Here’s a short one for you today, but it is pretty damn awesome. Here is a 7 minute clip that Craig Babb filmed of Sleep opening for Hawkwind back in 1994. This one was super dark so I brightened and fixed up the exposure before denoising. It sounds pretty good as well! Thanks Craig!
Recorded by: Craig Babb
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV350 firewire into workstation
Enhance/denoise in Adobe Premiere elements and neat video
Here is the Hawkwind set- they were the headliner for the sleep show that I posted the other day. This looks like Nik Turner’s Hawkwind at a glance, but I do not know for sure.
Recorded by: Craig Babb
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV350
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
On This Date in History, finally! The mix on this one wasn’t great, and the mix changes throughout the show. I rebalanced it to sound good for the majority of the set, which is at the end of the show. The early part of the set is still listenable, but a little guitar heavy with no snare.
Cuts at the end. I am not sure if that was just my copy or if the source cuts at that point.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Bass +3, Drums +2, Guitar +6
When I started to prep this one, I realized I made a mistake while transferring it. Some of these old tapes are dirty, or the tape sheds and dirties up the heads while it plays. I needed to clean heads constantly to get some tapes to transfer. I thought I got a clean transfer of this one, but it craps out at about 17 minutes- sorry about that. The video wasn’t much longer than this anyway, and it looks like there is another version of this show (amazingly) up on the internet as well.
If you ever wanted to see what a slow descent into dirty-headedness looks like, fast forward to 16min.
Recorded by: Craig Babb
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV320
Degrain in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
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