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Ratdog   12/31/2001

Henry J Kaiser Auditorium, Oakland, CA
Source Nakamichi CM-300 microphones (with CP-4 shotgun capsules) >
Media shn   1 disc
Notes New Years's Eve (2001 - 2002)
December 30 & 31, 2001
Kaiser Auditorium
Oakland, California

Phil Lesh and Friends
- Phil Lesh
- John Molo
- Rob Barraco
- Warren Haynes
- Jimmy Herring
RatDog
- Bob Weir
- Rob Wasserman
- Jay Lane
- Jeff Chimenti
- Mark Karan
- Kenny Brooks
Derek Trucks Band
- Derek Trucks
- Javier Colon
- Kofi Burbridge
- Todd Smalley
- Sean O'Rourke
Crusader Rabbit Stealth Band
- Phil Lesh and Friends
- Bob Weir
- Bill Kreutzman
- Mickey Hart

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Recorded By Kevin Brockway
Nakamichi CM-300 microphones (with CP-4 shotgun capsules) >
Tascam DA-P1.

[15' Shure S-15A mic stand, fully extended.]

If you're interested, the stand was located in the center of the
taper's section, on the right edge next to the left side of the
center "aisle" that divided the section. It was lucky to make it
through both nights without being touched by a balloon.

Originally recorded at 48 KHz on [DDS tapes] DAT.

The same DA-P1 was used to play back the master tape
(within a week of the show) into the computer
(Pentium III 600MHz, 512MB RAM) via coax (Monster) cable
into the sound card (Creative Live! Platinum 5.1)
and is recorded to my hard drive using Cool Edit Pro,
which also did the sample rate conversion to 44.1 KHz.
Editing for CD (including fades) were added using Cool Edit Pro.

If you got a CD directly from me:
Feurio was used to assign tracks to the [single] wave file and burn the CDs.

SHN files:
CD-WAVE was used to break the wave file into separate (track) wave files,
and mkw Audio Compression Tool was used to compress to shorten.

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Taper's Notes:

The performance itself was top-notch, so I'm glad the tape came out well.

I humbly think that this is a great sounding recording, and is completely
worth a good listen. There are absolutely no "glitches" to endure
in the recording, and there is more than 12 hours of music.

There are, however, two "caveats" that should be included for the more
obsessive [like me] among us:

1) THE FIRST SET (Although I like the way it sounds...)
The first set of the first show [RatDog 12/30] was taped without any "pad",
but I didn't like the way the deck's level indicators behaved [due to the
shotgun capsules' extra-mighty ability to gather sound], so after that set
I switched on the Tascam's 20dB pad and all the rest of the sets were recorded
with the pad. I'm glad I did that because I like the final result much better.
Turning the pad on allows me to turn up the input levels and get a
livelier response from the Tascam. I think the character of the
sound improved, too. But you might never have known if I didn't say so. :-)

2) THE ONLY [fixed] "FLAW" (I truly doubt you'll ever hear where it was...)
I fixed it, so this recording you have is entirely without glitches, no worries.
But for those of you who read this far, you must be into this stuff, so:
In the Crusader Rabbit set, during "The Wheel", while they are singing,
my master DAT tape had a very slight (far less than a second) dropout.
it was powerfully annoying, but easily fixable by copying a similar
far less than a second from the next verse, while they are singing the same part
of the same word, and gently easing it into the little gap. You'll never notice.
I don't mind it at all, and I'm picky about that kind of stuff.

Anyway, I'm really happy with the results, so clear 12 hours on your schedule...

Kevin

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The ticket images were scanned by me; they were the tickets I used to get into the show.

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Tracks and Timings (for the Feurio version):
[Give and take a few seconds here and there for the Shorten version]

Ratdog 12/31/2001 [all one set]
CD 1 28:32
track01 04:19 jam >
track02 08:19 Feel Like a Stranger >
track03 11:35 Easy Answers >
track04 04:17 Youngblood

CD 2 66:22
track01 07:33 Odessa
track02 09:45 Bury Me Standing >
track03 07:55 Scarlet Begonias >
track04 07:34 Aiko Aiko >
track05 08:44 Dear Prudence >
track06 04:52 Bass and Drums >
track07 11:18 Two Djinn >
track08 08:37 Touch of Grey
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