Teddy "Good Bear's"
Grateful Dead
Audience Tree #1
(In association with The Family Tree)
Idea Man and founder: Teddy "Good Bear"
Conspirators and playground keepers:
David Sorochty - administrator for batch #1
Mark Grason - administrator for batch #2
Teddy GoodBear, Hanno Bunjes & Al Zeffer - assistants to the administrators
Mike Hall - consulting administrator
Tim Buller - web site consultant
Rick Raver - CD label creator
Redbeard & Darrin Sacks - FTP admins
David Sorochty - web page coordinator
Mike Hall & Teddy GoodBear - web page contibutors
Spring '77 Tour - Batch #1
April 25, 1977
Capitol Theatre, Passaic, N.J.
and
April 26, 1977
Capitol Theatre, Passaic, N.J.
Tape History:
I also want to keep you up-to-date as to the progress of my conversions for
these '77 analog masters I have to the digital domain. I have almost
a complete set of CD's made up for most of my masters, so I don't need to
keep using them as they are getting old and deteriorating rapidly. Besides,
they leave a residue on my cassette decks heads. I have to clean my
heads every time I play just one tape.
1st a little of the process I've been going through to do said conversions.
I'm working with "Cool Edit96","GoldWave" and others to get it to my computer
as well as edit the "wav" files and then burn to CD. I then do a optical
(digital) connection recording, from my CD player to my DAT deck or straight from my computer to my DAT deck with the digital I/O on my soundcard.
After finding the right levels I got 4/26/77 to sound pretty good with only
minor editing by way of equalizing. It sounded good on my computer as "wav"
files. Making the burn to CD the 1st couple of times resulted in a slightly
distorted, along with a touch of hiss, on the finished product. To get rid
of the distortion I lowered the volume along the entire waveform and burned
another CD. The levels are a tad low, but this result was much better.
On 4/25/77, I changed the sound from the original even more. The result is
less background noise. 4/25/77 still is energetic sounding. It by no means
is as good as 4/26 in quality, but I don't. think this circulates in any
better quality. If anyone has a good aud master of 4/25/77, I'd be interested
to hear it.
I then decided to buy a "Turtle Beach Fiji w/digital I/O" soundcard. Boy
what a difference! The analog > digital conversion (as well as other areas)
was much better on the new card vs. my old "Creative Ensoniq" card. I started
the process over, but this time with less trial & error.
So what did I do you ask? The specs were:
4/25/77
1) Sony 3-head cassette deck (TC-K615S) > 10 band equalizer, "eq".
The "eq" settings:
31Hz 62Hz 125Hz
250Hz 500Hz 1kHz 2kHz 4kHz 8kHz
16kHz
Left: 13db 13db 13db 13db 13db 13db
12db 11db 10db 9db
Right: 13db 13db 13db 13db 13db
12db 10db 10db 10db 9db
2) > My computer using "CoolEdit96".
3) "CoolEdit96" noise reduction, just to remove some of the hiss &
a little background noise, (after "Get Noise Profile from Selection").
Noise Reduction Level = 7
FTP size = 8192
Number of statistical snapshots in profile = 96
Precision Factor = 10
Smoothing Amount = 1
Transition With = 0 db
4) In "GoldWave" I echoed as follows:
Delay(s) = 0.100
Volume (%) = 20
Reverb = unchecked
5) Then I used "GoldWave's Dynamics" for amplitude of the dynamic range.
I used the preset of "Soft Clip" which maintains the nice rounded waveform
curve from top to bottom.
6) And finally I normalized, lowered and raised the volume (around
0.750db) where needed so the waveform was more uniform. The entire process
takes days for just one show. This seems to give the best results. Their
are hundreds or more combinations of these settings, but I think the above
works best on 4/25.
4/26/77
1) Sony 3-head cassette deck (TC-K615S) > 10 band equalizer, "eq". The
"eq" settings:
31Hz 62Hz 125Hz 250Hz
500Hz 1kHz 2kHz 4kHz 8kHz 16kHz
Left: 13db 13db 13db 13db 13db
13db 12db 11db 10db 9db
Right: 13db 13db 13db 13db 13db
12db 10db 10db 10db 9db
2) > My computer using "CoolEdit96".
3) "CoolEdit96" noise reduction, just to remove some of the hiss, (after
"Get Noise Profile from Selection").
