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Pink Floyd   11/22/1970

Altes Casino, Montreux, Switzerland
Source HRV CDR 037. Multiple sources. See Tech Notes.
Checksums 6a67f8638e78cb98587d118fdcfe96c2 *101 Astronomy Domine.flac
a75658007df77dcca69d96576130ba18 *102 Fat Old Sun.flac
f2c19d78102e731a5d533d88621d5e29 *103 Cymbaline.flac
53aabba54edd2ee9434623fa529a8294 *104 Atom Heart Mother.flac
0b5a3fe63bdf67089e91e1fe3959c11c *105 Embryo.flac
c82e1f92dad54268cbb32d44c2bfe2e0 *201 Green Is The Colour.flac
a1e02ef4706af17aee7fa49a9dd77cd5 *202 Careful With That Axe Eugene.flac
f3004ff4c85c3c0a8f9d236eada5d8a6 *203 Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun.flac
9f536063e626dfcf8f7a5a6f743cf385 *204 A Saucerful Of Secrets.flac
6459e011d31ece0223dcbd59322730c4 *205 Interstellar Overdrive.flac
Media CDR   2 discs
Notes Also available in FLAC. 'Too Early For A Gig' (HRV CDR 037). See Tech Notes for specific details regarding this recording.
Tech Notes PINK FLOYD
The Montreux 40th Anniversary Series
Too Early For A Gig (HRV CDR 037)

Montreux Casino, 22Nov70

Remastering by MOB
Quality Control and artwork by RonToon
Produced by Harvested Records

Disc One
1. Astronomy Domine
2. Fat Old Sun
3. Cymbaline
4. Atom Heart Mother
5. Embryo

Disc Two
1. Green Is The Colour
2. Careful With That Axe, Eugene
3. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
4. A Saucerful Of Secrets
5. Interstellar Overdrive

Sources:
CD1 tracks 1-4: "Smoking Blues" bootleg (FBR 001/002)
CD1 track 5 and CD2 tracks 1-4: "Reeling On Pink Floyd - Tape 24": Master Reel > 1st gen reel copy > cassette copy > DAT@48khz > WAV@48khz > SHN@48khz
CD2 track 5: Victor's 2009 transfer: 2 x Sennheiser MD-421 > Uher 4200 reel recorded at 19 ips > Audio CD > EAC > FLAC


This is the second of the two 1970 concerts at Montreux Casino. The first one (from 21Nov70) was released in November 2010 under the title "Too Late For Mind Expanding" (HRV CDR 036). This second performance, hastily added for the 22Nov70 afternoon at 2.30pm, is entitled "Too Early For A Gig" (HRV CDR 037).

While "Too Late For Mind Expanding" was mainly based on Victor's raw transfer from (some of) his mastertapes shared in November 2009, for this second date we only had Interstellar Overdrive from that transfer. Hopefully, four other tracks recorded by Victor on 22Nov70 surfaced in 1995 on the "Smoking Blues" bootleg, with superb sound quality despite the fact that this bootleg is probably sourced from a 1st or 2nd gen tape. For the rest of the show, we used an alternate source, from a different recorder: "Reeling On Pink Floyd - Tape 24".

The first four songs of the show were remastered from "Smoking Blues". Speed was corrected, slight EQ was applied and channel balance was adjusted. The main problem with "Smoking Blues" is the presence of annoying distorsion during the loud parts, mainly in the right channel, probably due to saturation during the dubbing process of Victor's tape for the copy used by the bootleggers. All RoIOs using "Smoking Blues" or its tape source (like "Before The Fire") have that analog saturation problem during the loud parts (this is not a digital saturation that could be corrected by clip restoration). On "Good Morning Folks" RoIO (from Inner Circle Production 1998), the distorsion was partly attenuated, but is still noticeable and the sound quality was altered in the process. For the present Harvested release, the distorsion has been manually attenuated with no impact on the clarity of the recording and we are very proud of the result, since this is the first time that you can enjoy the loud parts of Atom Heart Mother or Fat Old Sun without this saturation.

In order to have the most complete version of that concert, tunings and announcements that were cut on "Smoking Blues", were restored using the "Reeling Tape 24" source. A missing portion of Cymbaline, edited on "Smoking Blues" (probably to hide a tape flip) was restored for this release, again from the "Reeling Tape 24" source (from 04'10" to 04'55").

The five next songs, from Embryo to A Saucerful Of Secrets, were remastered from the "Reeling Tape 24" recording. Speed was corrected, and EQ was applied in order to bring more presence. The balance between channels needed some attention, especially for Embryo, where the left channel was suffering from severe fluctuations. It became better with Green Is the Colour, but the left channel remained the most problematic one, with more dropouts and tape flaws than the right channel. All these flaws were carefully corrected or attenuated. The tracks sourced from "Reeling Tape 24" are more hissy than the ones from "Smoking Blues", but the hiss could not be reduced without altering the clarity of the recording, so it was decided to leave it as it is.

The last song, Interstellar Overdrive, was remastered from Victor's 2009 raw transfer, except the last 5 minutes that were missing on Victor's tape and were restored from "Reeling Tape 24". Even if "Reeling Tape 24" has a more complete version of Interstellar overdrive, the very last chords are missing. These were restored by taking another audience recording from that era for the very end of the song and the last applauses.


Enjoy !

MOB (March 11, 2012)
Harvested Records
Trades Allowed Yes   Traded from: dimeadozen / RonToon
Ratings Show: A+    Sound: A+
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