Bird Song | 1971-02-24 | Grateful Dead

View NotesNotes:
- Thanks to Charlie Miller for the source PCM
- Thanks to Charlie Miller for the transfer
- Beginning of "Casey Jones" clipped
- Reel flip at the beginning of "Not Fade Away" has been smoothed in much the same way as the WBOTB release - the noodle into "Not Fade Away" is incomplete, impossible to say how much is missing, most likely less than a minute
- "Just write out your requests on $1000 dollar bills and pass 'em up to the front like good boys, we'll be glad to honor them "

Mastered by Scott Clugston
January 25, 2018

Set I:
01  //Casey Jones
02  Me And My Uncle
03  Cumberland Blues
04  Next Time You See Me
05  Bird Song
06  Me And Bobby McGee
07  Bertha
08  Hard To Handle
09  Loser
10  Playing In The Band
11  Good Lovin' >
    Drums >
    Good Lovin'

Transferrer: Charlie Miller

2:52:13

SBD

gd1971-02-24.121065.sbd.miller.digitalrbb.flac16

Source:

SBD -> Master Reel -> CD

Lineage:

CD -> Samplitude Professional v10.02 -> FLAC

Taper Notes:

View NotesNotes:
-- All disc changes are seamless
-- Master Reel transferred to CD at the Mastering Plant in L.A.

Taper: Original WBOTB DATs procured & circulated in 1996 by Jace Crouch and Tim Deibert. Thanks to trailmix for providing the lineaged master DAT for transfer.

Original WBOTB DATs procured & circulated in 1996 by Jace Crouch and Tim Deibert. Thanks to trailmix for providing the lineaged master DAT for transfer.

Transferrer:

Transfer and mastering by Chris Ladner.

SHNID:

gd1971-02-24.sbd.cantor-crouch-diebert-gmb.87570.sbeok.flac16

Source:

7" two track BBD reel w/ Dolby A @ 7 1/2 ips > PCM501ES (beta) > PCM501ES analog out > Dolby A decoder > Apogee filter > analog in PCMF1/PCM501ES analog out > Fostex D5 @ 48 kHz > WBOTB Master DAT (DAT-1).

Lineage:

Jace's DAT (48 KHz) playback on Sony PCM-R500, AES digital output > Benchmark DAC1, XLR analog output > Grace Lunatec V3, sample rate at 96 KHz, AES digiout) > AES digital input, professional mode/sync - LynxTwo soundcard in E6400 dual core processor-based PC > HD as 24 bit/96 KHz WAV > Ozone 3.0 > MBIT+ dithering to 16/44.1 KHz WAV > CDWAV 1.9 (tracking) > FLAC (level 8). Recording, editing and mastering with Wavelab 5.0. All cables were Mogami Gold 0.3m pro-audio XLR cables. All components in the transfer/mastering chain were powered from a Cyberpower 1285AVR noise-attenuated uninterruptible AC power supply.

Taper Notes:

View Notes- First note of "Casey Jones" clipped.

Transferrer: Leigh Orf and Bob Clevenger

Leigh Orf and Bob Clevenger

SHNID:

gd1971-02-24.sbd.clevenger.6190.sbefail.shnf

Source:

SBD -> Dolby A Reel -> Dolby A decode -> DAT -> Sound Forge NR -> CD-R

Taper Notes:

View NotesThe Sound Forge noise reduction was used to attenuate a very
narrow frequency band (in the vicinity of 8000 Hz) which
was present as interference on the original reels.  See
http://members.home.net/orf/notch.html for details.

Remastered by Leigh Orf 


The short story:

1) I removed the whine (~8000 kHz tone at about +25 dB) from this show
that was present with the source reels using Sonic Foundry's Noise
Reduction algorithm, as I did with the earlier uploaded Port Chester
shows (2/18 and 2/21). For an explanation of the noise and how I removed
it, see http://members.home.net/orf/notch.html

2) There are a couple of very minor dropouts/glitches which I have
cleaned up as well as I can. These occurred when the DAT tape was
"ripped" to disk.

3) This show is as good as you're gonna get as far as I know because of
the NR and the excellent remastering from the originnal reels!

4) I've kept in all the intersong tuning/whatever. I figure others can
edit them down if the wish. I like having it there, sometimes funny
things are said and done :) plus you can always just hit FFWD on your CD
player remote to get to the next song!

The long story with regards to 2) above:

The DAT tape, a clone from the "whatever became of the bettys" tree a
while back, was borrowed and was read in on an old SGI indigo which has
firmware which can read DAT audio tapes and dump them to 48 kHz AIFF
files. Alas, I do not own a DAT machine and digital sound card, but I am
saving my money! Anyhow, the error correction on the SGI DAT drive was
pretty crappy, and there were a few dropouts/glitches on the read which
lasted anywhere from less than 1/75 s to a second or two.

