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Comments:
This is a soundboard recording of a rehearsal in a small
London studio with The Bleeding Heart Band. It is an absolutely
clean studio take complete with chatter between and during
tracks. This is not the final, full-up rehearsal with all
of the artists that appeared in Berlin.
The story:
Someone who worked in the post-production studio made a
copy of the master tape, or plugged his recorder into the
soundboard. He then took a studio stock pre-printed cassette
cover and typed the title and date of the rehearsal on it.
The cassette cover reads:
2.5.90 Roger Waters Rehearsals The Wall Berlin
Preprinted cassette information:
The Town House Post Production 140 Goldhawk Road, London,
along with address and phone number
The studio still exists under a slightly different name.
Special thanks to The Big Pig and The Pentagon Pig at FRP
for making this available.
Remastering by MOB Artwork created by Moonwall
Remastering notes from MOB:
For the main rehearsal (stereo) I worked on track indexing
and level adjustments. For the second rehearsal (mono, tracks
10-13 of CD2), I realized that the speed was different from
the main rehearsal. By comparing Waiting For The Worms and
The Tide Is Turning, I immediately noticed that the second
rehearsal ran too slow. My suspicion is that the end of
the tape was probably copied by a studio worker from another
rehearsal tape, perhaps adding one gen to the lineage. My
applied speed correction resulted in a 98% fix. I also applied
a very slight EQ to Waiting For The Worms in order to decrease
the "bassy" sound and to create a more natural transition
between the last track of the main rehearsal (The Tide Is
Turning) and the first track of the second rehearsal (Waiting
For The Worms). I also did some editing in order to smooth
out the abrupt cut during the judge's sentence in The Trial.
BTW, I realized that the tape of The Trial that is played
during the rehearsal, is not simply the regular version
converted to mono. The voices are really mixed upfront and
during the judge's sentence, you can hear the orchestra,
but not Gilmour's guitars from the official release. I think
this is a really unique mix of The Trial, specifically used
for these rehearsals.
Happy Holidays!
RonToon
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