"Bertha Remaster Series"

Grateful Dead  
2-17-1973
St. Paul Auditorium  
St. Paul MN

Bertha Remaster of multi-signature source (shn id 32580)

(*)SBD > MR > PCM > DAT > CDA > WAV > DAW(Bertha) > Audio DVD > DVD Audio Extractor v.3.3.2 (audio files extracted prior to burning to DVD disc) > 24/48 wav > downsampled to 44.1 wav with Wave Lab v.5.00a > dithered from 24 to 16 bit depth with Wave Lab UV22 HR Plugin > SBEs fixed with shntool v.2.0.3 (by set) > FLAC encoding with FLAC Frontend v.1.7.1 Etree Edition, FLAC v.1.1.2 (level 8)
(3 discs audio, 2 discs flac)

Set 1
d1t01 The Promised Land
d1t02 He's Gone
d1t03 Looks Like Rain
d1t04 Box Of Rain
d1t05 Wave That Flag
d1t06 Mexicali Blues
d1t07 Bird Song
d1t08 Beer Barrel Polka
d1t09 Beat It On Down The Line
d1t10 Crowd/Equipment Repair
d1t11 Loose Lucy
d1t12 Me And Bobby McGee
d2t01 Stella Blue//
d2t02 El Paso
d2t03 They Love Each Other
d2t04 Playing In The Band

Set 2
d2t05 //Truckin'
d2t06 Row Jimmy
d2t07 Big River
d2t08 //You Ain't Woman Enough
d2t09 Here Comes Sunshine >>
d2t10 China Cat Sunflower >>
d2t11 I Know You Rider
d3t01 Around And Around
d3t02 Not Fade Away >>
d3t03 Goin' Down The Road//Feeling Bad >>
d3t04 Not Fade Away
d3t05 One More Saturday Night
d3t06 Crowd/Tuning

Encore
d3t07 Casey Jones

Notes:

Digitally Remastered by jashley@deadacated.com.  Completed March 7, 2006.

There are three distinct signatures in the sources used in the original source.  Each can be seen clearly in spectral analysis.  A 16khz spike can be seen in two of them, one having a lower B/W of approximately 10khz, and the other have a B/W of appoximately 16khz. The third has the same 16khz B/W but without the 16khz spike.  The 16khz spike is, likely, due to CRT Horizontal EMI during the recording process.  Each of the three signatures display a different sonic quality, the best being signature #1.

Signature #1(16khz B/W No 16khz Spike): Promised Land through Mexicali Blues & El Paso through You Ain't Woman Enough
Signature #2(10khz B/W With 16khz Spike): Bird Song through Stella Blue
Signature #3(16khz B/W With 16khz Spike): Here Comes Sunshine through Casey Jones

All three singatures were cleaned and processed separately due to the different sonic qualities, and the "Bertha Process" was not applied to signature #2 due to a beating noise caused during processing.

All defects from the original remain, including any cuts and drop outs.
Enjoy!
jay

Audio extraction through .flac compression performed by Gary Field 03/21/2006.

From the original text file, prior to Bertha Remastering:

Recording Info:
SBD -> Master Reel -> PCM -> Dat -> CD

Transfer Info:
CD -> Samplitude Professional v7.02 -> FLAC

Original Transfers and Mastering By Charlie Miller

(*)Patch Info:
The following songs are patched from SBD->?->Cassette->CD
Bird Song, BIODTL, Loose Lucy, Me And Bobby McGee & Stella Blue

Some pops and level problems fixed with Cool Edit Pro v2.0