(007698) Deep Purple 1970-11-28 Heidelberg, Aula de neuen Universität (24-bit) (FLAC)

Deep Purple

Heidelberg, Aula der neuen Universität 28.11.1970

As always, some background information first:

Last Autumn I visited my old friend HB in Mannheim who had recorded close to 200 concerts in the Mannheim/Frankfurt area from 1970 until about 1975. He used a portable RtR mono tape recorder with a single external mono microphone but copied his masters onto 18cm reels when back at home after the shows, as tapes were expensive at the time and archiving this way was cheaper than keeping the master tape of every show. Speaking to several tapers of the time, this must have been fairly common practise. Compact Cassettes weren't available at this time. In later years he copied some of his back-up masters onto cassette tapes as the quality of these had improved dramatically by the mid seventies and they were easier to handle. Later on copies of the reels were also made with a DAT recorder, but I'm not sure on the whereabouts of these. Fortunately HB was wise enough to keep his RtR back-up tapes for all these years.

The shows he recorded back then covered nearly all genres from Rock to Jazz, including Led Zeppelin, ELP, Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd and even Ike and Tina Turner, Ray Charles, Blood, Sweat and Tears and many many more.

So when I arrived at his appartment in Mannheim on a Saturday lunchtime he had a huge cardboard box of reels on the floor of his living room and he gave me the whole lot for a fresh digital transfer.

So here you have a fresh digital transfer of HB's third ever concert recording, done by myself with my revised Revox and my MixPre3 for very best results. This tape has been around for many years and has been digitised on at least two other occassions. I'm not claiming that this is the ultimate version, just a fresh transfers, reworked by myself.

HBs back-up master tape reel to reel, Tape #1, Side 1 and 2, Concert #3

Original Recording Equipment: mobile RtR recorder, most probably a Telefunken 300TS halftrack mono , maybe with the single external microphone TD33 with balance input control.

Source Master Tape: Unknown, probably 13cm BASF or Shamrock RtR (wiped when re-used later)

Original back-up Tape: 18cm BASF, AGFA or Shamrock RtR 1/4 Track mono

Playback Tape Deck: Revox A77 on 1/4 track mono, 9.5cm per minute

Digital Recorder: Sound Devices MixPre3

Manual azimuth alignment (with mono headphone output setting on the MixPre 3 - which in most cases enables pinpoint accuracy)

Audacity: edited, heavliy pitched, normalised and de-noised

iZotope RX9: Kirchhoff EQ plus Brainworx bx Stereomaker plug in

HBs first reel that has eight shows on it plays back way too slowly and here I had to add about 14% pitch to get it at the correct speed. Surprisingly he doesn't remember this, and therefore couldn't tell me how this happended.

NOTE: This show is in 24-bit format and may be burned to a DVD. It cannot be burned to a CD as is.

Tracks:

01 Intro/Tuning

02 Speed King

03 Into the Fire

04 Child in Time

05 Mandrake Root

06 Black Night

07 Lucille-

08 Good Golly, Miss Molly

Deep Purple in 1970 were (Mark II):

Ritchie Blackmore, Guitars

Jon Lord, Keyboards

Ian Paice, Drums

Roger Glover, Bass

Ian Gillan, Vocals

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