Royal Festival Hall 72 (16-Bit Matrix Learm) (BOWSTAT007-16RM)

Artist: David Bowie
Date: 1972-07-08
Venue: Royal Festival Hall
City: London
Country: England

Matrix of 2 different audience recordings from the same show.

Source 1: length 80:06 min., in 18 flac files (96 kHz/24 bit), g+/vg- quality by our private collector (new to circulation?) (BOWSTAT007-24RAW)
Source 2: length 72:27 min., in 17 flac files (48 kHz/16 bit), vg+ quality, downloaded from HungerCity (upload by jallaweb October 29th 2012)

Processing:
Flac files of 2 recordings > Foobar2000 convert to 44,1/16 > Magix Music Cleaning Lab (Matrix/Remaster 44,1/16) > BowieStation

Comments:

Source 1:

The recording is complete, incl. the spoken intro and the full Ode to Joy intro.
Compared to source 2 the speed was approx. 4 % slower. I decided to adjust the speed to source 2 as this tape seems to be a lower gen.
The tape has a lot of hiss which had to be removed as much as possible. More hiss at low levels which partly is still present. I left it because otherwise too much of the sound would be lost.
The recording has more bass than source 2.
The taper was standing closer to some people which were clapping and sometimes talking (the taper himself?)
Sound level on left channel lower than right channel (adjusted)
Some small cuts between tracks.


Source 2:

The sound of this is much better than that of source 1. Very nice and balanced sound, only some bass missing.
During I Feel Free there is a cut in the middle which was halfway fixed (already made in a former remaster) with a passage of lower sound quality. I decided to cut this out and replace the whole passage (approx. 15 seconds) with source 1.



At the end I made some level adjustments with the completed matrix and added more bass.
Even if the sound of source 2 is already very good the matrix is even better as it gives the recording more depth and a really well balanced sound. I would rate the result now as one of the best recordings from 72 (of course after Santa Monica).

Setlist:

01 Spoken Intro
02 Ode To Joy
03 Hang On To Yourself
04 Ziggy Stardust
05 Life On Mars
06 The Supermen
07 Starman
08 Changes
09 Five Years
10 Space Oddity
11 Andy Warhol
12 Amsterdam
13 I Feel Free
14 Moonage Daydream
15 White Light White Heat
16 Waiting For The Man
17 Sweet Jane
18 Suffragette City

The Band:

David Bowie vocals, guitar, harmonica
Mick Ronson guitar, vocals
Trevor Bolder bass
Mick "Woody" Woodmansey drums
Robin Lumley piano

Total time: 1:17:06

This tape was donated to BowieStation by a private collector.
A lot of thanks to him for offering his tapes.

The following editions are available:

BOWSTAT007-16RM - 16-bit matrix (CD-version)
BOWSTAT007-24RAW - 24-bit raw (24-96)

BowieStation production 2015.

Matrix by Learm.
Artwork by MossGarden.

All versions above are available at http://www.bowiestation.com/ along with about 1000 Bowie torrents.

Uploaded to BowieStation by Learm on September 9th 2015
Uploaded to Dime by Jan Erik on January 24th 2016


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