[peel] The Unofficial National Peel Archive

[Trudi & Neil]

John,

I would think mono recording at a lower sampling rate as it's only MW radio,
maybee 128kbps or even 64kbps, shopuldmake the files a lot smaller without
any quality loss.

NeilC
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Bravin" <john.bravin@...>
To: <peel@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 9:04 AM
Subject: [peel] The Unofficial National Peel Archive


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> Sitting here on a sunny Good Friday starting to rip my collection of
> tapes from various Peel shows, intending to add them to the growing
> unofficial Peel archive.  Current one is from 1977 as part of the Peel
> shows where all the music was chosen by listeners (with often their own
> notes read out by Peel).  This particular show was programmed by Dave
> McClennan of Glasgow (are you out there Dave?) and featured Marley, Thin
> Lizzy (described by Peel as sublime), Be-bop Deluxe, Faces, Dylan,
> Jefferson Airplane ( Somebody to Love, the original of which was
> recorded in LA with Peel in the studio!), Neil Young, Joni Mitchell,
> Pink Floyd (from Wish You Were Here, described by Peel as wonderful,
> maybe an eye-opener to the taste revisionists out there).
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> There are many more shows from different eras, most with the Peel links
> intact (as many are now finding, the music is replaceable, but the links
> are the special bit).
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> On a nerdy practical note, I am recording these using Total Recorder in
> MP3 (Blade) 160kbps, 32kHz Stereo format.  Are there any better
> suggestions, given that some of the shows are from late night wonderful
> Radio 1 247 AM and not always of great quality? Currently a C90 side
> saves as about 55MB.
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> First tape is now finished. I'm on to 1980 with Ry Cooder, Twinkle
> Brothers, Scritti Politi, Automatics (the fine Tanks Over Poland), Mikey
> Dread, Reginald Bosenquet, UK Subs, Stupid Babies (Babysitters - anyone
> remember that), Elvis Costello and Captain Sinbad and Sugar Minott,
> Barcelona Choir (Death of a Novice).
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> John
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