Pink Floyd 1972-04-24 Cleveland, OH, Allen Theater

Pink Floyd
Allen Theater, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
24 April 1972

01 - Speak To Me
02 - Breathe
03 - The Travel Sequence
04 - Time - Breathe (reprise)
05 - The Mortality Sequence
06 - Money
07 - Us And Them
08 - Any Colour You Like
09 - Brain Damage - Eclipse
10 - intermission audience
11 - One Of These Days
12 - Careful With That Axe, Eugene
13 - Echoes
14 - Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun

Total running time: 2 hours 6 minutes 31 seconds

** Introduction in English and German **

There are those moments that a Pink Floyd fan waits for his entire life. They’re the moments that have you scouring the internet every day, reading forums, and browsing eBay for cassettes in search of a better version of a recording, a new recording, and in some cases even a completely new show. These moments are rare and are becoming even rarer, but sometimes we get lucky and our patience is rewarded.

This is one of those moments.

A long-time member of the Y! and R&D community has decided, after almost exactly 50 years, to release a tape he unearthed many years ago.

You can read the incredible story behind this tape from the forum member, a tale full of coincidences, good intuition, good timing, and trust.

We are grateful and happy that we were able to follow the process of editing and releasing this tape as part of a very small group, and we thank the owner of the recording for the trust he has placed in us.

We are delighted to see how the community is receiving this release. For us, it was always clear that JFE should edit the tape, as he has been one of the best in this field for years, if not THE best. A thousand thanks also to him for his dedicated work.

An “international production” that began in Germany and would not have been possible without the passion of some Floyd fans worldwide.

Neonknight, Nipote & Skinny12

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Es gibt diese Momente, auf die ein Pink Floyd Fan sein Leben lang wartet. Es sind diese Momente, für die man täglich das Internet untersucht, in Foren liest und eBay nach Kassetten durchstöbert auf der Suche nach einer besseren Version einer Aufnahme, einem neuen Rekorder und in Einzelfällen sogar einer komplett neuen Show. Diese Momente sind selten und werden immer seltener aber manchmal haben wir Glück und unsere Geduld wird belohnt

Dies ist ein solcher Moment.

Ein langjähriges Mitglied der Y! und R&D Community hat sich entschieden, nach fast exakt 50 Jahren ein Tape zu veröffentlichen, dass er vor vielen Jahren ausgegraben hat.

Die irre Geschichte hinter diesem Tape könnt ihr vom Forumsmitglied lesen, die voller Zufälle, einer guten Intuition, gutem Timing und Vertrauen ist.

Wir sind dankbar und froh, dass wir den Prozess der Bearbeitung und Veröffentlichung dieses Tapes als Teil einer sehr kleinen Gruppe mitverfolgen durften und danken dem Besitzer der Aufnahme für das entgegengebrachte Vertrauen.

Wir sind erfreut zu erleben, wie die Community diese Veröffentlichung aufnimmt. Für uns stand immer fest, dass JFE das Tape bearbeiten sollte, ist er doch seit Jahren einer der Besten in diesem Metier, wenn nicht DER Beste. Tausend Dank auch an ihn für die hingebungsvolle Arbeit.

Eine „internationale Produktion“ die Ihre Anfänge in Deutschland nahm und ohne die Leidenschaft einiger Floyd Fans weltweit so nicht möglich gewesen wäre.

Neonknight, Nipote & Skinny12

** Jimfisheye's mastering notes **

This is a mono recording with unknown lineage. The CDR source has a lot of attention to detail from analog source handling to proper digital levels and editing. There's a broadcast aesthetic that includes turning up the quieter parts and pulling some of the more blown out louder parts back. Audience sections are trimmed and this has a produced flair to it. At the same time the sound still has a shrill hi midrange especially in the louder parts. A hallmark of distorted recordings of loud events. I can only speculate if any shrillness was exaggerated by earlier eq decisions. The recording of set 1 up to the cut in Brain Damage is lower fidelity than the rest of the recording and has a brightness around 5k that is not present in set 2 which sounds like it might be an eq boost addressing the lower fidelity element. While other resonances, whistles, and hums are consistent in both sets.

The problem with turning the quiet parts up is the effect of the big dropout when the music is supposed to be kicking back in strong. If the loud parts are nothing but shrill distorted sound, then something has to be done of course, but this recording is surprisingly dynamic and intact even in the louder parts. This sounds like it's recorded close to the stage. The front (stage) quad speaker audio is loud and close in the recording. There are some moments where you hear Rick's keyboard soloing get suddenly louder (coming out the front, on stage quad speaker) and then get distant sounding with room echo as he pans himself around the room. Someone in the audience mentions the quadraphonic sound.

I mastered this for the most natural sound possible from the recording. No damaging moves for surface level hype. Normalized the volume lurches and pronounced high mids. Reduced the excessive rumble and brought the bass end back into balance. I use Reaper DAW, iZotopeRX spectral editor, and some Waves and UA plugins. I created the tape flip patch in Brain Damage using Roger's vocal from the previous night (Apr 23rd).

April 2026 Jimfisheye

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