SOUND GRADING

 

 10 = Perfect Stereo

   9 = FM Radio Broadcast

   8 = Excellent Audience

   7 = Very Good Audience

   6 = Good Audience

   5 = Fair Audience

   4 = Poor Audience

   3 = Un-listenable

 

LOOP CATEGORY

  © = Mono Creation Loop

  ® = Stereo Replay Loop

Total Time : 41 mins

Notes

 

A good stereo audience recording with some flaws.

Pitch of the tape appears to be more or less in tune thus requiring no adjustment.

 

Remastered by boosting overall level, applying some specific EQ compression

and compensating for some manual recording level adjustments that occurred

during the transfer process or during the recording process.

 

There is virtually no dialogue with the audience, nor is there any applause

captured on this recording, which is rare.

 

1700 has some strange digital clicking noises which have likely

been inadvertently added to the disc during a cassette transfer or some

analogue to digital transfer process.

 

If anyone has an earlier or superior transfer, please contact us via email.

 

In various quieter sections of all 3 pieces, some strange noises which resemble

bad de-noising artifacts occur.  Upon close inspection however these appear to

have somehow infiltrated the Frippertronics loop itself at the event

as it ceases when the loop is stopped by Fripp.  Perhaps an anomaly

of this particular Revox setup in Amsterdam.

 

Camera shutters can be heard nearby the taper during 1700.

This may have been the sound of the photos taken by professional photographer Joep Bruinje

which have later surfaced on the album Let the Power Fall and various music publications.

Presumably permission was granted by Fripp.

These photos can be seen at DGM Live here

 

The original recording received prior to remastering had 5 tracks,

but upon close inspection Tracks 1 & 2 there was no actual break in the loop,

nor was there a break between Tracks 4 & 5.

These have been re-indexed together as 1700 and 1698 respectively.

Date : May 7, 1979

Venue : Theatre Populier

Location : Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Sound Grading : 7.5

TRACK LISTING

 

1700 (14:07) ©

1699 (9:27) ©

1698 (16:57) ©

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