Picasso Moon > | 1994-03-21 | Grateful Dead

View NotesNotes:
-- Tapes made for Vince Welnick by Dick Latvala
-- Thanks to David Beckwith for supplying the tapes
-- Thanks to Mike Babyak for his input on this project
-- Thanks to Scott Clugston for doing the pitch correction
-- This is 158160 2496 > 1644

SOURCE 2 OF 7

2:38:20

SBD

Taper:

Tapes made for Vince Welnick by Dick Latvala, supplied by David Beckwith

Transferrer:

All Transfers and Mastering by Charlie Miller charliemiller87@earthlink.net September 15, 2022

SHNID:

gd1994-03-21.158160.sbd.miller.flac2448

Source:

SBD > DAT Master (Panasonic SV-3700/48k) > Cassette Master (Tascam 122mkIII/TDK SA-X100)

Lineage:

Cassette Master (Nakamichi CR-7A) > Tascam DA-3000 (DSF 1-bit/5.6MHz) > Tascam Hi-Res Editor (WAV 24-bit/48k) > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Samplitude Pro X6 Suite > FLAC/24

Taper Notes:

View NotesNotes:
-- Tapes made for Vince Welnick by Dick Latvala
-- Thanks to David Beckwith for supplying the tapes
-- Thanks to Mike Babyak for his input on this project
-- Thanks to Scott Clugston for doing the pitch correction

SOURCE 3 OF 7

gd1994-03-21.140296.set2.dsbd.wise.miller.clugston.flac1644

Source:

Master Soundboard Dat > Dat

Taper Notes:

View NotesNotes:
- Thanks to Jim Wise for the Dat source and the transfer
- Thanks to Charlie Miller for coordinating this effort
- The 2nd set of the soundboard in general circulation (shnid6258) has a cassette generation
- Thanks to the folks responsible for the shnid110568 B&K 4011 source which supplies the "Encore Break" as well as the "Liberty" encore
- "He's Gone" (including Jam) clocks in at 23:50

Mastered by Scott Clugston
12/19/17

SOURCE 4 OF 7

Matrix by Roger Eichorn

SHNID:

gd1994-03-21.125739.mtx.eichorn.sbeok.t-flac16

Source:

Matrix of Source 1: SBD > DAT > CDR > SHNv3 and Source 2: AUD Source (handheld/ORTF/110^/DFC/FOB/18th Row) B&K 4011s > Neumann BS48i-2 > TCD-D3 > DAT(m)

Lineage:

DAT(m) > Sony DTC-59ES > SPDIF > Tascam HD-P2 > Audacity (16/48 > 16/44) > CDWave > FLAC; matrix by Roger Eichorn

Taper Notes:

View NotesGeneral Notes:

- Thanks go to everyone who worked on and made available the sources used in this matrix.  Obviously, this project would have been impossible without their prior efforts.

- Both sets are seamless.

- Stella Blue, Stella Blue, STELLA BLUE!!!

(The first set is pretty good, too.  "Bertha, Bertha -- OH MY GOD!"  Hilarious.  We learn the rest of the story after the song: apparently he'd been on tour for some time and had never heard a Bertha.  Good for him!)

Technical Notes:

- The sources were remastered and mixed in Logic Pro 9.  A bunch of clean-up was done, at various stages, using iZotope RX 3 Advanced.  The sets were split in WaveLab LE 7.  SBE's were fixed using Trader's Little Helper.  Conversions to and from .flac and .wav were done using dbPowerAmp.

- The SBD source is missing a small portion of "Drums" as well as the encore.

- The SBD source is weird.  The first set is nearly perfect (esp. in terms of speed), but the second set has numerous problems.  First of all, it's slow -- indeed, it's progressively slow as the set goes on.  It starts out around 1% slow and ends up about 2% slow.  This might not sound like a lot, but it is.

I mention this especially because the undisputed highlight of the show is the Stella Blue.  But the Stella Blue appears late in the second set, which means that the SBD source is nearly 2% slow during that track.  In other words, any of you out there who have, like me, listened to this version of Stella many, many times, we've always been hearing it slow.  Now, unless we have perfect pitch, we've never listened to it and thought, "Boy, that sure is slow!"  But it sounds *even better* heard at the proper speed, whether or not you have perfect pitch.

For this reason alone, I think this matrix is a serious upgrade over the SBD copy.

- Another problem with the SBD: the second set is noisy.  There's harsh hiss and crackling throughout.  It's especially noticeable during any quiet parts.  I tried to tame it where I could, but it seems that these problems came out of the SBD that night (since you can hear them in the AUD copy).  So they're not artifacts of a faulty transfer, and they're pretty much impossible to get rid of entirely (if you're me, at least).

- For the first set, I slowed the AUD source down by 0.01% using the iZotope Radius algorithm.  For the second set, I split it into small sections and speed- and pitch-corrected them all individually.  Further fine-tune syncing was done in Logic Pro 9.

Roger Eichorn
reichorn@gmail.com
September 23, 2013

SOURCE 5 OF 7

gd94-03-21.sbd.ladner.6258.sbeok.shnf

Source:

SBD > DAT > CDR > SHNv3

Taper Notes:

View NotesSBD > DAT > CDR > SHNv3; via johnathan miller, candyman

SOURCE 6 OF 7

gd1994-03-21.130919.boedicker.flac16

Source:

Sony WM-D6C Cassette Deck>Cassette Master>Nakamichi 300 Micsd W/CP4 Shotguns>Sony TC-D5M Cassette Deck(Playback)>Edirol R-09 HR(24/44.1 KHZ)>CD Wav Editor>Traders Little Helper>Flac Level 8.Sector Boundaries Aligned Using Traders Little Helper; Taped By Dave Boedicker,Official Taper Section

Taper Notes:

View Notes1)Quality IS About A Or A-(Subjective Of Course).Samples Included.I Thought The Sound

Was Better This Night Than The Previous Night.Better Performance Also.

2)Tape Flip After "Queen jane Approximately"(No Music missed On Next Song 
"West LA Fadeaway".

3)Tape Flip During "Drums"

Enjoy!!!!

SOURCE 7 OF 7

gd1994-03-21.110568.bk.schmit.sbeok.flac16

Source:

Source: (handheld/ORTF/110^/DFC/FOB/18th Row) B&K 4011s > Neumann BS48i-2 > TCD-D3 > DAT(m)

Lineage:

DAT(m) > Sony DTC-59ES > SPDIF > Tascam HD-P2 > Audacity (16/48 > 16/44) > CDWave > FLAC; DAT(m) sourced by Alan Schmit; Transfer by Terry Watts

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