An interesting bootleg which could potentially get an official release with the upcoming Animals 5.1 release... We can all wish. Anyways, now in the best quality on YouTube, here is some more Animals content you have all been begging me for, enjoy!

I hope you all enjoy this bootleg, and if you have any requests (years, eras, specific dates, etc.) let me know and I will try to upload it!

Thanks to all those involved! Stay tuned ;)

O.

Tracklist:

00:00 - Pigs On The Wing (Part 1 & 2)
03:23 - Dogs
16:56 - Pigs
28:31 - Sheep

Pigs On The Wing (Part 1 & 2) is from the 8 track, which is techincally an official release but can still be found online if you don't have the player for it ;)

As for the rest of the tracks, they are from a cassette bootleg, transferred by Neonknight and remastered by the amazing Jimfisheye. Here are the notes below:

Pink Floyd 1976 Animals Studio Rough Mix Tape [24-96]

Neonknight was briefly loaned the two cassettes used for this release in 2012.
2016 mastering: Jimfisheye.
2012 tape transfer & executive producer: Neonknight.

The labeling as "demo" on one tape aside, these recordings have the sound of studio rough mix tapes. Made from a cassette deck patched into the mixing board used for quick rough mixes during studio sessions. Mixes made well enough to listen to and critique the work are captured on the fly during playback after tracking and overdubbing. Different parts can be in various states of unfinished. There isn't time to go back and run rough mixes with more care or get tight timing between songs (like a finished album) on a nightly basis. Also with preserving the multitrack tape in mind, the cassette was allowed to just run because the multitrack wasn't going to be restarted for it for a missed entrance. That's why there is dead air with bits of click track and switch click sounds between songs.

The tapes offer a behind the scenes look as the albums were being recorded and should be listened to with an awareness that the mixes are not finished or even meant for presentation. Some of what became background parts are right up front in the mix. Some rough, obviously unfinished vocals. Studio chatter, etc.

Some of the early solos and a few other parts that were later replaced are still reminiscent of the early arrangements of these songs and give these versions a missing link quality. The Animals tracks show the songs evolving lyrically into the Animals theme. Dogs is further along whereas the lyrics to Sheep are more like Raving and Drooling.

The Animals tape is sourced from a cassette given to an associate of the band in August 1976.

Lineage:

'Animals Rough Mixes' - Sony UCX-S90 CrO2 position tape (1985) to Technics RS-B965-M to Focusrite Saffire Pro 14 to Audacity 1.3 to FLAC (24bit/96kHz) to Reaper 4.78 to FLAC (24bit/96kHz)

Mastering with Reaper DAW with iZotopeRX, Universal Audio, and Waves plugins. Elastique Pro pitch/time expansion/compression is integrated into Reaper.

Mastering Notes:

The aim was to restore the music to its original state, flaws and all, as opposed to attempting to aim for the final studio fidelity. Then at least stop the noise from stealing the spotlight during the quiet parts. Every attempt was made to do no further damage to the recordings while making them more presentable. The dead air between songs was omitted as it offered no content or perspective.

These recordings suffer from distortion and noise. The tape hiss is louder than the music during the quiet intro/outro parts. There is noticeable classic cassette compression and high end attenuation. The Animals set has more severe high end loss.

Both recordings were slightly out of phase in channel relationship from a minor azimuth error in one or more of the generations. This was offset to correct.

The recordings were resistant to very much tweaking without doing damage. The noise was reduced to at least be behind the music in the quiet parts and the clicks were removed (both using isotope RX plugins). The high end attenuation was restored as well as possible with linear phase and parallel additive techniques to minimize any eq distortion. Gentle expansion was used on the low and high bands to offset the tape compression as much as possible using a UA multiband compressor.

Jimfisheye, October 2016

If you would like this bootleg in FLAC, you can download it here: [ Ссылка ]

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