PR Forum

De Oude Ahoy Hallen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
February 18, 1977

Disc 1:
1. Sheep
2. Pigs On A Wing 1
3. Dogs
4. Pigs On A Wing 2
5. Pigs (3 different ones)

Disc 2:
1. Shine On, You Crazy Diamond 1-5
2. Welcome To The Machine
3. Have A Cigar
4. Wish You Were Here
5. Shine On, You Crazy Diamond 6
6. Shine On, You Crazy Diamond 7-9 - patched from different recording of the same night
7. Money

This recording sounds much clearer and less noisy than "Bleating And Babbling", although this taper obviously was more distant to the stage than rec1. But this recording had more anomalies, like volume fluctuations and crackle.

Here is what I've done to the sources:
REC2-
∞ channels rebalanced;
∞ Equalisation permitted to make the vocals and guitar a little bit clearer and to reduce considerably the hiss;
∞ The most obvious short volume fluctuations have been mastered, longer parts of lower and higer volume (especially during 'Dogs') have been left as they were in order to not denaturate the tape recording;
∞ some pops, noises, clipping and anomalies were removed.
Alas, tape warbles and some analog crackle is impossible to remove without leaving a scar. Especially the tape anomalies at the end of rec2 were difficult to attenuate, but I wanted to leave as much possible of this source, until the tape completely lost it. The only thing you miss is constant warble for 2 more minutes until the source cuts.

Patch from REC1-
∞ Speedcorrected (96.5%);
∞ Channels rebalanced;
∞ Equalisation made vocals clearer, drum less 'boosted' and the overall less noisy and dull and reduced a lot of hiss;
∞ Volume has been tweaked to fit with the volume of the main source.