Noise Reduction Level = 5
FTP size = 8192
Number of statistical snapshots in profile = 96
Precision Factor = 10
Smoothing Amount = 1
Transition With = 0 db
4) CoolEdit96's "normalize" at 95%.
MAKING INTO DIGITAL MEDIA
After the above I did the following to make the CDR seeds:
1) Used "CDwav" to split the tracks.
2) Made the burn at 2x's speed using "EZ CD Creator".
For the DAT's:
1) 2 "wav" files on my computer, 1 per set, for each show. Total size about
1.5gb for each show.
2) Play the "wav" files from a playlist using "Turtle Beach's Audio Station
2" software > Coaxial (digital) connection from my computer to my "Sony
PCM-R300" DAT deck*
*Interesting footnote - On 4/25 I tried to do a CD > Optical (digital)
connection > DAT, but for some unknown reason, their was a little distortion
that is NOT on the CD. So to get rid of this, I went straight from my computer
to my DAT deck, again digitally.
Compendium Reviews:
Although the Deadhead's Taping Compendium
Volume 2: 1975-1985 has not been published yet, here's a sneak peak at
the reviews which will be published for these shows:
to advance-order a copy of the Deadhead's
Taping Compendium Volume 2: 1975 -1985 from Amazon or from the author
Michael Getz! Volume 1 (1959 - 1974) is still available
too!
Other Reviews:
See what others have to say about tree #1. If you'd like to add a positive review send Teddy "Good Bear" a email with your review & it will be added to this site!
Media Required:
90 meter DAT option = TWO 90 meter tapes (one per show)
-or-
60 meter DAT option = FOUR 60 meter tapes (one per set)
-or-
FOUR CD-Rs
-or-
FOUR analog cassettes for CD>A or DAT>A only
Side A:
New Minglewood Blues - 5:15
Deal - 5:09
Mama Tried - 3:20
They Love Each Other - 6:56
Looks Like Rain - 8:05
Peggy-O - 8:51
Lazy Lightnin' > - 5:52
Supplication - 1:45
Side B:
Ship Of Fools - 6:22
Estimated Prophet - 7:59
Brown Eyed Women - 5:23
The Music Never Stopped (cut) - 1:22
Encore: U. S. Blues - 5:43
Tape #1 Total Time - 72:09
Side A:
Scarlet Begonias > - 9:11
Fire On The Mountain - 11:07
Samson And Delilah - 8:12
Side B:
Terrapin Station > - 10:26
Playing In The Band > - 9:26
Drums > - 4:05
Wharf Rat > - 10:38
Space > - 5:26
Playing In The Band - 4:25
Tape #2 Total Time - 73:02
Side A:
Set 1:
Bertha - 5:21
Me And My Uncle - 3:10
It Must Have Been The Roses - 6:41
Cassidy - 4:58
Tennessee Jed - 8:24
Big River - 5:30
Friend Of The Devil - 8:37
Side B:
Estimated Prophet - 8:28
Deal - 6:03
Set 2:
Good Lovin' - 5:22
Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo - 10:55
Tape #3 Total Time - 73:38
Side A:
Set 2 cont'd:
Dancin' In The Streets > - 14:43
Drums > - 4:40
Eyes Of The World > - 12:27
Samson And Delilah - 6:53
Side B:
Stella Blue > - 12:35
Sugar Magnolia - 9:13
(no encore)
Tape #4 Total Time - 60:29
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At the heart of Teddy Good Bear's AUD Trees is the core structure which consists
of various folks who make up the original Seed provider, Root positions and
some Trunk positions. The members of the core structure are permanent
members and should have their tapes in hand well before closing of the
application period. From the Root we will have a Trunk layer which
will pass tapes to the various Branch Heads who pass tapes to the various leaves, consisting of DAT, CDR and Analog members. Priority will be given to Analog Leaf applications based on
ability and willingness to spread these tapes to the tape trading community
outside of Teddy Good Bears's AUD Trees.
This means you can sign-up as an "Analog Branch" or remain a "leaf" by signing up as an "Analog Branch". It's up to you as an "Analog Branch" if you want to make copies for others based on the honor system OUTSIDE of this tree.
At the Root we will have a DAT 60 meter section, a DAT 90 meter section and
a CDR section.
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David Sorochty the Teddy "Good Bear" tape tree administrator for AUD tree #1.