Grateful Dead
10/11/1984
Augusta Civic Center
Augusta, ME
Source: FOB Beyer M160s > Sony TCD5M > Master Audience Cassette (Maxell MX90 Type IV Cassettes)
Recorded and generously provided for transfer by Derek McCabe.
Transfer: MAC playback on Nakamich DR-2 > Audiophile 2496 > recorded as 24bit /96 KHz WAV > Wavelab/Waves L3 (see notes) > rendered to 16/44.1 WAV > CDWAV 1.9 > FLAC (level 8). Transfer/mastering by Chris Ladner.
DISC I - SET I
01 crowd [00:57]
02 One Shakedown Street [15:00]
03 Greatest Story Ever Told [04:53]
04 Peggy-O [08:57]
05 Mama Tried > [03:08]
06 Big River [06:29]
07 Ramble On Rose [08:36]
08 Looks Like Rain [08:56]
09 Might As Well [04:25]
Total time: 61:26
DISC II - SET II
01 Hell In A Bucket > [06:31]
02 Touch Of Grey [06:56]
03 Man Smart (Woman Smarter) [08:31]
04 Ship Of Fools [08:26]
05 Playin' In The Band > [13:32]
06 Drums// > Space > [04:42]
07 Dear Mr. Fantasy > [07:36]
08 Black Peter > [08:44]
09 Sugar Magnolia > [06:05]
10 Sunshine Daydream [03:33]
Encore
10 Keep Your Day Job [04:31]
Total time: 79:11
Transfer and mastering notes:
- Thanks to Derek for loaning me his master cassette.
- Tape heads were cleaned and demagged prior to transfering each set.
- Tape bias tuned to +1.
- Recorded to 24 bit/96 KHz WAV with Wavelab 5.0 on P4 1.8 GHz PC with no other apps running/background processes minimized.
- All editing/mastering was done on the 24/96 files prior to rendering to 16 bit.
- Gapless stereo 24 bit/96 KHz DVD-A rendering was also generated with Discwelder Chrome.
- Waves XNoise Noise reduction: 10 second segment of nonmusical tape noise was "learned" as a noise mask and subtracted at a threshold of 2 dB and 50%. This resulted in a > 10 dB drop in noise level without coloration.
- Waves L3 Multimaximizer with "Warm" IDR setting, threshold of -4.0 dB, ceiling of -0.1 dB, type I dither, ultra shaping rendered to 16/44.1 KHz.
- Crossfades smoothed gaps between tape pauses between songs and flips.
- Drums is truncated and crossfaded into Space as one track.
SHNTOOL LEN OUTPUT:
length expanded size cdr WAVE probs filename
0:57.44 10158332 --- -- -xx gd1984-10-11d1t01.flac
15:00.37 158847068 --- -- -xx gd1984-10-11d1t02.flac
4:53.39 51776972 --- -- -xx gd1984-10-11d1t03.flac
8:57.70 94891484 --- -- -xx gd1984-10-11d1t04.flac
3:08.39 33254972 --- -- -xx gd1984-10-11d1t05.flac
6:29.35 68701964 --- -- -xx gd1984-10-11d1t06.flac
8:36.31 91095356 --- -- -xx gd1984-10-11d1t07.flac
8:56.56 94682156 --- -- -xx gd1984-10-11d1t08.flac
4:25.59 46884812 --- -- -xx gd1984-10-11d1t09.flac
6:31.04 68981852 --- -- -xx gd1984-10-11d2t01.flac
6:56.19 73427132 --- -- -xx gd1984-10-11d2t02.flac
8:31.14 90173372 --- -- -xx gd1984-10-11d2t03.flac
8:26.60 89399564 --- -- -xx gd1984-10-11d2t04.flac
13:32.62 143382668 --- -- -xx gd1984-10-11d2t05.flac
4:42.49 49860092 --- -- -xx gd1984-10-11d2t06.flac
7:36.60 80579564 --- -- -xx gd1984-10-11d2t07.flac
8:44.28 92499500 --- -- -xx gd1984-10-11d2t08.flac
6:05.12 64414268 --- -- -xx gd1984-10-11d2t09.flac
3:33.03 37580300 --- -- -xx gd1984-10-11d2t10.flac
4:31.10 47827964 --- -- -xx gd1984-10-11d2t11.flac
140:37.56 1488419392 B (totals for 20 files)