Emerson Lake & Palmer
1971 March 24th
City Hall, Sheffield

Lineage : traded WAV files (unknown generation) -> Adobe Audition (speed and phase correction) -> flac (frontend level 8) -> torrent

Tracklist

01. intro - tuning
02. Barbarian
03. Tarkus
04. Knife Edge
05. Jeremy Bender
06. Take A Pebble
07. Pictures At An Exhibition
08. Rondo

Paul P. sent me this concert, that I compared to the Davros113 version, and found out that are two different tapers. This one is slightly longer and not ruined by heavy noise reduction. I spent hours adjusting speed and phase correction. Well the result is still a mediocre recording, no way to make it better. At least the pitch is correct and no phase interference between channels. Apart from being monoaural and quite distant from loudspeakers, the sound immensely suffers from being from a very narrow frequency band, just up to 3 kHz, which is a drama, affecting some songs more than others. The absence of great part of the medium range and all of upper range makes it boomy and dull, as if the mike was hidden in the pants... Maybe the original master was not so bad, and the disaster happened during some tape transfer, even if I doubt it. Anyway, as usual, if anybody has the chance to get a better version, please share it here, we are not getting any younger...
The concert is tight, as the previously shared Pluymouth one, ELP is at his best, it is a real pity that the announcements are too hard to understand, and the overall sound quality is not higher than 5/10.
Enjoy and share it
Pelino
July 2021

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