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Poster: | Sean_0000001 | Date: | Apr 10, 2011 11:39pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Europe '72 |
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3A%28GratefulDead%29%20AND%20date%3A[1972-04-07%20TO%201972-05-26]&sort=-date
And found that several dates are repeated a few times. Why is this?
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Poster: | clementinescaboose | Date: | Apr 11, 2011 11:28am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Europe '72 |
http://www.archive.org/details/gd1968-10-12.sbd.miller.86759.sbeok.flac16
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Poster: | Sean_0000001 | Date: | Apr 11, 2011 1:43pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Europe '72 |
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Poster: | polarized blue | Date: | Apr 11, 2011 1:38am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Europe '72 |
Each tape may or may not have been:
Equalized for volume and/or bass/treble response during the taping; maybe Dolby was used too;
May have been recorded from microphones placed in different positions inside the hall - giving a different sound reproduction;
Some tapes may be incomplete- taper ran out of tape; Cassette may have had to be flipped over and missed a few seconds/minutes until the next side started; Maybe someone taped over a portion of the tape with something different; Maybe the tape was already used before the show was taped, result may have been a little weaker than a new tape;
Tape generations: The tape may have been copied one or more times by reel or cassette, each time a tape is copied, a little bit is lost, and maybe a little bit of tape hiss is added each time;
Transfered to digital: analogue (cassette or reel) tapes must be recorded into a digital form to be uploaded. There may have been some variations/fixes made by the person doing the transfer, such as sound levels, noise reduction or enhancements, pitch or tape timing may have been adjusted;
Matrix - a mixture of soundboard and audience sources combined to hear in one listening.
Sometimes, different transfers of the same original source are done with different hardware/software and by different people with different choice in levels for better or worse, changing the sound quality -
All of these variations will make a difference in the final version that you choose to listen to. That's it in a nutshell, and I'm sure there are more things to say about that by our friends who know a lot more about the tech stuff than me. Read some of the reviews and try to make up your mind which ones you agree with to make your listening choice
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Poster: | Jack o' Roses | Date: | Apr 11, 2011 4:41am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Europe '72 |
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Poster: | Sean_0000001 | Date: | Apr 11, 2011 11:06am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Europe '72 |