The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #133600   Message #3040794
Posted By: ChrisJBrady
26-Nov-10 - 09:12 AM
Thread Name: Peter Bellamy: Maritime English Suite
Subject: RE: Peter Bellamy: Maritime English Suite
Sorry that the MP3 320kbps file sounds so ghastly to you. Its the highest bit rate available on MP3. And it is the largest file I can upload to Mediafire at this time for folks to download.

Am not sure what you mean by 'tape noise.' As Itxlan stated the recording was made from the line out port(s) of his radio onto TDK metal tape sans any filtering - in 1982 - over 28 years ago. All processing from then on, both by him and myself, has been done with domestic equipment using lossless formats. The resulting FLAC files kindly created and uploaded by Itxlan are only available on TheBox. I have not uploaded them to Mediafire since there is now a project to try and formally re-issue the Suite on CD. Also they are too big for my Mediafire upload and storage allowance.

Hopefully the original master(s) might be discovered lurking in the Beeb's archives - or more likely at the British Library (although their Sound Archive Catalogue has no entries for Peter Bellemy at all).

Failing that the tape from Itxlan may be all that we have, and using professional studio equipment I am sure that a worthwhile CD can be produced.