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Matt Roman's Collection

Grateful Dead   05/08/1977

Barton Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Source Betty Board Portion -- Master 7" Nagra reels 1/2 track @ 7.5ips>Sony PCM
Media .shn   2 discs
Notes Grateful Dead
Barton Hall
Ithica, NY
Cornell University
5-8-77

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


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 0004832615
Owned by Matt Roman · Last Updated May 23, 2023