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Audionut wrote:
On 3 Feb, 09:11, Jim Lesurf wrote:
In article , Don Pearce

wrote:
On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:19:55 GMT, "Brian Gaff"
wrote:
Not sure how to go about this. Just 'restored' a tape I made of
Petula Clark Live in London from the Beeb. its actually quite a
good recording, none of this squashed dynamic radio 2 do these
days. Anyway, can anyone tell me when this was put out? I need to
label the cd!

Brian
It was broadcast on Friday Night is Music Night on 15th December.
The year was any of 2006, 2000, 1995, 1989.

I'm now curious to learn how you know the above! :-)

FWIW I have a number of old radio recordings. Usually I wrote down the
date at the time. But didn't for some of them. Is there a generic way
to find out this info? I'd assumed not.

Don't know which year, but they all had 15th December fall on a
Friday.

I'm wondering if the relative lack of level compression implies the
earliest date?


According to the BBC website, it was 2006, so maybe the compression
isn't as intrusive as you'd think?

I'll have to pass on that since so far as the Pet Clark is concerned I was
commenting on the basis of what Brian said. Not my cup of tea! :-)

My own recordings extend back to the 1970s. Most are in the 1970 - 1985
period, although a few are pre 1970. IIRC The BBC didn't start using any
systematic automated level compression (as distinct from limiters) until
the mid 1980s.

Slainte,

Jim

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