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Daniel's Collection

Return to Forever   03/27/1975

WPLR-FM Trodnossel Studios, Wallingford, CT
Source Both sources (see notes): pre-FM reels>cassette

Source 1, from Steve H, transferred by doctorzap, mar 2010 ^:
sony cassette>SBAudigy2>PC>Soundforge>CDarchitech>CDR>EAC>Soundforge>TLH>flac

Source 2, from taperchuck3, jan 2014 *:
Dragon nr-out>zoomH4 16/44.1>hcsd 8gb>Audacity>TLH>flac16

Ross (ledwhofloyd) dec 2025 speed/phase corrected remaster and source mix

Additional lineage for source 1 ^: flac>Audacity(remove repeats)>MATLAB(phase correct)>Audacity(EQ for only Vulcan Worlds)>MATLAB(speed correct/balance levels)>flac
Additional lineage for source 2 *: flac>MATLAB(speed correct)>Audacity(EQ)>MATLAB(balance levels)>flac
Mix sources: flac>Audacity>TLH>flac(l8)
Checksums 01 Introduction.flac:25a69fca52ad650c7e3486eee75a1e43
02 Jungle Waterfall.flac:6452acb6f1c8fb3afd3e49f3e6307edb
03 Dayride.flac:0c9e8cb2e5d8f572ec54ebdba2991a1f
04 Beyond the Seventh Galaxy.flac:39bb9173a7087b96e17905d63468251d
05 The Shadow of Lo.flac:33dfce5f03f0c80a0ecafa09e7027303
06 Vulcan Worlds.flac:092716cacf2184c540db8277421cec5c
07 Lopsy Lu.flac:d0de071e3b20ccc9e227cda6f84be00a
08 Celebration Suite.flac:0c20dd22bc8b919dfe5ce50df2bf9c18
09 Space Circus.flac:a115316c044c585a6fe84162cfe7a61c
Media
Notes Steve H (fzmoi69) notes for taperchuck3 (source 2):
After many years of searching I believe this is the final and complete show. As the story
goes if I remember this correctly this broadcast that I originally had was posted here and
around the world years ago it was missing the first 2 songs. The feed from the studio to
the radio station was having problems for the first 2 numbers therefore only the remainder
the show was broadcast. As with the Coryell show I just posted I found someone from the
radio station to raid the vault and grab me the reels from both broadcasts. I could never
find the cassette of the RTF show with the beginning and just found out that my good friend
Taperchuk being the music junkie that he is unknown to me also hunted the same guy down and
got direct transfers of both shows to cassettes - the only difference is thank god he could
still find his. So here it is after 35 years of being lost I know what I know to be the
entire show. Direct from the master reels to cassette to you. This one is for Ian aka
glasnostrd19. Huge thanks to Chuck for making this happen!!!


Ross (ledwhofloyd) notes, Dec 2025:
This project has been in the works for a while. My original plan in 2023 was just to revise
the taperchuck3 source to mainly fix the phase inversion. This would have been similar to
Hairy Botch's remaster of taperchuck3's source, but without his EQ, compression, and
limiting. However, I realized that Lopsy Lu on taperchuck3's transfer was very poor quality
due to tape degradation. As Steve H explained to me, the problem is that taperchuck3
transferred the reels>cassette years later than him and apparently the reels were starting
to suffer from dropouts, loss of fidelity, etc. Hence, a source mix became the preferred
approach, but the added complexity of the project led me to put it on the backburner for
almost 3 years!

doctorzap's transfer of Steve H's cassettes is quite jumbled with parts in the wrong order.
It is very peak limited and I do not love its frequency balance. However, the quality of
Lopsy Lu is significantly better on Steve H's. Ideally, Steve H's tapes could be
retransferred but he explained to me in early 2023 that this was not a realistic option at
the time. It was a closer call for which source to use for Vulcan Worlds and the first half
of Celebration Suite, but I decided that Steve H's tapes were preferrable for them as well.
Steve H's source was missing the first 5 sec of Celebration Suite and the middle ~3 minutes
of Vulcan Worlds so I patched those parts with Chuck's.

Source 1 (Steve H) ^ editing notes:
-the first part of Vulcan Worlds up to the cut (6:43) was 2.35% slow
-the second part of Vulcan Worlds started 3.0% slow, got slower through Lopsy Lu and
ended 3.5% slow
-Celebration Suite started 3.0% slow and started to get even slower about 3 min in,
reaching 3.4% slow when it cut out (~11.5 min)
-So speed corrected
-automatically balanced levels
-moderate EQ to obtain a more natural frequency distribution, which required boosting <100
Hz, attenuating the 200 Hz range, boosting the midrange, and attenuating > 3 kHz

Source 2 (taperchuck3) * editing notes:
-removed repeated ~5 sec at the start
-the first part of the recording was phase inverted
-for mono or narrow stereo field recordings, phase inversion is a serious issue because it
causes the low frequency range from a set of stereo speakers to destructively interfere
with each other, resulting in a thin sound
-The channels are very different on this recording due to strong instrument separation, so
the phase inversion was not as serious a problem as it would be for a mono recording
-Corrected by inverting the left channel for:
-Tracks 1-5 and 6 patch, except for a ~6 sec part after the cut following The Shadow Of Lo
where Lenny White talks

-For tracks 1-5, adjusted the alignment of the channels by 1 sample
-The pitch/speed was mostly fine, except that the 2nd half of Shadow of Lo started to slow
down and ended 1.0% slow, and the 2nd half of Space Circus also started to slow down and
ended 0.5% slow, so I fixed them
-automatically balanced levels
-only EQed the Vulcan Worlds middle section patch to better match the frequency balance of
source 1

Source mixing:
-used short crossfades (<0.5 sec) on both sides of the Vulcan Worlds patch
-no crossfades for the Celebration Suite merges because I could make it sound reasonably
seamless without crossfades due to how the music was performed at the merge points
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