Grateful Dead
Pico Acid Test
Carthay Studios,
Los Angeles, CA
March 19, 1966
Source: Soundboard - provided by Paul Scotton (MSR > R > D > CDR > EAC > CD Wave > Flac)
01 //Viola Lee Blues
02 //One Kind Favor
03 I Know You Rider
04 You See A Broken Heart
05 It's A Sin
06 tuning
07 Beat It On Down The Line
08 Heads//Up
09 PA complaints, noodling
10 Next Time You See Me
11 ice cream banter
12 Slow R and B instrumental
//Death Don't Have No Mercy
In The Midnight Hour//
Notes:
This is a remaster of shn id 81951.
Paul had heard the way that I had ewmastered a QMS show and wondered whether it might possible to do the same for this. It is a typical Bear mix with vocals in one channel and instruments in the other. So I agreed to see what could be done.
First I joined all the files together and loaded it into iZotope RX 8 Advanced. It is possible to split tracks into component parts and I ended up with four stereo files, vocals, bass, percussion and other instruments. This effectively gave me eight channels to work with.
I then loaded these four tracks into the multi-channel module of Adobe Audition 3 and set about adjusting levels track by track until I was reasonably happy with what I had. A mixdown was then made which I loaded into RX 8. I sent Paul a sample for him to listen to and he thought it sound ok but asked whether it might be possible to make the sound of Pigpen's organ more prominent as it was very low in the original mix. After several attempts I decided that the best way would ptobably be to add some eq. It has worked to some extent but not as much as we would like. I also eq'd the bass a little too.
"Heads Up" has a cut around 2:36, the two parts have been crossfaded together
I also removed quite a number of clicks.
We think that this sounds much better overall, the mix now gives a better listening experience.
Thanks to Paul for providing the original recording and his help with this project.
The most surprising thing to me about this Acid Test is that Tiny Tim was billed to appear, whether he did I don't know.
remastered by SIRMick
October 2021
shntool output
length expanded size cdr WAVE problems fmt ratio filename
11:48.30 124961804 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5233 gd1969-03-19t01.flac
4:17.48 45447740 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5259 gd1969-03-19t02.flac
2:40.71 28391036 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5364 gd1969-03-19t03.flac
3:16.62 34720268 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.4924 gd1969-03-19t04.flac
3:13.67 34202828 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.4856 gd1969-03-19t05.flac
1:32.68 16388780 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.4256 gd1969-03-19t06.flac
4:06.27 43457948 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5317 gd1969-03-19t07.flac
4:05.14 43250972 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5433 gd1969-03-19t08.flac
2:12.55 23414204 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.4249 gd1969-03-19t09.flac
2:57.11 31248716 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.4862 gd1969-03-19t10.flac
1:46.07 18714908 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.4513 gd1969-03-19t11.flac
7:46.38 82291820 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5702 gd1969-03-19t12.flac
6:03.28 64099100 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.4902 gd1969-03-19t13.flac
10:44.25 113660444 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.4964 gd1969-03-19t14.flac
66:32.26 704250568 B 0.5114 (14 files)
flac fingerprints:
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