U.S. Blues | 1978-10-17 | Grateful Dead

View NotesComments:

- during "Space" you can hear Jerry, off stage, being asked if he still gives banjo lessons.

Notes:

- Garcia's vocals float in and out of the mix at the start of "Scarlet Begonias"
- Patches:

   Eyes Of The World 9:00-10:59
   U.S. Blues - last 3:08

Patch source: AKG D224e > Sony TC-158 taped by Reinhart Holwein (shnid 100687)
 
The patches have been eq'd so that they are a closer match.

- I also cleaned up some of the transitions

SOURCE 2 OF 11

2:36:12

SBD

Rating:

8.00 / 1 rating

Transferrer:

Matrix by Dave Usborne

SHNID:

gd1978-10-17.135503.mtx.dusborne.flac16

Source:

2 source matrix by Dusborne;Soundboard (Shnid:89257), Recording Info: SBD -> Master Reel -> Reel -> Dat (44.1k)Transfer Info:Dat (Sony R500) -> Sound Devices 744T -> Samplitude Professional v9.12 -> FLAC,All Transfers and Mastering By Charlie Miller;Audience (shnid:100692),Analog Audience Source: AUD Master Cassettes, Analog

Lineage:

2 x AKG D224e => Sony TC-158 >> MAC; Analog Sound Preservation: MAC >> Nakamichi CR-7a => Korg MR-1000 DSF >> Korg MR-1000 => Korg AudioGate >> WAV [24/96]Taped By: Reinhart Holwein,Transfer By: Bob Menke, Mastering By: Derek McCabe

Taper Notes:

View Notesagging notes:
Show information is embedded within the header of each flac file. 
It will display on any player capable of directly playing flac 
files. If converted to wav during processing, all tags will be 
stripped, however audio data will remain unaffected. 
If you must transcode to a lossy format, do so directly Flac > Lossy.
Use ffp to validate audio integrity.
Md5 values will change if tagging is altered.
Dave Usborne 04-14-2016

SOURCE 3 OF 11

gd1978-10-17.sbd.miller.89257.sbeok.flac16

Source:

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

Lineage:

Dat (Sony R500) -> Sound Devices 744T -> Samplitude Professional v9.12 -> FLAC

Taper Notes:

View NotesNotes:
-- Disc change is seamless
-- Many flaws cleaned up
-- Dat was labled SBD -> Master Reel -> PCM -> Dat which is wrong
-- Patch material supplied by Pat Lee and transferred by Matt Smith

SOURCE 4 OF 11

Bob Menke and Derek McCabe

SHNID:

gd1978-10-17.mtx.motb-0092.100703.flac24

Source:

Matrix mix (SBD/AUD)

Taper Notes:

View NotesMatrix: Aud 55% Sbd 45% The Sbd used for this is shn id 89257 from C. Miller.

This matrix release gratefully deadicated to the Matrix Whine & Cheese Club at LL. 
All mistakes, imperfections, glitches, misspellings, and/or sync issues are left in on purpose just to piss you off.

SOURCE 5 OF 11

Bob Menke and Derek McCabe

SHNID:

gd1978-10-17.mtx.motb-0092.100699.flac16

Source:

Matrix mix (SBD/AUD)

Taper Notes:

View NotesMatrix: Aud 55% Sbd 45% The Sbd used for this is shn id 89257 from C. Miller.

This matrix release gratefully deadicated to the Matrix Whine & Cheese Club at LL. 
All mistakes, imperfections, glitches, misspellings, and/or sync issues are left in on purpose just to piss you off.

SOURCE 6 OF 11

SBD>Master Reel>Cassette>DAT>WAV>FLAC>WAV>SHN

Taper Notes:

View NotesOne splice in Eyes
U.S. Blues cuts off missing approximately 45 seconds

SOURCE 7 OF 11

2:28:27

SBD

SHNID:

gd1978-10-17.sbd.nugs.21243.sbeok.flac16

Source:

SBD>Master Reel>Cassette>DAT>WAV

Taper Notes:

View NotesDespite some minor flaws, this is the best representation of what went
down at Winterland in October of 1978 (short of an official Vault
release which we can only hope for). All five shows come from
soundboard sources of varying degrees of quality. Some sets are
spliced together from various sources, with an audience patch at the
end of 10/21/78 Stella Blue. There are some cuts due to cassette
flips.

Special thanks to dug for the sources.

SOURCE 8 OF 11

SBD: Master Reel> PCM> DAT> CD> (EAC) WAV> SHN

Taper Notes:

View NotesSBD: Master Reel> PCM> DAT> CD> (EAC) WAV> SHN; EAC, tracking, shn and upload by Evan Levy; 
notes: one splice in Eyes, U.S. Blues cuts off missing ~45 seconds; see pub comments for additional notes

SOURCE 9 OF 11

gd1978-10-17.166109.aud.remaster.acetboy.flac1644

Source:

remaster of shn #100692 Reinhart Holwein aud recording by acetboy

Taper Notes:

View NotesThis is a remaster of shn #100692.
Thanks to the taper and the MOTB people and all who bring this stuff to share.
All of the work I do is in ocenaudio and Harrison Mixbus.
Everything I do is basically about levels.  Keeping them the same in both channels
throughout the frequency range.  When I speak of levels I mean RMS levels.  Average levels.
I also tighten up phase issues when needed. Clear up any gaps that may be found.
If original files are high res, I have done most of the work at the higher sample frequency
and bit depths.  Then towards the end I've converted to 44.1 16 bit.

About the screen grabs:

One can not see everything I do in these images but it shows something about
how the audio has changed between before and after.

If I'm working from high res files the before FFT and Spectral images look
quite a bit different inherently.

acetboy 2023-10-17

SOURCE 10 OF 11

Bob Menke and Derek McCabe

SHNID:

gd1978-10-17.fob.akgd224e.holwein.motb-0092.100692.flac24

Source:

2 x AKG D224e => Sony TC-158 >> MAC