mwhealton
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Which forum should I use to find if a particular recording is available in a multichannel format? In question here is a BBC broadcast in quad that may or may not have ever been transferred to tape or disk or file.
Maybe this oneWhich forum should I use to find if a particular recording is available in a multichannel format? In question here is a BBC broadcast in quad that may or may not have ever been transferred to tape or disk or file.
Thank you Pupster. That thread helps, but has a general scope by and large. So I'll proceed here for a bit.
The question is motivated because someone replied to me in a FaceBook thread that he had recorded off air a BBC concert of Shakti in quad.
I found a site that lists the BBC broadcasts with the formats, along other non-BBC broadcasts and some tape releases:
http://www.surrounddiscography.com/quaddisc/quadradi.htm
That site lists a Shakti concert, in BBC Matrix HJ encoding. Presumably it is the same concert the FaceBook person recorded in Quad on tape.
The McLaughlin gigs page (http://users.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave.Marshall/mclaughlin/tours/zmahgig.txt) shows a BBC concert in 1977 (with no mention of quad broadcast) :
- SHAKTI with JOHN McLAUGHLIN -
BBC In Concert 153. CN 2861/S (HJ)
BBC In Concert 28/5/77 (b'cast)60m FM (rec. 12/5/77)
More answers perhaps tomorrow..
I'd love to find a multichannel digital version in a recent file or disk format!
@fizzywiggs41 may know about it...Thank you Pupster. That thread helps, but has a general scope by and large. So I'll proceed here for a bit.
The question is motivated because someone replied to me in a FaceBook thread that he had recorded off air a BBC concert of Shakti in quad.
I found a site that lists the BBC broadcasts with the formats, along other non-BBC broadcasts and some tape releases:
http://www.surrounddiscography.com/quaddisc/quadradi.htm
That site lists a Shakti concert, in BBC Matrix HJ encoding. Presumably it is the same concert the FaceBook person recorded in Quad on tape.
The McLaughlin gigs page (http://users.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave.Marshall/mclaughlin/tours/zmahgig.txt) shows a BBC concert in 1977 (with no mention of quad broadcast) :
- SHAKTI with JOHN McLAUGHLIN -
BBC In Concert 153. CN 2861/S (HJ)
BBC In Concert 28/5/77 (b'cast)60m FM (rec. 12/5/77)
More answers perhaps tomorrow..
I'd love to find a multichannel digital version in a recent file or disk format!
Here is what I think is the key comment made so far on the FB thread:
"I set up a quad system at uni for the first BBC matrix h quad broadcast...Shakti...I still have the tape. I have lots of these early quad albums (including Mike Oldfield's Boxed). Really enjoying the surround sound remixes on Amazon music..can't wait for Caravanserai!".
That would be awesome if they would share an upload of the supposed quad tape, some of the other quad BBC transcriptions are available on YT.A quick reply and update:
I gave the person who recorded the Shakti Concert a link to QQ yesterday.
I'll try to get them / him to join and follow this thread today. It will be great if that works out!
Here is what I think is the key comment made so far on the FB thread:
"I set up a quad system at uni for the first BBC matrix h quad broadcast...Shakti...I still have the tape. I have lots of these early quad albums (including Mike Oldfield's Boxed). Really enjoying the surround sound remixes on Amazon music..can't wait for Caravanserai!".
So it is possible the tape is encoded in quad in some format or other.
what's he referring to there?
That was on during my first year Uni exams, but I didn't have a stereo tuner then anyway, if I'd known I'd have asked my Dad to record it then. Damn!I've no idea who Shakti or John McLaughlin are but out of interest and to end any unnecessary speculation, I did a simple search, as anyone could, of the BBC Genome (the definitive reference source for all BBC broadcasts) for that date and it plainly shows that the Radio One early evening schedule included the following:
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Here is a YT video of CN 2861/S
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