Grateful Dead
Sphinx Theatre
Giza, Egypt
September 15, 1978

DTS-Audio-CD 5.1 Mix)

Set One:
d1t01 - Introduction
d1t02 - Hamza el Din set
d1t03 - Ollin Arrageed ->
d1t04 - Promised Land
d1t05 - Friend Of The Devil
d1t06 - Mama Tried ->
d1t07 - Big River
d1t08 - Loser
d1t09 - I Need A Miracle
d2t01 - Stagger Lee

Set Two:
d2t02 - Jack Straw
d2t03 - Ship Of Fools
d2t04 - Estimated Prophet ->
d2t05 - Eyes Of The World ->
d2t06 - Drums ->
d3t01 - Drums (with friends)->
d3t02 - Space ->
d3t03 - Terrapin Station ->
d3t04 - Sugar Magnolia

Audio Source Information
SBD (shnid=87782)
Recording Info:
Set One: SBD -> Master Reel -> Cassette -> Dat (48k)
Set Two: SBD -> Master Reel -> PCM -> Dat (44.1k)

Transfer Info:
Dat (Sony R500) -> Samplitude Professional v9.11 -> FLAC
(3 Discs Audio / 2 Discs FLAC)

All Transfers and Mastering By Charlie Miller
[email protected]
October 20, 2007

Patch Info:
(FOB/1st Row) Sony ECM280 -> Cassette Master -> CD (shnid=4160) supplies:
Drums (4:01 - 10:41)

Notes:
-- Mastered on 10 inch reels recorded at 15ips 1/2 track

AUD (shnid=4160)
Source:  Aud FOB, front row LFC, Sony ECM280 > Sony TC-153 cassette recorder
Transfer:  Master FOB Cassettes > Yamaha KXW9527 > Apogee AD1000 >
Delta DiO 2496 > Samplitude 2496 > CDWAV > SHNv3
Transferred and seeded by John [email protected] http://sativa.etree.org
Special thanks to "The Face" and friends who taped the show in '78(~);-}

Note:  The mics were hidden behind a cotton headpiece for most of the show.  Levels may be muffled in certain
places, and are not an artifact of the transfer.  This is a real gem with the

* Hamza El-Din
$ Jackstraw source is not from the FOB source, its from a taper further back, unknown mics
%The right channel dropped out on the masters, and the source becomes mono for the last 3 minutes before the flip
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Tech Notes

SHNs\FLACs were decoded to wave and Audition 3.0 was used to reassemble the tracks back to 1 long wave.  Audition 3.0 was used to align & synch the SBD & AUD sources.  Audition 3.0 used to adjust the volume for AUDs, matrix/CTR and LFE channels.  Surcode DVD Pro DTS was used to encode to DTS.
- Mixed by [email protected]
- FLAC conversion 02-DEC-2007  
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Audio Patches:

1) Before Ollin Arrageed, 23 minute and 52.960 seconds were missing from the audience source and was filled in with audio from the soundboard source. This portion of the audio was normalized to blend in better.

2) Between Friend of the Devil and Mama Tried, 13.538 seconds were missing from the audience source and was filled in with audio from the soundboard source. This portion of the audio was normalized to blend in better.

3) Both Mama Tried and Big River were from another audience source but included as part of shnid 4160. There is a distinctly different sound than the FOB source.

4) Between Big River and Loser, 14.219 seconds were missing from the audience source and was filled in with audio from the soundboard source. This portion of the audio was normalized to blend in better.

5) Also between Big River and Loser, 47.212 seconds were missing from the soundboard source and was filled in with audio from the audience source. This portion of the audio was normalized to blend in better.

6) Between Loser and Stagger Lee, 1 minute and 26.015 seconds were missing from the soundboard source and was filled in with audio from the audience source. This portion of the audio was normalized to blend in better. This ended disk 1.

7) Jack Straw was from another audience source but included as part of shnid 4160. There is a distinctly different sound than the FOB source. As the sbd had almost no vocals, I did the best I could to mix them in with the not quite as good audience.

8) Between Jack Straw and Ship Of Fools, 21.620 seconds were missing from the audience source and was filled in with audio from the soundboard source. This portion of the audio was normalized to blend in better.

9) At the beginning of Space, 12.552 seconds were missing from the audience source and was filled in with audio from the soundboard source. This portion of the audio was normalized to blend in better.

Set 1 of the Audience ran about 2% fast compared to the Soundboard (2 seconds fast per minute). Set 2 was much closer at 0.3%.
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DTS-Audio-CD Info

Front  
Left Channel SBD  -0db
Right Channel SBD -0db

Center
Mixed to mono -2db SBD

Surround
Left Channel -2db AUD
Right Channel -2db AUD

Sub/LFE
Mixed to mono -2db SBD
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More On DTS

Today's audio standards are moving towards multi-channel
sound, like DTS and Dolby Digital. While the Audio-CD
standard (Red Book) hasn't changed to accommodate these
new sound formats, it is still possible to go around the
specification and to put a 5.1 surround recording on a
regular Audio-CD. To play a DTS-Audio-CD you must connect
your DVD/CD player via a digital cable (optical or coaxial)
to your DTS Dolby-Digital receiver. It is not 100% sure
that your receiver will recognize a DTS-Audio CD, so the
first time you're trying to playback a DTS-Audio-CD you
must do a test to determine if it can. Begin with the
volume very low, start the disc and raise the volume
gradually. NEVER listen to a DTS-Audio-CD through the
analog audio outputs of your CD/DVD player.

Burning Instructions

Burn them the absolute same way as you would burn any
normal Audio-CD from FLAC files.

Brokedown House Production

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    14:12.31      150365756    ---   --   -----   gd1978-09-15d1t02.wav
    17:52.67      189258428    ---   --   -----   gd1978-09-15d1t03.wav
     5:05.01       53804396    ---   --   -----   gd1978-09-15d1t04.wav
     9:20.06       98798156    ---   --   -----   gd1978-09-15d1t05.wav
     2:40.58       28360460    ---   --   -----   gd1978-09-15d1t06.wav
     7:58.73       84490940    ---   --   -----   gd1978-09-15d1t07.wav
     9:33.04      101086652    ---   --   -----   gd1978-09-15d1t08.wav
     7:47.60       82519964    ---   --   -----   gd1978-09-15d1t09.wav
     6:52.28       72742700    ---   --   -----   gd1978-09-15d2t01.wav
     8:35.24       90902492    ---   --   -----   gd1978-09-15d2t02.wav
     9:19.30       98678204    ---   --   -----   gd1978-09-15d2t03.wav
    11:56.27      126365948    ---   --   -----   gd1978-09-15d2t04.wav
    13:15.31      140310956    ---   --   -----   gd1978-09-15d2t05.wav
     3:59.51       42279596    ---   --   -----   gd1978-09-15d2t06.wav
     9:00.17       95296028    ---   --   -----   gd1978-09-15d3t01.wav
     4:47.21       50676236    ---   --   -----   gd1978-09-15d3t02.wav
    11:21.31      120201356    ---   --   -----   gd1978-09-15d3t03.wav
    10:35.17      112054028    ---   --   -----   gd1978-09-15d3t04.wav
   165:44.66     1754277668 B                     (totals for 19 files, 1.0000 overall compression ratio)