HAWKWIND Glastonbury Festival 20th June 1981 LINEAGE: SBD > ? > Cassette > SBLive1024 > CoolEdit > CDWave > SHN TRACK LIST: 1 Master Of The Universe (3:31) 2 Motorway City (7:27) 3 // Shot Down In The Night (10:36) 4 Virgin Of The World (4:27) 5 Angels Of // Death (6:59) 6 Magnu (5:47) 7 Dust Of Time (3:47) 8 unknown instrumental (1:27) 9 PSI Power (5:27) 10 Sonic Attack (3:44) 11 Who's Gonna Win The War? (5:32) -- Brainstorm (not on tape) BAND LINEUP: Dave Brock: vocals, guitar, synthesizer and keyboards Huw Lloyd-Langton: lead guitar and vocals Harvey Bainbridge: bass guitar, vocals, synthesizer and keyboards Martin Griffin: drums MASTERING NOTES: The people manning the sound desk at the 1981 Glastonbury Festival recorded many (all?) of the acts that appeared. A stall was set up at the side of the sound desk where people were able to purchase or order cassettes of the performances with all proceeds going to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. This CD has been mastered from one of these tapes which was purchased for me by a friend who was at the festival. The tape was played back on a Yamaha KX-580 cassette recorder directly to the analogue input of a Soundblaster Live-1024 sound card and recorded to HD using Cool Edit. The cassette was Dolby B encoded but NO Dolby was used during playback as it produced very poor treble response. It was probably only the third or fourth time the tape had been played. The recording levels were different on each side of the tape in addition to the first 25.7 seconds of side one having a slightly higher recording level to the rest of the side. I reduced the amplitude for the first 25.7 seconds of side one to 85%, fading back up to 100% over the next 0.8 seconds. Each side of the tape was then separately normalised to 99.5% - side one amplified by 151% and side 2 by 141%. There is an edit at the beginning of Shot Down In The Night on the original tape (I seem to remember my friend mentioning some technical problems at the festival) resulting in a very abrupt start and a 0.08 second drop-out 0.18 seconds into the track. I have masked this as best I can by: i) removing a 0.2 second glitch caused by the edit just before the music kicks in, ii) softening the start of the track by adding a slight fade in, and iii) boosting the level of the drop-out by fading up and down the amplitude. Angels Of Death is split over both sides of the cassette, fading out on side one from 3:38 and fading in again on side two with an unknown amount missing. I tried cross-fading the two segments together at several different points but never go a satisfactory result. In the end I simply cut the two segments together on an appropriate drum beat at 3:36.176 into the track resulting in a total loss of 5.42 seconds. Finally I added 0.5 second fades to the beginning and end of the wave file which was then split into tracks using CDWave and converted to SHN with MKWAct 0.96. The final track - Brainstorm - is not on the tape. Cover art is also available. ENJOY!! Ian McKay imckay@hotmail.com 24th March 2002 PS: If anyone can help with the name of the unknown track or a recording of the missing portions of the show, please get in touch.