Pink Floyd - Santa Monica Civic Auditorium: Santa Monica, California, U.S.A. October 23, 1970 (VgAud) - Quadraphonic 2 Source Matrix

Pink Floyd
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
Santa Monica, California, U.S.A.
October 23, 1970
Quadraphonic Encoded 2 Source Audience Recording Matrix
DVDA Audio Rip
Flac Level 8 & MP3 320kbps
Front Cover Only

Recorder 1 lineage:
master 5" reels @ 7.5 ips (recorded by Dub Taylor) ->
gen1 7" reel @ 3.75 ips Revox B77 w/Dolby (copied by Mike Martin) ->
gen2 Maxell XLII in unknown cassette deck (copied by Rick Sheehy) ->
Nakamichi MR-1 (balanced) -> Apogee PSX-100SE at 24 bit 96KHz (by JFE)


Recorder 2 lineage:
TMOQ vinyl release "Pink Floyd Live Dittolino Discs" -> 24 bit 96KHz WAV (by Doinker)

4.0 Master:
Protools HD2 for mastering
Serato Pitch n' Time plugin used for speed correction for rec 2
UA Precision EQ used on rec 2
WAV -> MLP compression (SurCode MLP) -> DVDA disc image (DiscWelder Chrome)


01 - Fat Old Sun 13:29
02 - Cymbaline 12:03
03 - A Saucerful of Secrets 23:49
04 - Atom Heart Mother (With Orchestra & Choir) 29:14

Total Playing Time: 1hr 18mn 35sc

David Gilmour – electric & acoustic guitars, vocals, effects
Roger Waters – bass, vocals, effects
Richard Wright – keyboards, piano, organ, synthesisers, vocals, effects
Nick Mason – drums, percussion, effects

This is the first in a few Quadraphonic recordings to come from Pink Floyd. This 2 source audience matrix was a great choice for the Quadraphonic treatment. The choices and process are lain out in detail in the info text included with the upload. To try and sum up, both tapers used mono recorders. Both taper's missed songs and had some songs cut. Each had 4 songs they taped in their entirety. They happened to be the same 4 songs. Only the 4 songs both successfully recorded were used.

Taper #1 was close up to the stage and the tape has very good sound in itself. It has been used for many bootleg releases due to it being the most complete, best sounding source. Taper #2 was sitting pretty far back so his tape was used to give the recording it's ambiance. This ambiance is used to great effect, giving the feeling of being in the audience. With your surround speakers set up right the music comes mainly from the front. The sound effects and voices of audience members engulf you from all around.

As I said with the Genesis Quadraphonic show, I have a few of these coming. These will include more Pink Floyd, more Genesis, Caravan, Santana, Barclay James Harvest, Premiata Forneria Marconi, Robin Trower, and Ronnie Lane & Slim Chance to name a few. Most are Pre-FM, some are Soundboard and some are Audience. I found a very generic cover to use since there is no real cover art for a Quad source.

Just like the Genesis recording I can not encode Quadraphonic into MP3. For an MP3 upload I had to use Goldwave to convert the recording to 2 channels. They do have the same matrix mix but are not quadraphonic encoded.

The Flac files were huge so I had to divide them into 5 equal parts. You will need all five parts to unzip the files. The links are interchangeable so I recommend downloading one from each server at a time if you can.

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