracks from this recording:
	3. Blues			 6.13
	4. Atom Heart Mother (excerpt)	 3.02



Notes that came with this Speed Corrected recording:

This is a speed correction of Doinker's recent 
Pictures of Pink Floyd Restoration Project post.

The entire album was running slightly fast. Then of course there 
were the really bad speed problems in Atom Heart Mother. This 
track needed special attention. I'm quite pleased with the results.

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Notes that came with the original Restoration Project recording:

The "Pictures Of Pink Floyd" Restoration Project 

This is IMO the most special Pink Floyd concert experience 
ever recorded. The quality and rarity of "The Librest Spacement 
Monitor" justifies all the hype, and at last you can hear it 
in the best possible manner. 

First of all, something for you to consider: 

This was a cooperative effort, requiring the talents and input 
of several people of different nationalities. 

Lastly, a great thank you to Mr (Herr) Peter D, who brought the 
albums across the Atlantic and back, made it both ways with both 
his sanity and his records intact, and who has granted me 
permission to post this material on his behalf. Also thanks to 
KF and ED for tea and sympathy. 

Technical Data: 

Records were played on a Technics Sl-1200MK2 turntable, using a 
Layla 3G console directly into a Dell computer. There was no sound 
card used during the recording process (the Layla generates a 
virtual card). Music recording was directly processed by Sound Forge 
6.0. Too much high-quality percussion existed within the recordings 
to use a vinyl restoration suite. A digital spot remover was used 
manually to remove the larger clicks and crackles, then an automatic 
remover was used afterwards. Results were real-time compared with 
the raw wav file, both by monitoring from the computer, and by 
auditioning a test-pressing on a home-theatre system. Unfortunately, 
there was a major flaw found in the vinyl on side one at around the 
5.15 mark. That was 'jiggled' as much as possible after rerecording 
the entire side and starting over. 

Side Four (Pictures Vol 2, Side Two) presented special problems. As 
is generally known, the recording of Atom Hear Mother starts out fine, 
but gradually gets faster and faster. A map was made by consensus, of 
the many pitch changes relative to the beginning of the piece. 
Unfortunately, it isn't just a linear speed change, where it would be 
easy to "just slow it down". The pitch of known musical interludes was 
manually compared and adjusted via the Sound Forge "pitch bend" and 
"pitch shift" functions. It quickly got confusing and very complicated 
to do all the changes relative to one another, and about 15 seconds 
could not be totally corrected. After a while, keeping any adherance to 
any form of zero crossing had to be discarded. This is because the pitch 
shift did not always occur during a zero crossing, and nothing could be 
done about it. Sometimes you will hear a zero-crossing noise during the 
speed corrections. The end product is not perfect, no one involved was 
totally happy with it. To do better would have required starting over 
again, and it might not be any better after finishing. It is listenable 
to, however and is a major improvement over the original recording. 
The very slight pitch change of the end relative to the beginning of 
Atom Heart Mother *may* be part of the original performance. This is 
a different version of this song than the version on Volume 1! 

For you sticklers about original recordings, the original untouched 
fourth side is presented as track four 

A small amount of noise reduction was used on all record sides. 
Fortunately, the lowest level of the sound recording is way above 
the lowest level of surface noise. A sample was made of "dead space", 
both before and after the recording. The lower volume level was used 
to remove noise. No EQ of any sort was used. 

Finally, the end results were approved by consensus. 

Now, on to the Music! 

*Play this music as loud as possible!* To hell with the neighbors! 
During the "Embryo" portion, I want to see your cat explode! 

:-D 

At a minimum, the announcer's voice should be audible over any ambient room noise. 


There has been some lively discussion about what the announcer is 
saying in the beginning of The Librest Spacement Monitor. He is 
actually introducing one "Nicholas Mason". 

What IS "The Librest Spacement Monitor?" It's *not* a different version 
of "The Embryo", it is a seperate, unique piece all on its own. Whether 
that was planned, or improvised on the spot is not part of the equation. 
How is that possible? Artists often incorporate pieces of their existing 
songs into new projects. Pink Floyd is no exception. If you have ever 
heard "The Man" or "The Journey", you know that song titles have been 
changed and portions put into other pieces. Need an example? OK - 
"The Violent Sequence" became "Us and Them". 

The other titles are also rather interesting. Everybody seems to be singing 
in tune, even Roger seems to be enjoying himself. 

Setlist: 

Pictures 1
1. The Librest Spacement Monitor	21.16
2. Fat Old Sun				13.29
3. Blues				 6.13
4. Atom Heart Mother - excerpt		 3.02

Pictures 2
1. Green Is The Colour			 3.52
2. A Saucerful Of Secrets		17.48
3. Atom Heart Mother (altered)		19.03
4. Atom Heart Mother (original)		15.16

Please post comments, we would all like to hear them. By the request 
of Mr (Herr) D, no artwork is available. Please check the many 
available Pink Floyd ROIO sites for artwork. 

Lastly, we don't know any better than you do where some of this material 
was recorded. Where do you think? We would like to know. Marbal's 
Offenbach torrent solved some of the date questions, but not all. 

Engineered by Doinker in his "studio" from the original vinyl, all 
subsequent actions done in a group meeting with other crazy people 
during the week of March 6, 2006. 

Enjoy!

A DoinkerTape