Pink Floyd

I'll start with one of their non-charting 45s, which I special-ordered in August, 1972 after hearing it as one of the currents on the local oldies station.

"Free Four" is a bit of an odd duck. While its parent album Obscured By Clouds bore Capitol's Harvest imprint, the 45 was issued on the Capitol label, not Harvest.

Both the stock and promo 45s fade the song out beginning at 3:21, roughly 20 seconds earlier than on the LP. The 45 fades more quickly, out at 3:31.5 vs. 4:03 on the LP.

"Sway" is the B-side on both stock and promo copies, with the timing shown as 3:58.

Edited by Yah Shure

Edtop40, it takes a lot of patience and sometimes many rescans to get the alignment just right. The HP scanner I use is not a great performer, and tends to leave bands, especially across black areas. But it's perfect for this task. The HP Scanjet 4670 was in production for only a short time.

This scanner does not lie flat. It sits at an angle in its stand and looks like a picture frame with a clear window, so you can position the record, then lay the see-through scanning window over it. This makes it much easier to assess the initial scan, then pull back the scanning window just enough to nudge the top of the 45 a hair left or right without going too far.

For label scans, I scan at 1200 dpi, then edit if necessary, saving the original in an uncompressed format. From there, I sharpen the image to the max, then reduce it to 125 dpi, then doing a medium sharpening. After saving the resized image, I'll use that to convert to jpg, varying the quality by the image colors (red and orange bleed more at lower quality settings.) Trial and error is the way to go here, so having the saved scans to go back to eliminates frustration.

I get the best results by starting with the maximum resolution, then working from there.

but....how do you get the scan to show on the chat board.....everytime i try and add a scan, it asks me for a web site id and i can't just upload a scan from my photobook on my computer.....how do you do it...if you can give me a step by step list, that would be helpful...btw....i have an hp scanner and i have the same issues with alignment and clarity...

I was in a "vinyl" record store that carries CDs a few weeks ago. They had a "best of" Pink Floyd CD and it was not "Echos." Does anyone know if any single versions appear? I know "Time" was on there and the run time was long so that was the LP version but what about "Run Like Hell." I don't remember the run time of that one and do not remember if the album version is the same length but I do remember that the end of the song on the 45 has sound effects edited out.

Yah Shure wrote: I'll start with one of their non-charting 45s, which I special-ordered in August, 1972 after hearing it as one of the currents on the local oldies station.

Seems unusual to hear PF on ANY station pre-"Dark Side Of The Moon", let alone as a current on an oldies station! I could see a new release by a core artist, but PF was not well known in 1972.