Grateful Dead - April 23, 1969
The Ark - Boston, MA

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

Transfer Info:
CD -> Samplitude Professional v9.12 -> FLAC
(3 Discs Audio / 2 Discs FLAC)

All Transfers and Mastering By Charlie Miller
[email protected]
November 14, 2007

patched, fixed, and re-mastered by Monte Barry
www.DesignsByMonte.com
May 4, 2009

-- Tape flip during The Eleven
-- Tape flip between Caution and Feedback

Set 1:
d1t01 - Introduction
d1t02 - He Was A Friend Of Mine
d1t03 - Dark Star ->
d1t04 - St. Stephen ->
d1t05 - It's A Sin ->
d1t06 - St. Stephen ->
d1t07 - Cryptical Envelopment ->
d1t08 - Drums ->
d1t09 - The Other One ->
d1t10 - Cryptical Envelopment ->
d1t11 - Sittin' On Top Of The World ->
d1t12 - Turn On Your Lovelight

Set 2:
d2t01 - Morning Dew
d2t02 - Hard To Handle
d2t03 - Doin' That Rag
d2t04 - Alligator ->
d2t05 - Drums ->
d2t06 - Jam ->
d2t07 - The Eleven ->
d2t08 - Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks) ->
d2t09 - Feedback ->
d2t10 - And We Bid You Good Night

Encore:
d3t01 - Not Fade Away tease
d3t02 - It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

processed and edited in Samplitude by Monte

processing --
-- normalized new source levels to match old source levels
-- switched channels on new source to match old source
-- down-converted & down-sampled new source to 44.1 Khz / 16-bit

tracking & editing -- both sources
-- re-assembled each source back together - d1t04, d1t05, d1t06
-- edited the patches using X-fades
-- re-tracked d1t04, d1t05, d1t06

d1t04 St Stephen patched w/ new source 01:33 - 02:41 (end) - new track length is 02:41
d1t05 It's a Sin patched w/ new source 00:00 - 01:54 - new track length is 03:55
d1t06 St Stephen becomes 2:13 - new tracking creates track length 00:01 longer

file conversions using TLH
TLH insisted on fixing all the tracks for SBEs
entire fileset now becomes a new source and fresh transfer
checksums and torrent created using TLH

New Source -- seeded at Lossless Legs -- 02 May 2009
http://www.shnflac.net/details.php?id=4ab9ec37cefc0c037846d482868802f746fdd7fa

gen 1 cassette> tascam mkII>Korg MR1000 at 1bit/5.6mHZ>Korg Audio Gate Software>32 bit float/192kHz>Wavelab 6.1 for fades, blank tape removal, and slight channel adjustment>Weiss-Saracon for 24 bit fixed/192kHz Pow-r3 Dither

"I was out doing yardsales recently.  I had the SYF hat on and was looking for some fans for the hot Tucson summer.  Got to talking with this one fella and the GD came up.  He said to me after hearing about LL that he had some tapes.  I asked him if he knew where they came from.  He said "I cant tell ya man".  I thot he meant that he " didnt know cant tell" but out he walked with a lil treasure chest of some cassettes. The cases werent pretty but the tapes were high end pro tapes.  I asked him again where he got them and again he said "I cant tell you" but it seems your folks in the trading world might like them  Well, i got home and found too many treasure to note.  He told me they werent always on the best dubbing deck and some had been played and were at least 25 years old (some older) but he was sure that these versions were recorded by what he termed a "dear old buddy" and official channels and he had them for years and years and would like some of them to see the light of day.  More to come."

Old Source
gd69-04-23.sbd.miller.88501.sbeok.flac16