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Prodigy   04/24/1992

Norwich Waterfront Live BBC Radio 1 broadcast, Norwich, England
Source 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.
Media
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.

Editing in CEP - Normalisation & minor fades at the tape flip.
There are some technical problems (just 5 or 6 seconds into t02)
and I applied CEP Click removal to the loudest noise. This enabled
greater amplification during normalisation, and has no effect on
the music (maybe I should have tried to reduce these noises more).

Because this was a live broadcast of 5 bands - N-Joi, Orbital,
Basti, Prodigy and The Shamen - there were some unavoidable and
undesirable tape flips. One of them occurs more-or-less at the end
of G-Force and I tracked this break to the start of track 02.

Notes:

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

The fadeout tracks - prodigy1992-04-24t00fadein.wav & prodigy1992-04-24t07fadeout.wav
- may be used if burning this Prodigy recording to CD by itself. If burning in
conjunction with the preceding or following set, omit these 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 20th May 2004
alimac@netcomuk.co.uk

length expanded size cdr WAVE probs filename
0:07.37 1321868 --- -- -xx prodigy1992-04-24t00fadein.shn
4:18.50 45628844 --- -- -xx prodigy1992-04-24t01.shn
4:14.70 44970284 --- -- -xx prodigy1992-04-24t02.shn
5:00.30 52990604 --- -- -xx prodigy1992-04-24t03.shn
3:47.02 40047548 --- -- -xx prodigy1992-04-24t04.shn
4:16.58 45294860 --- -- -xx prodigy1992-04-24t05.shn
3:50.45 40677884 --- -- -xx prodigy1992-04-24t06.shn
0:06.18 1100780 --- -- -xx prodigy1992-04-24t07fadeout.shn
25:42.10 272032672 B (totals for 8 files, 0.7769 overall compression ratio)
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