Pink Floyd - Live at Pompeii (Dolby Headphone) [FLAC]

Pink Floyd - Live at Pompeii (Dolby Headphone) [FLAC]



I'm a big surround music fan and created these albums so I can listen them in surround through headphones on a portable player. I like to share them with you and hope that you'll enjoy them too! If you like this release and have a minute to spare, all feedback and support is very appreciated. You can find my releases at https://kat.cr/usearch/user:ADHDerby/

Dolby Headphone, sometimes referred to as Mobile Surround, is a technology which allows you to listen to music, watch movies, or play video games with surround effects using any set of two channel stereo headphones. The sources of this release are surround versions of the tracks ripped from the DVD-A.

Genre: Rock
Style: Prog Rock
Year of Release: 2012
Original Release: Sept, 1972
Label: Jimfisheye (Fan Release)
Source: DVD-A 96/24 4.0 MLP
Resampler: Adobe Audition
Sample rate: 44100 Hz
Bits per sample: 16
Codec: FLAC

Conceived by the French director Adrian Maben as "an anti-Woodstock film," Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii was shot in October 1971 in a vacant, 2,000-year-old amphitheater, a venue chosen to accentuate the grandeur and spaciousness of the band's Meddle-era music. There's no spectators but the music impresses, is at its full swing. Moreover, you are under the impression that the members of the band surpass themselves musically and they give the best they can. Adrian Maben succeeds skilfully the marriage between the sound and the picture and it creates an entrancing climate. In short: "Pink Floyd: live at Pompei" will delight any Pink Floyd fan.

In 1974, associate producer Phil Borack (whose company April Fools Films handled distribution of the film in the United States) and director Adrian Maben visited Los Angeles for the purpose of finding someone to produce a quadraphonic mix for the film from the original multi-tracks. Dan Wallin, who received an Oscar nomination four years earlier for his work on Woodstock, was appointed for this task. The mix was done in discrete quad, the multi-tracks were mixed to mag at A&M record studios, then the mags were taken over to Todd-AO where the final mix was done. The quad mix was featured in select screenings of the film, but has never seen the light of day since then. Pink Floyd was never involved with the quad mix, and it’s possible that they’re completely unaware of its existence.

In 2011, a fan of the film, seeing that there was no proper presentation of the 1974 version on DVD, decided to assemble an amateur restoration from past releases of the film. And a year later, with the help of the online fan community, the legendary quadraphonic mix was acquired from a genuine 35mm print of the film (a relic which hasn't seen the light of day since the film's theatrical run in the mid 1970s). As a result, this project was later updated and posted on the internet.

The audio was taken from a 35mm Cinemascope 4-track magnetic striped print of Live at Pompeii featuring the quadraphonic mix (L, R, Ls, Rs; "4 corners"). This format used the same 4 channel magnetic audio tracks but not in the intended standard L, C, R, S configuration. This "4 corners" quad format was briefly used in the early/mid 1970's for more music focused films. The only theaters equipped for the non-standard audio format were in New York and Los Angeles.

Torrent hash: 1C5DEE9F4A6754A8DCE0EEC20CCC921CD707FCD0

Tracklist:

01. Intro (3:37)
02. Echoes (Part One) (11:56)
03. Careful With That Axe, Eugene (6:42)
04. A Saucerful of Secrets (10:10)
05. One of These Days (5:56)
06. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (10:23)
07. Mademoiselle Nobs (1:51)
08. Echoes (Part Two) (13:30)


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ADHDerby