Grateful Dead

The Music Box

Omaha, NE

April 15, 1969



AUDMR->Alesis Masterlink 9600->HD->CD;
tracking and editing in SoundEdit 16 for Macintosh platform
by
Bob Bihlmayer ([email protected]) 11/5-6/2005:

CD->EAC->SoundEdit 16->FLAC



Taper: Leon Komar


Equipment: portable Aiwa 5" reel-to-reel, stock Aiwa hand-held microphone;
"Automatic Volume Control" (compressor/limiter?) switch ON.
Tape: Audiotape, Formula 10, 1/2 mil "T" Mylar, 3 3/4 ips, 2-track mono.
Real-time transfer, no edits; EQ flat; no boosts/filters applied.

source discs and equipment information provided by Iver McLeod.



CD1:

1. Hard to Handle 5:28

2. Beat It On Down The Line 2:49  

3. Morning Dew 10:10

4. /It Hurts Me Too 5:26

5. /China Cat Sunflower-> 5:25  

6. Doin' That Rag 6:53

7. It's A Sin 4:43

8. /Lovelight (cut @ 16:00) 27:34


total time: 68:29



CD2:

1. /Sitting On Top of the World 2:44

2. Cryptical Envelopment-> 1:56

3. The Other One-> 7:55

4. Cryptical Reprise-> 11:10

5. Dark Star-> 20:21

6. St. Stephen-> 5:30

7. The Eleven/ (cut @ 0:34) 3:31


total time: 53:19



the cuts at the beginnings of tracks omit only a few notes; the taper was
pleasantly quick on the "Start" button.  the cut in "Lovelight" appears
minimal.  the cut in "The Eleven" is substantial, with a segment from the
third line of the "William Tell Bridge" (tracked with "The Eleven") to the
transition to the second (11/8, key of "A") theme missing; as much as three
to four minutes could be missing here. The end of "The Eleven" fades out;
this fade was present on the source discs.  the entire segments from d1t5-d1t7 and d2t1-the cut at 0:34 of "The Eleven" are contiguous, with no start/stops of the recorder.

the edits to the "fixed" version are confined to removal of tape start/stop pops between tracks and/or at tape edits; no music or audience noise was removed.





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FLAC fingerprints:




"Original/retracked" version:


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