Pink Floyd 
The "Pictures Of Pink Floyd" Restoration Project


CD 1
- PICTURES 1:
1. The Librest Spacement Monitor 
2. Fat Old Sun 
3. Blues  
4. Atom Heart Mother - excerpt  

CD 2
- PICTURES 2:
1. Green Is The Colour 
2. A Saucerful Of Secrets 
3. Atom Heart Mother 


Sources: 06feb71 London 1.1-2.1 
These are often refered to as London 6th February 1971 
But are most likely Europe late 1970 2.2-2.3 Offenbach, 
West Germany 26th February 1971  


This is IMO the most special Pink Floyd concert experience ever recorded. 
The quality and rarity of "The Librest Spacement Monitor" justifies all 
the hype, and at last you can hear it in the best possible manner. 

First of all, something for you to consider:

This was a cooperative effort, requiring the talents and input of several 
people of different nationalities. The material presented is of sufficient 
rarity to warrant the following statements:

Don't even THINK of auctioning or selling this material for your own 
monetary gain. Internet auctions will be monitored both in Europe and 
in the United States. We'll know what to do about that if it happens, 
the rest is up to you. The message is clear and simple: It's free, keep it 
that way, we mean what we say. And... don't shoot the messenger.

It is strongly recommended that you keep all the files intact when trading 
this material to other groups. Feel free to add your own comments.

Please do not encode to lossy sources when trading this material.

Lastly, a great thank you to Mr. (Herr) Peter D., who brought the albums 
across the Atlantic and back, made it both ways with both his sanity and 
his records intact, and who has granted me permission to post this material 
on his behalf. Also thanks to K.F. and E.D. for tea and sympathy.

Technical Data:

Records were played on a Technics Sl-1200MK2 turntable, using a Layla 3G 
console directly into a Dell computer. There was no sound card used during 
the recording process (the Layla generates a virtual card). 
Music recording was directly processed by Sound Forge 6.0. 
Too much high-quality percussion existed within the recordings to use 
a vinyl restoration suite. A digital spot remover was used manually to 
remove the larger clicks and crackles, then an automatic remover was used 
afterwards. Results were real-time compared with the raw wav file, both by 
monitoring from the computer, and by auditioning a test-pressing on 
a home-theatre system. Unfortunately, there was a major flaw found in 
the vinyl on side one at around the 5:15 mark. That was 'jiggled' as much 
as possible after rerecording the entire side and starting over.

Side Four (Pictures Vol 2, Side Two) presented special problems. 
As is generally known, the recording of Atom Hear Mother starts out fine, 
but gradually gets faster and faster. A map was made by consensus, 
of the many pitch changes relative to the beginning of the piece. 
Unfortunately, it isn't just a linear speed change, where it would be easy 
to "just slow it down". The pitch of known musical interludes was manually 
compared and adjusted via the Sound Forge "pitch bend" and "pitch shift" 
functions. It quickly got confusing and very complicated to do all 
the changes relative to one another, and about 15 seconds could not 
be totally corrected. After a while, keeping any adherance to any form 
of zero crossing had to be discarded. This is because the pitch shift 
did not always occur during a zero crossing, and nothing could be done 
about it. Sometimes you will hear a zero-crossing noise during the speed 
corrections. The end product is not perfect, no one involved was totally 
happy with it. To do better would have required starting over again, 
and it might not be any better after finishing. It is listenable to, 
however and is a major improvement over the original recording. 
The very slight pitch change of the end relative to the beginning 
of Atom Heart Mother *may* be part of the original performance. 
This is a different version of this song than the version on Volume 1!

For you sticklers about original recordings, the original untouched 
fourth side is presented as track four

A small amount of noise reduction was used on all record sides. 
Fortunately, the lowest level of the sound recording is way above 
the lowest level of surface noise. A sample was made of "dead space", 
both before and after the recording. The lower volume level was used 
to remove noise. No EQ of any sort was used.

Finally, the end results were approved by consensus.

Now, on to the Music!

*Play this music as loud as possible!* To hell with the neighbors! 
During the "Embryo" portion, I want to see your cat explode!

:-D

At a minimum, the announcer's voice should be audible over 
any ambient room noise.


There has been some lively discussion about what the announcer is saying 
in the beginning of The Librest Spacement Monitor. He is actually 
introducing one "Nicholas Mason".

What IS "The Librest Spacement Monitor?" It's *not* a different version 
of "The Embryo", it is a seperate, unique piece all on its own. 
Whether that was planned, or improvised on the spot is not part 
of the equation. How is that possible? Artists often incorporate pieces 
of their existing songs into new projects. Pink Floyd is no exception. 
If you have ever heard "The Man" or "The Journey", you know that song 
titles have been changed and portions put into other pieces. 
Need an example? OK - "The Violent Sequence" became "Us and Them".

The other titles are also rather interesting. Everybody seems to be 
singing in tune, even Roger seems to be enjoying himself.

Please post comments, we would all like to hear them. By the request of 
Mr. (Herr) D., no artwork is available. Please check the many available 
Pink Floyd ROIO sites for artwork.

Lastly, we don't know any better than you do where some of this material 
was recorded. Where do you think? We would like to know. 
Marbal's Offenbach torrent solved some of the date questions, but not all.

Engineered by Doinker in his "studio" from the original vinyl, all 
subsequent actions done in a group meeting with other crazy people during 
the week of March 6, 2006.

Enjoy! Don't forget, selling has consequences you don't want to deal with!

A DoinkerTape
       


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