ANNOUNCE - Golders Green Hippodrome Vocal Restoration

Thanks for this, I just hope someone is seeding. uTorrent says there is one seed but isn't connecting to it.

I'm dying to here how much improved the voal is, I love this show but the low level of Freddie's vocals spoils it.

It's not that much of an improvement to my ears - still sounds like Freddie is singing in a toilet cubicle about 3 miles down the road..........great to have though and the BAND sounds great; Brian's sound is absolutely killer!

I agree that this is not much of an improvement. I think part of the reason is this show is NOT quadraphonic. It has made it onto an online list of quad recordings and that says it is SQ encoded. But there are many errors on that list and I think this is one of them.

Below is a link to an auction for a copy of the BBC transcription disc that Pop Spectacular was taken from, that is the best quality although incomplete version of this. Note it does not say SQ or QS or any other matrix type on the label. I'm on a quadraphonic music blog and I am told by the person that runs it that if the transcription disc doesn't say SQ or whatever then it isn't encoded. Also he downloaded the pure Pop Spectacular transfer from Queenzone and did a proper SQ decode of it and he says the phase issues that result in the decode means it isn't SQ.

http://www.popsike.com/BBC-TRANSCRIPTION-LP-QUEEN-RANDY-NEWMAN/250303111157.html

By the way, SQ decoding a remaster is not a good idea. Any kind of EQ can destroy the phase encoding unless special zero phase EQ is used. That's why my quad blog contact decoded the direct Pop Spectacular transfer and not any of the multiple source remasters.

Anyway, I hope I've been able to add some genuine information to this debate. There is clearly something wrong with Freddie's voice on this recording, and I agree with others than Brian's guitar sounds awesome on it, but we may never know what is wrong with this.

Thanks

Only just realised I had never downloaded this one, thankfully somebody is still seeding, thankyou for the upload and to whoever is still keeping this one alive.

Thank you for seeding! <3

Would anyone be willing to reupload please?

From bokkepoot's excel file:

https://mega.nz/#!Id10DAqR!NTPLdhEmfbiFDSBagaCpe3sSFKV9VcW14T4S56prN4k

tcc, why do you insist on keeping alive this thread ?
Try to accept there is no vocal restoration and the so called decoding has failed. Wrong matrix or, more likely, not quadraphonic at all.

Because someone asked for a reupload?
Even if it's not an improvement, should the thread die if people still want the file?

Related thread:
http://queenzone.com/forums/1459160/golders-green-hippodrome-quad-recording.aspx