Hawkwind

London Hammersmith Odeon 22nd April 1988.

This was taped by BBC Radio 1 and a 60 minute excerpt was broadcast a few weeks later.

The full show was:

   1. Intro
*  2. Arrival In Utopia
   3. Needle Gun
   4. Sword Of The East
   5. Lost Chronicles
*  6. War I Survived
   7. Levitation
*  8. Heads
*  9. Shot Down In The Night
* 10. Mutation Zone
* 11. Tides
* 12. Wasteland Of Sleep
* 13. Moonglum
* 14. Sonic Attack
* 15. Rocky Paths
  16. Master Of The Universe
  17. The Right Stuff
  18. Free Fall
* 19. Brainstorm

(with the BBC broadcast tracks marked "*").


I had lots of version of this recording to play with. The ones I ended up using were:

2 versions are archived (well, all of #2 and part of #1 on the "raw" archive discs, and just the finalised 60 min dis on the "finalised" .shn disc).

Version 1:
SB>??>FM>unknown>.shn

Version #1 came from Bryan Young and has a flip between Moonglum and Sonic Attack.


Version 2:
SB>??>FM>??>TDK SA-X90 cassette master with dolby B>Pioneer CT-S550S>Yamaha SW1000XG>.wav

Version 2 is my master cassette. The tape flip occurs during the first few seconds of Rocky Paths.


A patch is therefore possible to repair either version from the other.


Additional versions that were checked included an alternative (mono) master, the Hawk Log bootleg, and a couple of unknown gen discs - of which "version 2" above was by far the best. It has a sound that is wide and clean - if slightly bass-lite. The treble on version #2 is arguably a little weak, but all things considered I figured it was better to patch the flip in version #2 with a few seconds from version #1.


(CEP) Processing for patching version 2 flip from version 1:

1. Applied FFT filter to give version 2 better tone (ie bass boost). (+0db @ 22Hz, +8.1db @ 74Hz, +7.8db @ 130Hz, +5.4db @ 171Hz, +0db @ 259Hz, +0db @ 4992Hz, +3db @ 22050Hz)
2. Deleted final comments by Johnny Walker from end of version 2 segment 2.
3. Identified matching sections for patch.
4. Applied FFT filter to give version #1 closer tone to version #2. (+0db @ 22Hz, +10.8db @ 74Hz, +10.4db @ 130Hz, +7.2db @ 171Hz, +0db @ 259Hz, +0db @ 4992Hz, -4db @ 22050Hz)
5. Used CEP multitrack facility to line up and mix down new complete version. The patch is cross-faded in and out over approximately 1/5th second. The patch therefore sounds smoother than it otherwise would.
6. Mixdown track saved and cut to CD-length tracks in CDWAV. .shn'ed with MKW 0.97 beta 1.


Final Tracking:

1. Intro			1:15
2. Arrival In Utopia	6:22
3. War I Survived		3:51
4. Heads			6:04
5. Shot Down In The Night	6:31
6. Mutation Zone		2:09
7. Tides			2:14
8. Wasteland Of Sleep	4:10
9. Moonglum			4:35
10. Sonic Attack		5:30
11. Rocky Paths		4:47
12. Dave Brock Festivals Rap	0:55
13. Brainstorm		8:17

Total Time: 56:40

alimac@netcomuk.co.uk 19th October 2001.