Abbey Road (Black Triangle) CD
Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2021 1:23 am
Thought I'd create a new thread for this (and EQ-match each track, with pictorial content displayed herein):
Most people with the famous Black Triangle rip of Abbey Road have downloaded it from the 'net (and most of these people can't tell if their rip was properly de-emphasised or not).
I found a folder on one of my HDDs called Abbey Road (Toshiba): there's a "track" (an .m3u file, in fact) called 00 - The Beatles - Abbey Road (1969) [FLAC] {De-Emphasized Black Triangle}.m3u, so that gave me a better idea of what I had in the folder. I imported track 01 (Come Together) from this folder into Audacity.
I then opened a raw, unprocessed 24 bit 192kHz 'drop I'd recently done of my Pro Use LP, copied Come Together from that and appended it to the Black Triangle version: Audacity took its time and converted the 24 bit 192kHz file to a 16 bit 44.1kHz file. A new blank stereo track was opened underneath, the copy I'd appended was cut away and pasted into the blank track. The two tracks were lined up, a minor speed adjustment (-0.023%) was made to the file sourced from the LP. The LP file was volume matched to the Black Triangle version and then an EQ match was done (which shows that the following EQ curve would need to be used to make the Black Triangle CD version I have sound more like the LP version I'd 'dropped). The "upside down smiley face" EQ curve makes me think that the CD wasn't properly de-emphasised, alas.
01 - Come Together (Black Triangle CD version EQ-matched to Pro Use LP version by paul62).wav
hxxps://gofile.io/d/HKAkxd
Most people with the famous Black Triangle rip of Abbey Road have downloaded it from the 'net (and most of these people can't tell if their rip was properly de-emphasised or not).
I found a folder on one of my HDDs called Abbey Road (Toshiba): there's a "track" (an .m3u file, in fact) called 00 - The Beatles - Abbey Road (1969) [FLAC] {De-Emphasized Black Triangle}.m3u, so that gave me a better idea of what I had in the folder. I imported track 01 (Come Together) from this folder into Audacity.
I then opened a raw, unprocessed 24 bit 192kHz 'drop I'd recently done of my Pro Use LP, copied Come Together from that and appended it to the Black Triangle version: Audacity took its time and converted the 24 bit 192kHz file to a 16 bit 44.1kHz file. A new blank stereo track was opened underneath, the copy I'd appended was cut away and pasted into the blank track. The two tracks were lined up, a minor speed adjustment (-0.023%) was made to the file sourced from the LP. The LP file was volume matched to the Black Triangle version and then an EQ match was done (which shows that the following EQ curve would need to be used to make the Black Triangle CD version I have sound more like the LP version I'd 'dropped). The "upside down smiley face" EQ curve makes me think that the CD wasn't properly de-emphasised, alas.
01 - Come Together (Black Triangle CD version EQ-matched to Pro Use LP version by paul62).wav
hxxps://gofile.io/d/HKAkxd
Really appreciate the shares Paul!
