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Grateful Dead   09/09/1972

Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood, CA
Source mac > cass (u/k gen) > nak dr3 > audacity > cdwav (w/ sbd patches)
Media CD-R   3 discs
Notes Note: this was seeded as a four-disc source. I didn't think the tracks were split idealy, therefore I simply moved the first three tracks of disc two to the end of disc one, which enabled all of Set One to fit on one disc (considered ideal where possible). I then moved Truckin' and Drums from the start of disc three to the end of disc two (which left the much better choice of the opening Thunder of The Other One to kick off disc three). The entire show now fits beautifully on three discs as follows:

Grateful Dead
09/09/1972
Hollywood Palladium
Hollywood, CA

Main source:
mac > cass (u/k gen) > wav > flac > wav > flac
Transfer:
nak dr3 > audacity > cdwav

Second source [used primarily for patches]:
sbd > mr> dat > cdr > shn > wav > flac


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DISC 1:
*Set 1*
01 Promised Land
02 Sugaree
03 Me and My Uncle
04 Bird Song
05 Black-Throated Wind
06 Tennessee Jed
07 Mexicali Blues
08 Deal
09 Playin' in the Band
10 Loser
11 Johnny B. Goode

DISC 2:
*Set 2*
01 China Cat Sunflower ->
02 I Know You Rider
03 Friend of the Devil
04 Jack Straw
05 He's Gone
06 Truckin' ->
07 Drums ->

DISC 3:
*Set 2 cont.*
01 The Other One
02 Stella Blue
03 El Paso
04 Casey Jones
05 Sugar Magnolia [w/ Sunshine Daydream outro]
*Encore*
06 One More Saturday Night
07 tuning and talk, then they decide the show is finished

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notes [2007 seed]:

- as Zeb mentions in his notes below, there was some distortion. I have reduced or removed it with some degree of success. The result is very pleasing.
- I have patched Playin' at approx 0:08 (for approximately 1.5 seconds) and Truckin at 12:36 (for approximately 5 seconds) with the sbd source.
- I have repaired a considerable number of small drop-outs and partial drop-outs.
- I have cleaned up the transitions and cross-faded, I also added back the sections that Zeb had faded out, just a personal preference!
- I decided to include Stella Blue and Saturday Night, from the sbd source, so that the show is complete. Before doing so, I eq'd these tracks so that the sound was more in keeping with the rest of show. I also eq'd the patch in Truckin'.
- remastering was done with iZotope Ozone and Waves. Hiss reduction with Steinberg Clean.

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Zeb's notes [10-20-05]:

I downloaded this show from the Lossless Legs site (www.shnflac.net) a few months ago...when I gave it a first listen for sonic quality, I found that it was pitched too slow...so, after testing it numerous times to get the sound right (I don't claim to have perfect pitch, and I'm not a musician - but I have been listening to the Dead for nearly 25 years and feel I have a decent ear for their voices), I did the following:
- I merged the wavs for disc 1 into a big file using WavMerge, and corrected the pitch (to my ears) using GoldWave, then I did the same for discs 2 & 3...
- Each of the 3 big files needed to be pitched up 1 semitone, and then they needed these additional tweaks (GoldWave calls it fine-tuning): disc 1 by -1 cent, disc 2 by -2 cents, and disc 3 by +8 cents
- additional tweaks were made per the recommendation of a musician friend of mine (thanks Dr. Dave!), who knew upon first listen that a song wasn't pitched correctly by the song's key (guitar sounded sharp, piano notes were flat, etc.) - those adjustments were for d1t02,03 & 08 all of which needed a +1 cent speed change........now it's about as good as it's gonna get!

I added fades at the end of the 3 discs (after Deal, He's Gone and Sugar Magnolia), and needed to do some pitch correction to the lion's share of Playin' (there was a cut)...the same was true of Truckin', where the tape flip

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