El Paso | 1978-04-10 | Grateful Dead

View NotesNotes:

- "The Music Never Stopped" and "Franklin's Tower" have been patched with shnid 81262 - Thank you Alan Zimmerman and David Minches.
- I have repaired several small dropouts in "The Music Never Stopped" as well.

Thanks to Tim for this source and Charlie for doing the transfer.

edited and mastered
SIRMick
December 2019

SOURCE 2 OF 9

2:55:31

SBD

Rating:

6.00 / 2 ratings

Transferrer:

Charlie Miller and SIRMick

SHNID:

gd1978-04-10.140836.sbd.miller.sirmick.flac1644

Source:

Source: sbd > master reel > pcm; Transfer: Sony SL-10 > Sony PCM-601ESD > Behringer Ultramatch Pro > Tascam DA-3000 > wav 16/44.1; Lineage: wav > Adobe Audition 1.5 > iZotope RX 6 Advanced > iZotope Ozone 5 Advanced > CD Wave > TLH > Flac 16; edited and mastered SIRMickJanuary 2018

Taper Notes:

View NotesNotes:

 - D C Offset removed.
- There were dozens of small dropouts, most less than one second, which have occured because of the age of the tape. They have been patched with shnid 108665 - Thank you Charlie.
- There were also two larger problems, these are cuts that are present on all circulating soundboards.  There is  a cut in "The Music Never Stopped" with about 12 seconds missing and the other is in "Franklin's Tower" with approximately 23 seconds missing.  These has been patched with shnid 81262 - Thank you Alan Zimmerman and David Minches.


Thanks to Charlie Miller for providing this source and doing the transfer.


edited and mastered
SITRMick
January 2018

SOURCE 3 OF 9

gd1978-04-10.sbd.miller.108665.flac16

Source:

SBD -> Master Reel -> PCM -> Dat (44.1k)

Lineage:

Dat (Sony R500) -> Sound Devices 744T-> Samplitude Professional v11.1 -> FLAC

Taper Notes:

View NotesNotes:
-- All disc changes are seamless
-- This transfer was done with much better gear than my previous transfer
-- Thanks to Bill Reutelhuber for his help with this project
-- Thanks to David Minches for the patch source

SOURCE 4 OF 9

PCM Source & Transfer by Anonymous Edited & Mastered by Joe Noel May 16, 2020

SHNID:

gd1978-04-10.150608.BettyBoard.Anon.Noel.t-flac16

Source:

Betty Cantor's Master SBD Reel > PCM > DAT

Lineage:

DAT > Sony PCMR500 (SPDIF out) > VX Pocket > Nuendo (SPDIF in) > Soundforge 5 > WAV 16/44

Taper Notes:

View NotesPatch info:
- shnid 81262 (Senn421 or 441's) supplies
- s1t10; all (crowd/tuning only)
- s1t11; 00:00 - 00:06
- s1t14; 05:17 - end
- s1t15; start - 01:21 (crowd/banter only)
- s1t17; 08:35 - 08:59
- s2t03; 07:35 - end (crowd only)
- s2t06; 02:30 - 03:01

Notes:
- Thanks to anonymous for the transfer & sharing this source while hiding out away from the bay area.
- Thanks to Alan Zimmerman and David Minches for the patch source.
- emphasis off & dc offset removed
- The patch work makes this source 100% complete & 3 minutes longer than all existing sources (El Paso & MNS are not missing small portions) plus the patch source is very good.

SOURCE 5 OF 9

gd78-04-10.sbd.miller.18098.sbeok.shnf

Source:

Soundboard

Lineage:

SBD -> Rm -> PCM -> Dat

Taper Notes:

View NotesSBD -> Rm -> PCM -> Dat via Charlie Miller

SOURCE 6 OF 9

gd1978-04-10.sbd.dodd.5259.shnf

Source:

Sbd > MR > PCM >Dat > cdr > Eac > wav > shn

Taper Notes:

View NotesDiscs from Paul B.
Eac > Shnv3 by Ernie Dodd

Notes:
slight glitch in Promised 3:52,
? second d/o at 4:22 of All Over Now,
splice at 9:03 of Music,
this is on all copies,
static at 5:02, 5:15 & 5:19 of U.S. Blues

SOURCE 7 OF 9

2:42:12

Taper:

concert recording by John Hicks & Dennis Fong

Transferrer:

Transferred by Andrew F. 01/2023

SHNID:

gd1978-04-10.163314.aud.flac2448

Lineage:

Maxell XLII > Nakamichi CR-5A > Edirol FA-66 > WAV 2448 > Wavelab > CD-Wave (24bit output) > TLH > FLAC 2448 tagged.

Taper Notes:

View NotesNotes:
- The tapes are noticeably worse-for-wear with some rough passages, still listenable though.
- Tape damaged areas blended to mono; start of All Over Now and start of Cassidy.
- Upsampled patches from ID-81262 were added as follow...
- All Over Now last 15 seconds, Dire Wolf entire track, El Paso first 12 seconds, Dancin first 12 seconds, and 26 seconds near end of Drums.

SOURCE 8 OF 9

gd1978-04-10.senn421.zimmerman.minches.81262.sbeok.flac16

Source:

2 Sennheiser 421s (or 441s) + Sony 54P> passed through Nakamichi 550> Teac PC-10 (Maxell UD XLII-90s)

Lineage:

Master played back on Nakamichi Dragon > ART DI/O > Digital Audio Labs Card Deluxe soundcard > Cool Edit 2000 > flac encoding > FLAC

Taper Notes:

View Notes* Patches supplied by SB>MR>PCM>DAT>CD

This is an excellent audience recording.  There are a couple anomalies caused by the 3 mic setup feeding the Nak 550.  According to Alan, they ran the levels a little too high causing the Nak to shut down temporarily at points during the show.  The most significant is during the end of Franklin's tower causing the need for the patch.  (I normally do not patch auds with SBs but this occurred at too crucial a point in the song to have a cut.) The same issue I believed resulting in most of the encore not being recorded.  There are several other unnoted drops in signal which were likely caused by the same issue.

SOURCE 9 OF 9

gd1978-04-10.bbd.15782.shnf

Source:

Jace's source tape: MR>P1>D1

Lineage:

7" two track BBD reel @ 7 1/2 ips > PCM501ES @ 44.055 kHz PCM501ES analog out > Fostex D5 @ 48 kHz

Taper Notes:

View NotesWhat I have here are two Betty Boards from the Fox Theatre Atlanta 10th 
and 11th April 1978. These are not "official" WBOTB masters
and sound to me like there is an extra analog generation, but they 
give a pretty good impression of what the residents of Atlanta 
enjoyed all those years ago. 

There is talk of the dedicated folks at Betty Plaza producing a 
cleaned up set at some stage in the future, but I believe these are 
the best we have until then. Show details are at the end of this 
mail.

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