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Ingo Benzler's Collection

Grateful Dead   05/08/1977

Barton Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Source Rob Eaton seed
Media CDR   3 discs
Notes Lineage:
Betty Board Portion
-- Master 7" Nagra reels 1/2 track @ 7.5ips>Sony PCM 501. Playback on
Sony PCM 701>DAT (Digital Transfer)
-- Rob Eaton DBX Decoding (Spring '99) Playback on Panasonic 4100
DAT>DB 924 D/A>Dolby 361's w/dbx K9-22 Cards>DB 124 A/D>Neve
Capricorn (Digital mixing console)>DB 300S>Panasonic 4100
DAT>DAT>Digi Coax Cable>Tascam CD-RW 700>CDR (x1)>SHN (Rob

Eaton
remaster)

Audience Portion
-- Steve Maizner's Sony ECM-990>Sony TC-152 AUD master>First Gen
Reel>played directly to hard drive. The excellent aud splices were
normalized and patched using ProTools by Karen Hicks


Culled from a May 6, 1999 post by Rob Eaton to dnc --

I recently re-decoded 5/5/77 and 5/8/77. I went into Right Track
Studios in NYC (my home base studio) set up in studio B (which is the
premier state of the art Digital Music Studio in world). I had clean
dat copies (provided by Tim Daulton) that were NOT decoded. I set up
a chain consisting of: Panasonic Sv4100 AES out-->DB Technologies
924AD (24bit/96k capability)-->Dolby 361 Modules w/DBX K9-22 cards--
>Neve Capricorn 32bit point processing/full 24bit Digital Console--
>DB Technologies 122s 24bit/16bit conversion and 44.1k/48k sample
rate conversion-->Panasonic Sv4100 DAT AES in. This is State of the
Art Technology, getting as much of the music that was on the tapes as
possible. The thing about DBX that nobody else got is that in order
to decode it properly the volume into the decoder has to be exact,
otherwise the tapes can be to bass heavy or to bright and compressed.
These tapes are absolutely the best possible reproductions of the dig
tapes made from the masters (I only wish I had the actual reels so I
could do a proper azimuth adjustment on them).
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Owned by Ingo Benzler · Last Updated May 23, 2023