The raw version of the song on the newly found tape
Hi,
Yesterday I was given the privilege by Michael to hear the recently found TMS version of the song before it was aired on the radio. It was great to finally hear the song in better quality and with the missing intro. Michael sent me three files: two pitch corrected versions (TMS pitch and original key) and an unmodified raw version. For anyone interested, I did an analysis of the raw version and below are a few of my findings:
- Just before the intro there is some faint audio of what I believe to be Ture's voice asking the band if they're ready, by saying "Ja?" through the microphone. You can hear the reverb on his voice as well.
- There's an average phase shift between the stereo channels of about 0.11ms, which could be from the tape deck that Michael used to digitize the tape. For comparison: Darius' recording has an average of 0.0ms phase shift.
- As has been pointed out by others, the fade out at the end is shorter than the TMS version. Michael shared with me that the band thinks the tape was recorded in Heikendorf on a Revox tape with all of them playing live (no multitrack): "The mixer being in the hallway trying to do a decent mix with all the band noise coming through the door that could not be closed completely due to the cables from microphones and instruments (or multicore) from the room to the mixer. He probably recorded until we stopped so that each copy from that master tape had an individual fade out."
To sum things up: there is no doubt in my mind that this is a legitimate copy of the master tape (not that I ever doubted it to begin with).
