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Orbital   04/24/1992

Norwich Waterfront Live BBC Radio 1 broadcast, Norwich, England
Source SB>?>BBC Radio 1 FM broadcast>TDK SA-C90 Cassette master>
Media CDR   1 disc
Tech Notes Note: The Sony JE530 is a minidisc recorder, however
a pure digital output is available when using it as a
"passthrough" device. Therefore, despite the presence
of a minidisc device in this lineage there is no MD/
ATRAC compression.
J-Card Comment Orbital

Norwich Waterfront 1992-04-24
Live BBC Radio 1 broadcast.

SB>?>BBC Radio 1 FM broadcast>TDK SA-C90 Cassette master>
>Sony JE530 A/D>Nomad J3>Dio2448>.wav>CEP>.wav>MKW 0.97b>
.shn with seek tables appended.

Note: The Sony JE530 is a minidisc recorder, however
a pure digital output is available when using it as a
"passthrough" device. Therefore, despite the presence
of a minidisc device in this lineage there is no MD/
ATRAC compression.

1. Introduction 0:14
2. Choice 5:04
3. Farenheit 3D3 6:34
4. Chime Crime 5:07
5. (tape flip at 1:30) 4:01
6. 4:37
7. Speed Freak 6:13

Total time : [31:50]

Editing in CEP - Normalisation- no other editing.


Notes:

Part of a live broadcast of 5 bands - N-Joi, Orbital, Basti, The
Prodigy and The Shamen.

The fadeout tracks - orbital1992-04-24t00fadein.wav & orbital1992-04-24t08fadeout.wav
- may be used if burning this Orbital recording to CD by itself. Alternatively,
if burning with the preceding N-Joi set. and/or the following Basti set, omit
the corresponding fade tracks.

This recording has a peculiar audio signature - one that I have never seen before, and
am unable to explain. The positive sample peaks (those "above the line") peak at about
3/4 of the negative sample values - those "below the line". This means that although
the .wav files were normalised, the positive peaks are far from hitting the maximum
sample value, the negative peaks get very close. This is not simply a DC offset issue -
applyiny DC offset correction does not change matters. There was something very odd
about this sound as it was broadcast by the BBC, and this peculiarity is present (and
visible) on the audio for each of the 5 performers. The recordings were spread across
2 cassette tapes; nevertheless playback justs perfectly 'normal' (to my ears).

Transferred from cassette 7th April 2004
alimac@netcomuk.co.uk

length expanded size cdr WAVE probs filename
0:04.02 710348 --- -- -xx orbital1992-04-24t00fadein.shn
0:13.51 2413196 --- -- -xx orbital1992-04-24t01.shn
5:04.11 53651516 --- -- -xx orbital1992-04-24t02.shn
6:34.00 69501644 --- -- -xx orbital1992-04-24t03.shn
5:06.61 54121916 --- -- -xx orbital1992-04-24t04.shn
4:01.06 42526556 --- -- -xx orbital1992-04-24t05.shn
4:37.01 48865196 --- -- -xx orbital1992-04-24t06.shn
6:13.02 65801948 --- -- -xx orbital1992-04-24t07.shn
0:04.10 729164 --- -- -xx orbital1992-04-24t08fadeout.shn
31:57.69 338321484 B (totals for 9 files, 0.7826 overall compression ratio)

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