1974-03-20
The Record Plant
Los Angeles, CA
KMET - Live
35th Anniversary Edition by TheTooleMan!
Pre FM Master Reel (Scotch 176 1/4" 1/2 track @7.5 ips, no NR) > Ampex ATR-100 Tape Machine > Apogee A/D converters @24/96 > Adobe Audition (downsampling, tracking) > WAV > FLAC
(refer to http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/showthread.php?t=43240
Thanks to Weedwacker and especially to Javit for providing the source recordings
Remaster (by TheTooleMan): Sound Forge (eq, tiny amount of pitch correction, re-tracking) -> FLAC
As with many tapes of this vintage, I thought a little more bass was needed. While I was at it, I ironed out a couple of tape wrinkles, too. I debated whether to put this on TTD, but finally said, "What the hell!"
At the end of the broadcast, the announcer thanks "the Sansui quad equipment people" for doing "a great job tonight." I took that as a hint that there may be some SQ encoded material in the tape, so I tried running the tracks through my home-brew SQ decoder. Nothing much popped out, quad-wise. That's not too surprising, since SQ only provides 3 db separation between the front and rear channels. Besides that, this is a pre-FM recording, so the quad encoding may not be present in the audio chain.
I may get adventurous and try some more tricks with this one. If anything good comes out of it, I will seed it here. If anyone has more info on the quad nature of this recording, or KMET in 1974, please let me know.
TheTooleMan
March, 2009
01 - Test Tone
02 - Stalling for time while the drummer is in the bathroom
03 - Bodhisattva
04 - The Boston Rag
05 - Do It Again
06 - Any Major Dude
07 - King Of The World
08 - Rikki Don't Lose That Number
09 - tuning
10 - Pretzel Logic
11 - Your Gold Teeth II (Jam)
12 - Reelin' In The Years
13 - This All Too Mobile Home
14 - Announcer outro
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10 comments:
Actually if they were thanking Sansui it would contain QS encoding and not SQ. I will run it through the QS decoding script of Audition and report back.
Where can I find the artwork of this 35th Anniversary Edition?
it didnt come with tooleman's work but it may be at the traders den at the post
the only think i know about KMET is that is was the best fuckin' FM radio staion in LA to listen to :-)
teb-rox
I remember hearing this for the first time 15 years ago and marvelling at the show and hoping that an official version would be released some day. This is as good as I need - it's exceptional quality work. Many thanks to Mr Tooleman for all his magic and of course to you QB for this marvellous posting.
Jeff Porcaro was the drummer who was in the bathroom for medicinal purposes, that eventually killed him.
It's just an opinion but I would say that the QS encoding is still intact. There is definitely separation of the guitar to the rear channel.
Thank you thank you thank you!
Good stuff, thanks!
Great Post!! Many Thanks
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