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Rupert Picante's Collection

Grateful Dead   05/08/1977

Barton Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Source SBD (Eaton Remaster)
Media CDR   3 discs
Notes 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


Disk 1:

Set I

1. Minglewood Blues -> (AUD splice provides beginning of track)
2. Loser
3. El Paso
4. They Love Each Other
5. Jack Straw
6. Deal
7. Lazy Lightning -> Supplication (Aud Splice during transition)
8. Brown Eyed Women
9. Mama Tried

Disk 2:

Set I (continued)

1. Row Jimmy
2. Dancin' In The Streets

Set II

3. Take A Step Back/Tuning
4. Scarlet Begonias-> Fire On The Mountain

Disk 3:

Set II (continued):

1. Estimated Prophet
2. Tuning/Dead Air
3. Saint Stephen->
4. Not Fade Away->
5. Saint Stephen->
6. Morning Dew
7. Encore: Saturday Night





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 Tchnology,
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 absoultly 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).
Tech Notes All
Trades Allowed Yes
Ratings Sound: A
Reference / Generation 0001479676
Owned by Rupert Picante · Last Updated May 23, 2023