Frank Zappa and the Hot Rats
Olympic Auditorium
Los Angeles, California USA
March 7, 1970

The premiere concert of the Hot Rats group

A nice sounding mono audience recording from my first generation TMoQ tape collection

caveat: Reduced bandwidth of 16 KHz from a DAT tape recorded at the LP speed


01. Introduction
02. Sharlena
03. Twinkle Tits (splice-tape flip 21:06 or 7:19 of track 3)
04. Interlude
05. Directly From My Heart To You
06. The Clap >
07. Drums > (splice-tape flip 44:30)
08. Chunga's Revenge
encore:
09. Intro to Willie the pimp and tune up
10. Willie The Pimp (instrumental)
[ 69:05 ]

Band:
Frank Zappa - Electric Guitar, Vocals
Max Bennett - Electric Bass
Don "Sugarcane" Harris - Electric Violin, Vocals
Ian Underwood - Keyboards, Alto Saxophone
Aynsley Dunbar - Drums

Lineage:
Master: 1 Sennheiser 805 shotgun microphone > Uher 4000 1/2 track R2R Recorder @ 7 1/2 ips on 5" 3M Scotch tapes (mono)

My Copy: 1/2 track 5" Masters > Teac An-180 > Revox B-77

Safety Copy: Revox B-77 > Teac An-60 > Phase Linear 1000 Autocorrelator > Sony DTC-690 @ LP

Transfer: Sony DTC-690 > Audigy 4 Pro (via Toslink) > Audacity > CD Wav > Flac (Level 8) > Stamp ID3 tag editor


Another gem from the TMoQ vaults.

Audacity was used to clean up some of the dropouts, flatspots and other unwanted noises.

Individual claps were removed or attenuated between songs to make this even more enjoyable.
Some distorted crackling can be heard in places.
The masters tended to be recorded very hot.

For the curious...
The "auto-correlator" is a multi-band, single-ended noise filter and dynamic range recovery system.
It incorporates noise reduction in four frequency bands.
One in the bass intended to suppress turntable rumble and three in the treble intended to suppress tape hiss and the like.
The noise filters are controlled by signals derived from bandpass filters.

Like a constantly changing equalizer to reduce tape noise and expand the dynamic range.
I used this equipment sometimes when copying tapes to my DAT.
Phase Linear electronics were top quality for the day.
Always used a light setting and this wasn't intended to eliminate hiss just knock it down a little bit.


For historical reference and not intended for resale or any commercial use
-M- (Jan 2011) (rev A: Oct 2013 - Tagged the files, mild eq, updated the artwork and the text file, new fingerprint and checksum created)
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