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If anybody is looking for HQ sbd sounding tapes, these are NOT those tapes. However, most are rare & generally what circulates in aud's are generations from these masters or low generation tapes. I'm one of those people that prefer SOME 'energetic' aud's over sbd's & these IMHO are 'energetic'.

As I move away from analog cassettes & snail trading to the digital domain of CDs & DATs & 'ETREEs', I'll be posting shows via the web on a regular basis.

To see my list of proposed music I'd like to ETREE & Tree.

If anybody has anything else that rarely circulates LMK & I'll add it to the list.

Performance:
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Grateful Dead: 06-14-84
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison CO
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Disc 1
Iko iko 08:12
Cassidy 06:12
It Must Have Been the Roses 06:34
Minglewood Blues 08:04
Brown-Eyed Women 05:21
Jack Straw > 06:42
# Day Job 04:06
Set II: Shakedown Street 14:19

Disc 2
Playing in the Band > 09:23
Dear Mr. Fantasy > 07:51
Drums # > 10:25
# Space > 02:26
Playing in the Band Reprise > 06:34
Black Peter > 07:44
Throwing Stones > 08:10
Not Fade Away 06:38
E: U.S. Blues 05:05

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I'm done editing 06/14/84 from the Bob Clinton 1st generation cassette.

To find out who did the masters during showtime I posed this question to Bob Clinton:
Do you remember his name and what mics he used?

His response:
"It was likely to be one of two guys: John Ladwig or Bob Griffiths, with Bob being the most probable candidate.

It was undoubtedly a Sony D5 and probably Senheiser mics (but I could be mistaken on this, if they patched into someone else's deck)."

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I was working with 2 WAV files broken down by CD1 & CD2 about 700 mb each.

This is what I did:

1) Sony 3-head TCk615s cassette > Turtle Bch. "Fiji" soundcard (flat) > CoolEdit Pro @ 44.1kHz with volume peaks at -3db. The right channel I recorded SLIGHTLY lower, since it was slightly higher then the left on the cassette.



2) CoolEdit function "Hiss Reduction" (with no noticeable high end loss):

Drag Points = 14
Reset = Med (straight line) -70db
Noise Floor Adjust = -5db
FFT size = 4096
Precision Factor = 5
Transition Width = 10db
Spectral Decay Rate = 65%
Reduce Hiss By = 14db



3) CoolEdit function "Amplify":

Various lowering & increasing of volume throughout the 5 steps listed here. The biggest was lowering the volume BEFORE "Stereo Expand/Pan" by about -4 db.



4) CoolEdit function "Stereo Expand/Pan":

200% straight line.



5) CoolEdit function "Graphic EQ":

30 band EQ function:

[less then 31 Hz = 10db], [39 Hz = 12db], [50 Hz = 12.8db], [62.5 Hz = 13.2db]
[80 Hz = 12db], [100 Hz = 8.4db], [125 Hz = 4.8db], [160 Hz = 4.6db]
[200 Hz = 0db], [250 Hz = -.8db], [320 Hz = -.8db], [400 Hz = 0db]
[500 Hz = .8db], [640 Hz = 1.6db], [800 Hz = 1.6db], [1000 Hz = 1.6db]
[1280 Hz = 1.6db], [1600 Hz = 1.6db], [2000 Hz = 1.6db], [2500 Hz = 1.2db]
[3200 Hz = 1.2db], [4000 Hz = 1.6db], [5000 Hz = 1.6db], [6400 Hz = 2db]
[8000 Hz = 2db], [10 kHz = 2.4db], [12.8 kHz = 2.4db], [16 kHz = 2db]
[20 kHz = 2db], [>25 kHz = 1.6db]

Accuracy = 800 points
Range = 36db
Master Gain = -4db



Resulting in the 2 WAV files that look like:

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Overall the new sound is very sweet IMHO! I think you'll be pleased with the way it sounds. BE CAREFUL, as you can see I turned up the bass real high, :) .

I'll be doing the other 2 shows from this run (6/12+13/84) within the next few weeks. They came from the same set of masters as 6/14 so they should sound very similar.

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Encoded to SHN by: Teddy "Good Bear" & posted the 1st time to alt.binaries.gdead on 9/13/99.

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