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Daniel's Collection

Return to Forever   04/07/1974

L'Olympia, Paris, France
Source Stereo audience recording of unknown generation
From the collection of agalli
Speed corrected revision

Original lineage: CDR>EAC>WAV>FLAC
Editing lineage: FLAC > Audacity > MATLAB > FLAC > TLH (align SB) > FLAC (L8)
Checksums 01 Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy.flac:854d63af6b14ba47266b3ff9b17273ac
02 After the Cosmic Rain.flac:323d23ae68c90009ce37dfe04143f5eb
03 Captain Senor Mouse.flac:e7bb7927e114a7b34dd65c4fc75b12b5
04 Chick Corea Solo.flac:ecd4c2950d5130c28d7f1939e4708392
05 Stanley Clarke Acoustic Solo.flac:e78f273422966977c3d104a1ec817972
06 Lenny White Drum Solo.flac:8501e787416893ad61112cbbec367d58
07 Theme to the Mothership.flac:8b2a82f06df8709bf3c2ecf9b9f54285
08 Space Circus.flac:e8c3520ad921209cc770393184e66345
09 Spain.flac:38368e977a60baac957110144cd32a01
Media
Tech Notes mr_mags notes:
Here's another rare RTF Show from 74'. I am a completist when it comes to these guys & this show, despite its
sonic deficiencies, is one of the best I have ever heard. The energy, stretching out, tightness-it's all there
on this one-IMO. Give it a shot.

My measly 2 cents on the recording. it's not hissy or distorted like many recordings from this period. That
said, It's pretty bass heavy (Stanley Fans take note:) & and a little distant. I think if you dial in your EQ &
crank it up you will have a great time listening to what seems like just about the complete concert this night
in Paris. The version of the Spain here is sublime.


Ross (ledwhofloyd) revision notes:
The audio was running slow throughout. There are a significant number of cuts and the speed often changed at
the cuts. Fortunately, within the tape cut segments, the speed was constant enough. What really motivated me to
fix this is that Stanley Clarke's acoustic solo was running over a semitone flat.

Speed adjustments:
Tracks 1-3: +2.7%
Track 4: +2.0%
Track 5: +6.5%
Track 6-7: +1.7%
Track 8: +2.4%
Track 9: +1.5% (first 10:50, then cut), +0.5% (after cut)

This is definitely a stereo recording. Complicating matters is that there are moments where the channel levels
get significantly out of balance. The issue with balancing them is that the level of amplification required
to boost the weaker channel (typically right) can bring out more noticeable hiss when the one channel is very
weak. Still, I decided to balance the channels and accept the hiss.

The first 37 sec of track 1 was missing audio in the right channel so I monoized it by copying from the left.

For tracks 1 and 5 where the balance was significantly off, I did some level adjustments to the right channel
in Audacity first before running it through my automated MATLAB script to complete the balancing.

Some of the cuts in the audio could be cleaned up, but this is all I felt was necessary.
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