I have at my behest a professional quality DAT machine at a community
radio station I volunteer for (WORT) and brought my home tape deck in
which is a Harmon Kardon TD 4600, one of the earlier Dolby S decks (WORT
does not have a computer with a digital sound card). It is a very good
deck for analogue. The DAT deck at WORT was able to handle *almost*
all of the bad spots that were not handled well by the SGI. I made a
dobly S copy of the bad spots, and pasted over (using an analogue AWE64
Soundblaster to go A->D) the glitches/droputs on the SGI read using
Sound Forge. The result is as good as i could do. You won't even hear
most of the original glitches, and the ones that remain were due to bad
spots on the DAT, that the WORT deck was unable to handle. Bear in mind
that the total amount I had to paste over represent a total of about
15 seconds across the entire show, and I was able to 'fix' 99% of them
completely. There are one or two dropouts/bad reads that are very short
(mostly in Casey Jones which Betty fucked up anyway ;)

For the curious I left about 1 second of the original noise that I
filtered out. It's at the very very end of track 1 on disk 2 after the
crowd noise fades.

Leigh Orf 

Transferrer: Lee Orf;retracked by Bob Clevenger

Lee Orf;retracked by Bob Clevenger

SHNID:

gd1971-02-24.sbd.clevenger.6189.sbefail.shnf

Source:

SBD -> Dolby A Reel -> Dolby A decode -> DAT -> Sound Forge NR -> CD-R

Taper Notes:

View NotesThe short story:

1) I removed the whine (~8000 kHz tone at about +25 dB) from this show
that was present with the source reels using Sonic Foundry's Noise
Reduction algorithm, as I did with the earlier uploaded Port Chester
shows (2/18 and 2/21). For an explanation of the noise and how I removed
it, see http://members.home.net/orf/notch.html

2) There are a couple of very minor dropouts/glitches which I have
cleaned up as well as I can. These occurred when the DAT tape was
"ripped" to disk.

3) This show is as good as you're gonna get as far as I know because of
the NR and the excellent remastering from the originnal reels!

4) I've kept in all the intersong tuning/whatever. I figure others can
edit them down if the wish. I like having it there, sometimes funny
things are said and done :) plus you can always just hit FFWD on your CD
player remote to get to the next song!

The long story with regards to 2) above:

The DAT tape, a clone from the "whatever became of the bettys" tree a
while back, was borrowed and was read in on an old SGI indigo which has
firmware which can read DAT audio tapes and dump them to 48 kHz AIFF
files. Alas, I do not own a DAT machine and digital sound card, but I am
saving my money! Anyhow, the error correction on the SGI DAT drive was
pretty crappy, and there were a few dropouts/glitches on the read which
lasted anywhere from less than 1/75 s to a second or two.

I have at my behest a professional quality DAT machine at a community
radio station I volunteer for (WORT) and brought my home tape deck in
which is a Harmon Kardon TD 4600, one of the earlier Dolby S decks (WORT
does not have a computer with a digital sound card). It is a very good
deck for analogue. The DAT deck at WORT was able to handle *almost*
all of the bad spots that were not handled well by the SGI. I made a
dobly S copy of the bad spots, and pasted over (using an analogue AWE64
Soundblaster to go A->D) the glitches/droputs on the SGI read using
Sound Forge. The result is as good as i could do. You won't even hear
most of the original glitches, and the ones that remain were due to bad
spots on the DAT, that the WORT deck was unable to handle. Bear in mind
that the total amount I had to paste over represent a total of about
15 seconds across the entire show, and I was able to 'fix' 99% of them
completely. There are one or two dropouts/bad reads that are very short
(mostly in Casey Jones which Betty fucked up anyway ;)

For the curious I left about 1 second of the original noise that I
filtered out. It's at the very very end of track 1 on disk 2 after the
crowd noise fades.

Leigh Orf 

*************************

Further note:
I retracked this show so that it fits each set onto one CDR.
I don't believe any changes were made to the shn's but the MD5's are new.

Bob Clevenger
bob@santhemermaid.com

Transferrer: Leigh Orf

gd71-02-24.sbd.orf.114.sbeok.shnf

Source:

Soundboard

Taper Notes:

View Notesvia Leigh Orf; <a href="http://www.oakland.edu/~crouch/wbotb.htm" rel="nofollow">WBOTB</a> source > distortion removed digitally (see <a href="http://orf.cx/notch.html" rel="nofollow">notes</a>)

The short story:

1) I removed the whine (~8000 kHz tone at about +25 dB) from this show that was present with the source reels using Sonic Foundry's Noise Reduction algorithm, as I did with the earlier uploaded Port Chester shows (2/18 and 2/21). For an explanation of the noise and how I removed it, see http://www.mailbag.com/users/orf/notch.html

2) There are a couple of very minor dropouts/glitches which I have cleaned up as well as I can. These occurred when the DAT tape was "ripped" to disk.

