Grateful Dead 03/28/86
Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland, ME
Source Summary
flac16; Sick Bits Vol. 28 - AUD1/SBD/AUD2 matrix of 3 previously circulating sources: AUD1 (shnid=32520) + SBD (shnid=31603) + AUD2 (shnid=5004)-low end only. Matrixed by Chris Chappell.
Grateful Dead
Cumberland County Civic Center
Portland, ME
3-28-86 II
Sick Bits Vol. 28

Source: Matrix: AUD1/SBD/AUD2 mix
Ratio/%: 2:2:1 - 40/40/20

SBD: shnid=31603
(unknown lineage) > Cx? (Tascam322 to Marantz CDR500) > CDR > EAC >
WavMerge > Soundforge > CD-Wave > TLH > FLAC Frontend.
via Joey Browning via Jake Feinberg via ?

AUD1: shnid=32520
Source: FOB Sennheiser ME88 > D5 > Maxell Metal Cassette master
Transfer:  Playback on Nakamichi BX-100 > Panasonic SV 3700 DAT>
           Tascam CD-RW 700> EAC > FLAC
Original recording, transfer, and FLAC'ing by Bill Koucky
Mastering by Chris Ladner (Wavelab 5 > CD WAV > FLAC)

AUD2: shnid=5004 (low end only)
Source: FOB(Center)>AUD>MC>CDR
Neumann U87's>Uher CR240>
        Maxell XLII 90 Cass. Master>Marantz Pro CDR 500
Recorded by Paul Hogan, transferred and encoded by Charles Hogan (EAC/SHN)

Matrix:
FLAC/SHN > WAV > Vegas 5 > CD WAV > FLAC
Edited, Mixed and Encoded by Chris Chappell
scarfireATliquidcityDOTcom
7-11-06
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Set II only

d2t01 - crowd/tuning
d2t02 - Playin' In The Band >
d2t03 - Franklin's Tower >
d2t04 - I Need A Miracle >
d2t05 - Playin' Jam >
d2t06 - Drumz >
d2t07 - Space >
d2t08 - The Wheel >
d2t09 - Dear Mr. Fantasy >
d2t10 - Playin' Reprise >
d2t11 - Around & Around >
d2t12 - Good Lovin'
d2t13 - E: Baby Blue

Total Time: 79:13

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General Notes:

When Bill and Chris recently seeded their new FOB source of this show, I
was curious to see how it would sound coupled with a pretty deterioted
SBD.  I also wanted to see what the Hogan FOB would sound like with the
board.  While doing an A/B comparison of the two possible matrices I
realized that all 3 sources actually complement each other.  The Hogan
AUD seems to have better low end presence, while the Koucky AUD has more
clarity in the mids and highs.  Even though this was the era of the
taper's section, Healy allowed tapers for this show to set up FOB.  
Don't ask me why he did that, but in a small 9,000 seat civic center,
both of these FOB's sound stellar.  Thus, the matrix isn't a vast
improvement, but it does sound good, due to the quality of the AUDs,
and full coverage is achieved. This was the last Dead show played at this
venue, and I enjoyed every minute of it - I just wish the first set SBD
would surface so I could finish of the show.  I did this matrix before the
MOTB source was released, and I never checked to see if it would work well
with the SBD.  It probably would, but again, it's not like this matrix
is a vast improvement over any of the AUD sources.  A great sounding venue,
with multiple stellar FOB sources available, now you have yet another option.
(seeded 11/2/08)
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Editing Notes:

- Pitch/Synch
The two AUD sources were pretty close in pitch, so I decided to use
AUD1 as my master pitch/synch ref.  The SBD had to be pitched up between
12 and 30 cents, while the AUD2 had to be pitched only +1 to -2 cents.
No source was allowed to be out of synch with any of the others by
more than 4 milliseconds thus effectively minimizing phase issues.

- Sonic Quality/Matrix ratio
No EQ or NR was applied to the SBD and AUD1 sources. For the AUD2 I used
a low pass filter starting at about 700K and ending at 300K.  This means
about half of the signal at 500K is getting through and everything below
300K gets through; i.e. there is no high midrange or high end used from
this source - only the low mids and low end which compliment the AUD1
source nicely.  Having both AUDs matrixed together equally resulted in too
much signal in the midrange especially, so I opted for the low pass filter
approach which seems to work well.  I applied very sparingly Waves L2
(limiter) to the master 2 buss to keep all three sources contained, the
levels rarely hitting zero, thus the limiting is quite scarce. All I was
trying to do here is to add some punch to the FOB AUDs by using a little
SBD in the mix. The result is a lively but clear recording, hopefully
close to how it sounded at the show. If I had to guess the AUD1/SBD/AUD2
ratio would be somewhere around 2:2:1 or actually a ratio of Phi (62%/38%)
AUD/SBD.  

- Edits
The following are places where the SBD and AUDs had splices, holes or
incomplete coverage in reference to the final matrix timeline.

SBD:
d2t01 (0:00 - 3:43) - missing (crowd/tuning)
d2t07>8 (4:27 - 0:08) - missing 1:26 (tape flip)
d2t12 (7:10 - 8:44) - missing (crowd)
d2t13 (6:51 - 6:59) - missing (crowd)

AUD1:
d2t06 (7:12 - 7:53) - missing (tape flip)

AUD2:
d2t01 (0:00 - 3:30) - missing (crowd/tuning)
d2t06>7 (7:02 - 1:18) - missing 4:28 (tape flip)
d2t12 (7:11 - 8:15) - missing (crowd)
d2t13 (6:52 - 6:59) - missing (crowd)

Full coverage is achieved and nary is there a moment when only one source
is present.

Enjoy!
-Chappy
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SHNTOOL:

    length     expanded size   cdr  WAVE problems filename
     3:49.01       40397996    ---   --   ---xx   gd86-03-28d2t01.flac
     8:14.49       87256892    ---   --   ---xx   gd86-03-28d2t02.flac
     7:04.35       74875964    ---   --   ---xx   gd86-03-28d2t03.flac
     4:29.45       47557484    ---   --   ---xx   gd86-03-28d2t04.flac
     8:05.30       85624604    ---   --   ---xx   gd86-03-28d2t05.flac
     7:09.56       75807356    ---   --   ---xx   gd86-03-28d2t06.flac
     8:25.44       89185532    ---   --   ---xx   gd86-03-28d2t07.flac
     4:20.43       45965180    ---   --   ---xx   gd86-03-28d2t08.flac
     5:31.62       58534268    ---   --   ---xx   gd86-03-28d2t09.flac
     2:35.19       27386732    ---   --   ---xx   gd86-03-28d2t10.flac
     3:40.07       38824508    ---   --   ---xx   gd86-03-28d2t11.flac
     8:46.10       92809964    ---   --   ---xx   gd86-03-28d2t12.flac
     6:59.15       73946924    ---   --   ---xx   gd86-03-28d2t13.flac
    79:11.41      838173404 B (totals for 13 files, 0.6151 overall compression ratio)
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