Notes as they came with the files:
Well here it is at last the lost tape from the 18th July Hyde Park 1970 - this is the genuine article.
It is a shame that this recording is not complete as it is missing the Atom Heart Mother.
I was contacted by the guy who taped the show and this is a transfer direct from his master tape.

The transfer was carried out as follows: -
The transfer was made on 10th September 2005 from the master BASF L-C60 cassette
Transfer made as follows: -
Nakamichi ZX-7 cassette deck.
Manual adjustment to height and azimuth of playback head to match that of the original tape recorder and to optimise the sound.
Direct connection to analogue input of Audiophile 2496 soundcard via high quality Clicktronic interconnects with 24K gold plugs.
Recording made to Wav file at 44.1kHz

I fixed a few pop's so that I could normalise the recording but apart from that this is an unaltered version of this show The sound quality ranges from good to very good, there are some microphone "nudge" noises and some wind noise. The show was recorded using a mono Phillips cassette recorder with a microphone mounted on a 6 foot pole. The taper, David, was sat about 100 meters from the stage to the left of centre.

Overall the recording quality is mostly very good. Some wind noise is picked up by the microphones and also the quality of the sound changes due to wind "blowing the sound around". Occasionally there is a little distortion but really nothing to complain about considering how this show was taped.

Steven Carr - 18th December 2005
www.LiveMasterTapes.co.uk

Personally this was better than I had imaged. The sound quality is actually very clear apart from a fair amount of hiss, and wind noise. It is very usual possibly unique to hear a Blues intro to Embryo which makes this release worth having for that alone. I found the hiss was quite substantial so I have reduce it using Audition, making the sound much clearer and more pleasant to listen to. As the whole show is only 38mins, I have decided to create a CD of the original sound followed by the much improved version with hiss reduction without introducing any artefacts.

Reduced Hiss version (much clearer without the hiss):
1. Blues Intro - Embryo (12.37)
2. Green is the Colour (4.04)
3. Careful with that axe, Eugene (8.10)
4. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun (13.11)

Original untreated recording:
1. Blues Intro - Embryo (12.37)
2. Green is the Colour (4.04)
3. Careful with that axe, Eugene (8.10)
4. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun (13.11)

Recording Lineage: audience / Philips cassette recorder with a microphone mounted on a 6 foot pole>cass[Master]- BASF L-C60 > Nakamichi ZX-7 cassette deck > Audiophile 2496 via high quality Clicktronic interconnects with 24K gold plugs > wav > flac