Hawkwind

Cambridge Corn Exchange 20th April 1988.

unknown mics (probably Sennheiser 421s)>WM-D6>
cass master>Pioneer CT-S550S playback>
Yamaha SW1000XG>.wav>CEP>MKW 0.97 beta 1>
.shn with seek tables appended.

Final tracking:

CD#1: (41:58)

 1. Intro >                      (1:30)
 2. Arrival In Utopia            (6:21)
 3. Needle Gun                   (4:13)
 4. Sword Of The East >          (6:07)
 5. Lost Chronicles >            (5:13)
 6. War I Survived               (4:05)
 7. Levitation >                 (6:18)
 8. Paranoia >                   (0:48)
 9. Levitation                   (0:51)
10. Heads                        (6:32)


CD#2: (58:50)

 1. Shot Down In The Night       (7:04)
 2. Mutation Zone >              (1:25)
 3. Tides >                      (2:14)
 4. Wasteland Of Sleep >         (4:53)
 5. Moonglum                     (4:45)
 6. Sonic Attack                 (7:55)
 7. Rocky Paths                  (4:39)
 8. Master Of The Universe       (5:42)
 - encore -
 9. Audience Applause            (1:57)
10. Dave Brock Festivals rap     (1:28)
11. The Right Stuff >            (4:02)
12. Free Fall >                  (2:50)
13. Brainstorm                   (9:57)


Huw Lloyd-Langton : Guitar, Vocals
Danny Thompson : Drums
Alan Davey : Bass Guitar, Vocals
Dave Brock : Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals
Harvey Bainbridge : Keyboards, Vocals

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I was using Sennheiser 421 mics (which are quite large)
or a small Tandy mic (for more stealthy situations) at
this time. The sound of this recording is better than
I would normally expect from the Tandy, but significantly
lacking in the bass I would expect from the Sennheisers
(unless I was using the bass filter). The crackly sound
that occurs at the very start, for a few seconds, sounds
like the windshields on the Tandy mic. A thump on the
left hand channel ONLY right at the very end of War I
Survived (at 4:03) is a microphone handling sound typical
of knocking one of the Sennheisers. The Tandy is a single
stereo mic and handling noises would usually affect both
channels. All things considered, and the comparative lack
of room ambience, I believe this was recorded with the
Sennheisers quite close to the stage, possibly with bass
roll-off (this is an adjustment that is possible on each
of the 421s). The handling noise at the very start - the
one that sounds like the Tandy windshield - is probably
the material that I used to cover & conceal the (large)
Sennheisers.


Editing in CEP:

1. FFT filter applied over each section individually, to
improve tonal balance. FFT points: 0db at 0Hz, +6db at
33Hz, +5.4db at 105Hz, +0db at 200Hz - to improve low-end
bass sounds.

2. Fixes:

3. Normalisation and correction of DC offset.
Section 1: samples multiplied by 2.5 (approx 6db).
Slight fade-in applied at start. Section 2: samples
multiplied by 2.5 (approx 6db). Section 3: same as
section 2.

4. Tracking: CD#1 corresponds to original cassette side #1.
CD#2 has a join where there was originally a tape flip
between Rocky Paths and Master Of The Universe. The
sections were simply joined together and a there is a minor
discontinuity (between d2t08 and d2t09). CDWAV to split
each section to CD-sized boundaries.


alimac@netcomuk.co.uk 9th Sept 2001.
(reformatted 24th march 2002)