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Daniel's Collection

Chick Corea   03/18/1981

Toad's Place, New Haven, CT
Source Taper: Steve H, unknown equipment
Master Cassette Tape > Sony Cassette Deck > CDR, from the collection of agalli
Editing lineage: WAV > MATLAB > foobar2000 (align SB) > FLAC (L8)
Checksums 01 Quartet No 1.flac:c04dea6835ae36001e0aa431ef0a229a
02 Quartet No 3.flac:7f84b0958a164399f17536246e512813
03.flac:cf3a86709064e86e50565427bb9be231
04 Quartet No 2 Part I.flac:1856384cd724d97668f85724093fca24
05 Humpty Dumpty.flac:2198c9d9f19df0e2877ad49a4ac7ba88
06 Quartet No 3 Part II.flac:18c6b5503adfd0ccd7eec03f597c41f3
07.flac:fa3a02d25f08214dedd90bd067c650f4
08 Mirror, Mirror.flac:f39a6f6097dbafaf6b4cd5788ba9edb0
09.flac:75d444135bacb7e7c77cdb89edb52071

01 Quartet No 1.flac:c04dea6835ae36001e0aa431ef0a229a
02 Quartet No 3.flac:7f84b0958a164399f17536246e512813
03.flac:cf3a86709064e86e50565427bb9be231
04 Quartet No 2 Part I.flac:1856384cd724d97668f85724093fca24
05 Quartet No 2 Part IIa.flac:2198c9d9f19df0e2877ad49a4ac7ba88
06 Quartet No 3 Part IIb.flac:18c6b5503adfd0ccd7eec03f597c41f3
07.flac:fa3a02d25f08214dedd90bd067c650f4
08 Mirror, Mirror.flac:f39a6f6097dbafaf6b4cd5788ba9edb0
09.flac:75d444135bacb7e7c77cdb89edb52071
Media
Notes Notes:
-one of the first recordings of this band, right after the making of "Three Quartets"
-at this time period, Steve H was usually recording with Nakamichi CM-300 mics on a Tehnics RS-686DS, but
I'm not sure if that's how this recording was made considering the less than stellar fidelity and the fact
that this is mono
-I'm not sure what track 9 is called (there might be two songs there), maybe Folk Song?
-the recording has several cuts and I have mostly aligned the tracks with the cuts - no audio has been
removed from the transfer
-addendum: after sharing on dime, michaelmee pointed out that track 5 should be titled Humpty Dumpty, so
for the share on TTD, I have renamed tracks 5 and 6 and made a new checksum but the audio is the same

-mono recording: had a pretty large channel phase misalignment of about 11-12 samples (sometimes as low
as 5 samples), which was automatically corrected
-levels are running pretty hot with not a lot of dynamic range
-automatically balanced levels (typically required reducing a channel - usually the right - because the
levels are close to the max)

-transfer generally ran a bit slow - between 0% and 2%, using the piano as the primary reference
-speed varied quite frequently and randomly, sometimes gradually and sometimes abruptly (presumably due to
localized regions of tape stretching/shrinking), so many adjustments were required to keep it in line and
it was not a simple task
-for example, the speed jumped from 1.9% slow to 0.4% slow over about 1 sec at 7:40 of track 2, and then
was back to about 2.0% slow at ~9:00 of track 2 where it remained until the next cut
-there are still some sections where the pitch moderately fluctuates, but relatively quick fluctuations are
best handled by automated algorithms that I don't have, so I mostly dealt with the overall error
Ross (ledwhofloyd), April 2024
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