Reconstructionism

[thebarguest]

"Reconstructionism" as opposed to "revisionism" (which says that
prog was murdered by punk in 77), ha ha !!

I did a personal "remaster" job on the 75-11-19 show. The orig has
multi-second dropouts at 4:18, 4:22 (Neil Young). I thought I would
"splice" in a good copy of the song but the closest match I could get
was several seconds different from Peely's, oh shit as Buzzcocks 
said !
So, I simply did a clean cut of 5 secs with fade-in/out, never been a 
Young fan. A keen fan would notice a lyric line missing but others 
would think it OK. There was a short burst of FM interference at 
14:07 that I cut out (using Audacity). From 4:10 to 4:16 there was a 
drop of volume and distortion on the left channel - I copied the 
other channel across.

It's good fun but it is time-consuming and I do feel a bit bad about
buthcering the Young song. Looking forward to hearing your job
on the dec 75 show, Bill !



--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "billfromnorthwales" 
<billfromnorthwales@...> wrote:
>
> Have you ever tried to reconstruct a Peel show?
> 
> The reason I ask, is that on a few of the last shows I ripped from 
> the ebay 400 box, Bryan (the originator) did some heavy pause 
button 
> action while recording. Now unlike me when I used to do that, he 
cut 
> out the middle of the music and kept most of the Peel links intact.
> 
> This is great because now we can patch in the music that is missing 
> to recover the whole show.
> 
> Well that is a really difficult challenge!
> 
> First you have to get session that was on - usually OK
> Then there is that b side of that single - getting tricky now
> Then there is that German racket whose title was too difficult to 
> pronounce - Losing a bit of enthusiasm for this now
> Then there is the Jamaican white label whith no details of artist 
or 
> title - OK I give in.
> 
> Well one day I will reconstruct the entire shows with hi quality 
> sources for the music seemlessly integrated with the original 
> links........just may take a bit of time!
> 
> I should add.....you do all know this is what I did for the 
remaster 
> of the 1977-12-27 show? (1977 Festive Fifty)
> 
> Bill
>