Leon Russell Flood Vol2: The 1970 Anaheim Convention Center Concert 1970-12-04 Mono and Stereo Versions

Why in the world would I want to post two different versions of the same concert, when in all probability they are also from the same master tape?

The answer in this case lies in the listening experience. The two versions sound so completely different as to make a strong enough case to keep both of them.

From the beginning of vinyl bootleg recordings, to the classic CD labels such as TSP or Red Phantom, the same show has appeared from the same master, with different acoustics. Perhaps due to differing tape biases, or a different playback deck being used, or for some other mastering reason, one version may sound not better than another, but different. Perhaps the voice is stronger, perhaps the instrumentation sounds as if one part is louder than another. I don't know the exact causes. I just know that they are equally as good.

That's the case here with this concert. You really do need both.

For making this torrent, the Leon Russell portion of a mint copy of the rare stereo Rubber Dubber Records "Elton John and Leon Russell - Live at the Anaheim Convention Center 12-04-70" was used. For lineage on both versions, see below. No notch filtering was applied to the Rubber Dubber version, as initial spectrum analysis came up clean. A mint copy of the Fargone Records "Live at Anaheim Calif" was used for the mono version. The Fargone records version is a mono recording, but was put into Sound Forge in a stereo, two track recording. It was reconverted to single-channel mono (L 50% + R 50%) after audio processing to further reduce noise. The resulting one-track was duplicated to make Left-Right so all you people out there can properly burn audio CDs out of it, and so no SBE's would occur(there aren't SBE's in true mono recordings, but there are in mono recordings where the second channel is generated, even if it's a duplicate of the first. FLAC Frontend doesn't allow sector alignment on true mono recordings anyway).

Lineage: LPs ->Sound Forge 6.0 ->Manual click and crackle sweep -> Normalization ->Default Vinyl auto click and crackle sweep ->Normalization -> Sony (Sonic Foundry) Vinyl Restoration ->4x Spectrum analysis leading to -> 60hz, 108hz, and 129hz notch filtering ->"Dead Space" sampling leading to -> Sony (Sonic Foundry) Noise Reduction 12db mode2 default setting ->track splitup with metadata stripped ->Flac Frontend level 6, sectors aligned and verified, replaygain used.

Enjoy!

A DoinkerTape