Grateful Dead
1989-05-07
Sunday
Frost Amphitheater
Stanford University
Palo Alto, CA

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*********** 24 Bit version NOT intended to burn direct to CD *********

Recorded and Mastered by ArchivalAudio [Ian Stoy]
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Master Audience cassette:

Toa K1’s spaced about 30” (Pointed At The Stacks) + Sennheiser 416’s  (or Sennheiser MKH-415T?) > Sony MX-12 (mixer) >  Sony WM-D6c
media: Denon HD8  (metal partial-high bias)  90 for first set and 100 for second set. Dolby C on

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Mastering:
Tascam  302  Dolby C on > ArchivalAudio silver-gold RCA>1/4” TS > Zoom F8 at 24/48
Transcend  600x SDHD class10 U1 128gb
Transcend usb 3 card reader > MacMini  3 GHz i7/16GB DDDR3
Audacity: Fades/Tracking  normalize to -1.0db  remove DC offset > flac24
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+Ozone 5: Dynamics + Maximizer   normalize to -.5db  remove DC offset > flac24

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An ArchivalAudio Production 4/2017 to 2/2018

First shared at Lossless Legs www.shnflac.net


Grateful Dead • 1989-05-07 • Sunday • Frost Amphitheater •  Stanford University • Palo Alto, CA


Set 1:
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Crowd and tuning
Iko Iko
Little Red Rooster
Bertha
Me And My Uncle >
Mexicali Blues
Built To Last
[tape flip]  no music lost
Picasso Moon
Bird Song

Set 2:
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Foolish Heart
Victim Or The Crime
Crazy Fingers >
Man Smart-Woman Smarter >
He's Gone > Spoonful Jam
Drums >
[tape flip]  a few seconds of drums before Mickey plays the bar is missing crossfaded
Space  >
The Other One
Black Peter >
Turn On Your Love Light

Encore:
Teddy Bear’s Picnic (midi tuning) >
Knockin' On Heaven's Door


Rex Foundation Benefit
Billy Kreutzmann's 43rd Birthday



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Notes:
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Really nice Birdsong set 1 closer.

Not one of my favorite or best recordings that I have done, however since not many other Audience recordings circulate, here this is. My recordings of the year before  in 1988 were much better and only the Toa K1’s. I used a Sony MX-12 mixer, apparently grey market in the USA, That I found at the Rose Bowl flea market. The MX-12 is powered by 6 D cells and has only either 1/4” TS or RCA inputs for 6 channel mixer with 2 vu meters. This was a 4 mic mix Toa k1’s on wide bar spaced at 30” and the Sennheiser 416 t (I think) short shotguns into the mixer, mixed on the fly.  The 416’s were borrowed from an unnamed art college that I used to attend by an old friend, it’s possible it was a pair of 415’s at some earlier shows I tried the 816 but liked the shorter 416/415’s better. Mic’s on same stand in the OTS just behind the board at one of my favorite outdoor venues. The Frost is so amazing and the sound was very full of fun. It was a windy day but you could see the wind sailing in the eucalyptus trees that surrounding the Amphitheater, at times this cause phasing and the music to swirl as well.  I think the mix was more of the 416’s then the Toa K1’s which I think lost out on the low end and some of the openness but it doesn’t sound that bad. I think we were a level up and slightly on Phil’s side at the back corner of the house mix position, though its hard to remember exactly where we were. I didn’t always take notes, sometimes I did other times I didn’t and always thought I’d remember but now all these years later, it can be challenging.


No other processing or eq’ing


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