tuning | 1972-08-12 | Grateful Dead

View Notes- Thanks to the folks who made the Tascam DA-3000 possible, this one's for you. The first of many
- Upgrade is in the transfer
- Thanks to Will Boswell for the source reels
- Thanks to Matt Smith for the transfer
- Thanks to Charlie Miller for coordinating this effort
- "El Paso" cuts
- "Tennessee Jed" cuts in
- splice in "Jack Straw"
- first few notes of "Greatest Story Ever Told" are missing
- splice in the first "The Other One"
- splice in "Sugar Magnolia" 
- transitions smoothed (where needed)

Transfer by Matt Smith
Mastered by Scott Clugston
Date 11/11/17

SOURCE 2 OF 6

3:07:24

SBD

gd1972-08-12.127465.sbd.boswell.smith.flac16

Source:

master reel @7.5ips> J.Garcia's reel @ 3.75ips > Will Boswell's reel @ 3.75ips

Lineage:

Akai GX636 direct tape head output > Bottlehead tube tape pre w/ a pair of Telefunken tubes circa 1960 > Apogee Mini Me 24/96 > Apogee Mini DAC monitoring and mastering > FLAC

Taper Notes:

View NotesNotes:
This was originally circulated in 2009 as shn-id 104168
Matt has retransferred the master using his Bottleneck front end, which was recently improved by the addition of Telefunken tubes to replace the original Teslas tubes.


From 2009 - 
Matt said...  "To me, it's the whole second set jam that does it for me!!  It sounds more like a Bear mix to me but regardless, one of the finest recordings of the year."

SOURCE 3 OF 6

Will Boswell; Matt Smith

SHNID:

gd1972-08-12.127433.sbd.boswell.smith.flac24

Source:

master reel @7.5ips> J.Garcia's reel @ 3.75ips > Will Boswell's reel @ 3.75ips

Lineage:

Akai GX636 direct tape head output > Bottlehead tube tape pre pair Telefunken tubes circa 1980 > Apogee Mini Me 24/96 > Apogee Mini DAC monitoring and mastering > FLAC

Taper Notes:

View NotesThis was originally circulated in 2009 as shn-id 104168.  Matt has restransferred the master using his Bottleneck front end, which was recently improved by the addion of Telefunken tubes to replace the original Teslas tubes.

From 2009 - 
Matt said...  "To me, it's the whole second set jam that does it for me!!  It sounds more like a Bear mix to me but regardless, one of the finest recordings of the year."

SOURCE 4 OF 6

Jamie Waddell and Matt Smith

SHNID:

gd1972-08-12.sbd.smith.gems.105132.flac16

Source:

master reel @7.5ips> J.Garcia's reel @ 3.75ips > Will Boswell's reel @ 3.75ips > Apogee DAC> Apogee Mini Me > Wavelab 5.0 @ 24 bit 96kHz Edited and Mastered by Jamie Waddell on the **GEMS** Edit Station Weiss-Saracon for SRC and Pow-r3 Dither to 16 bit 44.1kHz tracked in CDWAV Tag&Rename for Meta_Data TLH for FLAC Level 8 by Patrick White (wharfratpat@shnflac.net)

SOURCE 5 OF 6

Matt Smith and Jamie Waddell

SHNID:

gd1972-08-12.sbd.gems.104168.flac24

Source:

master reel @7.5ips> J.Garcia's reel @ 3.75ips > Will Boswell's reel @ 3.75ips

Lineage:

Will Boswell's reel @ 3.75ips > Apogee DAC> Apogee Mini Me Wavelab 5.0 @ 24 bit 96kHz; Edited and Mastered on the **GEMS** Edit Station Weiss-Saracon for Pow-r3 Dither MetaData with Tag and Rename TLH for FLAC Level 8

Taper Notes:

View Notes- first circulating version of the encore, OMSN
- elpaso cuts out
- tennessed jed cuts in
- splice in jack straw
- first notes of GSET missing
- strange splice in other one, not much missing
- cut in sugar magnolia

Matt said...  "To me, it's the whole second set jam that does it for me!!  It sounds more like a Bear mix to me but regardless, one of the finest recordings of the year."

SOURCE 6 OF 6

gd72-08-12.sbd.hamilton.3327.sbeok.shnf

Source:

Soundboard

Lineage:

SBD Reel master > DAT > CDR > EAC > SHN

Taper Notes:

View NotesSBD Reel master > DAT > CDR > EAC > SHN; seed via Seth Kaplan; Retracked (Cool Edit/CDWav) by G.S. Hamilton; see info file for listening notes