1964 - Toads Of The Short Forest 1.47 (progrockfan) Also known as Ned Has A Brainstorm Recorded 1964, Studio Z Presented by request of several Zappateers, and not meant to be taken too seriously: the Studio Z version of Toads Of The Short Forest with the 1975 radio voiceover almost completely removed, bringing FZ's blistering guitar to the front of the mix like never before. To create this hybrid remix, progrockfan performed the following digital surgery: Traded CDR > EAC v0.95 beta 4 > wav > Cool Edit Pro 2.1 > adjust lead-in from previous track > trim and fade lead-out > after Beefheart's spoken intro: delete left stereo track (where FZ's radio microphone is placed) > copy right track (containing the original mono image of Toads, with minimal voiceover bleedthrough) into left track > normalize to 0 dB > reconstitute track as mono wav > FLAC Frontend 1.7.1 > FLAC Level 8 > your ears The result is hardly perfect— but it's certainly an upgrade over the offline studio monitor mix found on Apocrypha and I Was A Teenage Malt Shop; and unless the ZFT chooses to release the true mono master, this is probably the best this track will ever sound. Enjoy!— progrockfan ---- av correction: picth bend -1 semitone levels adjusted