3) This show is as good as you're gonna get as far as I know because of the NR and the excellent remastering from the orinal reels!

4) I've kept in all the intersong tuning/whatever. I figure others can edit them down if the wish. I like having it there, sometimes funny things are said and done :) plus you can always just hit FFWD on your CD player remote to get to the next song!

The long story with regards to 2) above:

The DAT tape, a clone from the "whatever became of the bettys" tree a while back, was borrowed and was read in on an old SGI indigo which has firmware which can read DAT audio tapes and dump them to 48 kHz AIFF files. Alas, I do not own a DAT machine and digital sound card, but I am saving my money! Anyhow, the error correction on the SGI DAT drive was pretty crappy, and there were a few dropouts/glitches on the read which lasted anywhere from less than 1/75 s to a second or two.

I have at my behest a professional quality DAT machine at a community radio station I volunteer for (WORT) and brought my home tape deck in which is a Harmon Kardon TD 4600, one of the earlier Dolby S decks (WORT does not have a computer with a digital sound card). It is a very good deck for analogue. The DAT deck at WORT was able to handle *almost* all of the bad spots that were not handled well by the SGI. I made a dobly S copy of the bad spots, and pasted over (using an analogue AWE64 Soundblaster to go A->D) the glitches/droputs on the SGI read using Sound Forge. The result is as good as i could do. You won't even hear most of the original glitches, and the ones that remain were due to bad spots on the DAT, that the WORT deck was unable to handle. Bear in mind that the total amount I had to paste over represent a total of about 15 seconds across the entire show, and I was able to 'fix' 99% of them completely. There are one or two dropouts/bad reads that are very short (mostly in Casey Jones which Betty fucked up anyway ;)

For the curious I left about 1 second of the original noise that I filtered out. It's at the very very end of track 1 on disk 2 after the crowd noise fades.

Taper: Marty Weinberg? From the collection of Doug Lamarre

1:17:54

Taper:

Marty Weinberg? From the collection of Doug Lamarre

Transferrer:

Matt Vernon, SirMick

SHNID:

gd1971-02-24.162395.akgd1909e.weinberg.lamarre.vernon.sirmick.flac24

Lineage:

Cassette > Nak CR-7A #1 (azimuth adjusted, Dolby B) > Tascam DA-3000 #2 (DSF 1-bit/5.6 Hz) > Tascam Hi Res Editor (DSF concatenate & 24/96 PCM) Lineage: Wav 24/96 > Adobe Audition 3 > iZotope RX 10 Advanced > iZotope Neutron 3 Advanced > CD Wave > flac24

Taper Notes:

View NotesComments:

- After they have played "Casey Jones" or it could be after "Me And My Uncle" somebody is trying to guess the next track.  Could it be Marty Weinberg? Same voice comments after Love Light.


Notes:

- This derives from the same source as shnid but we get 6 more songs from Set II.
- All tracks have been speed corrected and some wow and flutter has been repaired.
- The sounds varies, possibly it has been put together from tapes of different generations. I have tried to match it up as far as possible.
- There is about 1:38 missing with the cut in "Love Light." The parts have been crossfaded together.
- Most tracks are clipped at the start.


Thanks to Doiug Lamarre for this source.

Thanks to Matt Vernon for the transfer and facilitatings


edited and mastered
SIRMick
January 2023

Taper: Marty Weinberg? From the collection of Doug Lamarre

1:17:54

Taper:

Marty Weinberg? From the collection of Doug Lamarre

Transferrer:

Matt Vernon, SirMick

SHNID:

gd1971-02-24.162394.akgd1909e.weinberg.lamarre.vernon.sirmick.flac16

Lineage:

Taper Notes:

View NotesComments:

- After they have played "Casey Jones" or it could be after "Me And My Uncle" somebody is trying to guess the next track.  Could it be Marty Weinberg? Same voice comments after Love Light.


Notes:

- This derives from the same source as shnid but we get 6 more songs from Set II.
- All tracks have been speed corrected and some wow and flutter has been repaired.
- The sounds varies, possibly it has been put together from tapes of different generations. I have tried to match it up as far as possible.
- There is about 1:38 missing with the cut in "Love Light." The parts have been crossfaded together.
- Most tracks are clipped at the start.


Thanks to Doiug Lamarre for this source.

Thanks to Matt Vernon for the transfer and facilitatings


edited and mastered
SIRMick
January 2023

Taper: Marty Weinberg

Rob Berger, Michael Parish, Morgan Evans

SHNID:

gd1971-02-24.125171.Weinberg-parish-evans-berger.flac16

Source:

akg d190e > Uher 4000 5" open reel; reel master > Marantz CD-RW700; aud reel master, taped by Marty Weinberg, transfer by Michael Parish, seeded by Rob Berger

Taper Notes:

View Notesnotes: 	superb.