PINK FLOYD - Montreux Pre-FM Source (JFE Stereo Master) - Montreux, Switzerland 1971-09-18 скачать в хорошем качестве

PINK FLOYD - Montreux Pre-FM Source (JFE Stereo Master) - Montreux, Switzerland 1971-09-18

Pink Floyd live at the Pavillon De Montreux in Montreux, Switzerland on September 18th, 1971. This is a stereo folddown of Jimfisheye's quad restoration of the Montreux pre-FM source. The quality is excellent and makes it one of the best sounding shows of '71, and far exceeds any of the other releases that I've heard. Regarding the artwork, neither the original pre-FM source or JFE's restoration came with any, so I decided to use the artwork from the Sigma 113 release of the same show. Track listing: 0:00 - Echoes 23:29 - Careful With That Axe, Eugene 36:09 - Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun 50:23 - Cymbaline 1:03:40 - Atom Heart Mother 1:37:20 - A Saucerful Of Secrets Information about the audio and its source(s): Pink Floyd 1971-09-18 Montreux, Radio Suisse Romande pre-FM source JFE quad restoration Pink Floyd Festival de Musique Classique, Pavillon De Montreux, Montreux, Switzerland Radio Suisse Romande open air mics recording 18 September 1971 Pink Floyd concerts were mixed live in quadraphonic surround sound. This excellent pre FM archival stereo recording captures the band and front of stage stereo PA. It's so up close that the side and rear quad speakers are very far away in the recording. The parts panning around the room drop out of the stereo mix. This led to some quad experiments. I wondered if the footsteps and doors tape was panned in a circle around the room live by the sound engineer at these shows. For this recording we are just hearing the parts that panned across the front from that. I found a clear recording of the footsteps to isolate from a different show - recorded from a different perspective to capture the full fx tape. Matched the timing with this show and panned it in a circle to match up with the parts panning across the front. It's the same fx tape and it drops right in. Next up was patching some of the quad panned keyboard parts in the surround play section of STC. Rick could fly a part around the room at will and did this throughout the show but STC was the showpiece for the sound in motion. The more sparse and sometimes isolated parts led to being able to sample them well enough to use to fill in some of the holes where they were originally panning around. A few other spots throughout the show were able to be patched a little but there was too much background music to be able to do much more. I used the audience source just sparingly too. It's also close to the stage and a close match to the radio recording for mix and lack of surround but it does have just slightly more room sound. I probably used it so the rear speakers weren't silent a lot of the time. The footsteps part is nearly spot on I think. The keys patching in STC sounds close to real and less distracting than the way it sounds with dropouts all over the place in those spots. Those are the two spots where this recording goes genuinely discrete surround sound. I used the audience source more to "raise the volume of the room" in the louder spots where the raw recording either gets a little too pushed or it's missing enough of the surround activity to sound starved. Especially in Eugene with that. The quieter spacey parts especially in Echoes, AHM and ASOS do get a bit immersive between the two recorders. This was an experiment and still incomplete for how good some of it sounds. Gentle restoration and mastering work for accurate natural sound. Some parts of the original quad sound and the way the louder parts would have hit in the venue are restored. The main goal throughout was not damaging the excellent stereo mix as recorded and preserved. Everything is accurate to the performance with no doctoring. Only restoration that was authentic to the original sound was considered. The one rare exception I have made here is to edit out the enormous feedback blast from STC. Jimfisheye, August 2025