ANNOUNCE - Golders Green Hippodrome Vocal Restoration

I tried it. The best results are using "Pro Logic II Music". There is plenty of action from the rear speakers, far more than you normally get. And it clearly is quad encoded in some way since the announcer's voice only comes out of the front speakers.

However the PL II Music decode clearly isn't right, it's just sound from all over the place with no real cohesion to it. And it doesn't bring Freddie's vocals out, it still sounds like he's singing in the next room through a closed door.

Freddie's voice sounding like singing in the next door, well that's what we've got so far, that's a pity...

Yeah I know, Freddie's volume on this is a real shame because otherwise it's a great performance.

I downloaded the SQ quad decode of this from another thread and that wasn't much better. I can only play either the fronts or the rears from that (they're pairs of FLACs) but the rears have pretty much just Brian's guitar in them. But Freddie is as quiet as ever in the fronts. I did try inverting the rears and adding them into the fronts (playing the two FLACs together in Audacity) to see if it would cancel out some of the guitar but it didn't.

Oddly the person doing the restoration in this thread claims that their hand extraction of the rears had very little guitar, whereas the SQ decode from the other thread has mostly guitar and nothing else in the rears.

The problem with SQ was that in mono you lost stuff because it cancelled out, in particular the rears are completely out of phase with the centre front. If we've lost stereo seperation at any stage then this will have caused reduction of front centre, which may be what happened to Freddie's voice.

Sounds about right to me. Good job on the forensic work.

No doubt you're going to be a great addition to this place.

@OwenSmith: I probably just got mixed up between the front and rear tracks, your descriptions sound about right.

Just discovered my original thank you has been deleted so, thanks again to GinjaNinja for taking the time.

............and Pittrek for the original merge of course.

Any chance for an re-upload please?

[QUOTE] [b]MAYniac91 wrote:[/b]

Any chance for an re-upload please?[/QUOTE]

It can still be found here:

http://dxrfl5.1fichier.com/en/

[QUOTE] [b]The Kurgan wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]MAYniac91 wrote:[/b]

Any chance for an re-upload please?[/QUOTE]

It can still be found here:

http://dxrfl5.1fichier.com/en/

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Thanks so much for the link!

No problem, sometimes these sort of requests prompt me to listen again. No bad thing!

Excellent, thanks.

Hi,

Would anyone be able to make a torrent out of this Restoration?

Thanks!

Torrent of this as requested:

Many many thanks!