The Grateful Dead
The Manhattan Center
New York, NY
April 4, 1971

source: MSR > C >DAT3 > Delta DiO 2496 > SoundForge 7.0 > cdwav > flac > wav > flac

(Note: this source was originally seeded with some Disc 2 songs out of order.  Please do not circulate files that match the original .ffp)

Disc 1
set 1

01   Tuning
02   Bertha 
03   Me And My Uncle  
04   Next Time You See Me  
05   Morning Dew  
06   Playing In The Band  
07   Loser  
08   Easy Wind   
09   Me And Bobby McGee 
10   Greatest Story Ever Told >
11   Johnny B. Goode

set 2

12   Truckin' 

Disc 2
set 2 con't'd

01   Hard To Handle 
02   Deal 
03   Sugar Magnolia
04   Casey Jones
05   Good Lovin' >
06   Drums > 
07   Good Lovin'
08   Goin' Down The Road> 
09   Saint Stephen > 
10   Not Fade Away > 
11   Uncle John's Band

notes:

this is a partial clean up of shnid 35252

d1t02 - removed click 5:51
d1t03 - copied right channel to left, to eliminate partial dropout at 0:51
          - removed small gap at 3:31
d1t04 - copied right channel to left, to eliminate small dropout
          - removed crackle at 3:00
d1t05 - boosted left channel by 1.5 decibels 1:24 - 1:29
d1t07 - reduced crackle in the tuning at end of track
d1t08 - copied right channel to left, to elinate dropout 0:30. phasing between
            2:47:8 - 2:49:3 partially alleviated
d1t12 - removed several instances of crackle
d2t01 - removed several instances of crackle
d2t03 - remove crackle around 0:36 - 0:38
d2t05 - small error in left channel at 0:37:07.  copied right channel to left. small                     error at 2:49 corrected

problems remaining

d1t08 - cut at 4:19
d1t09 - dropout  5:11 - 5:14 
d1t10 - vocals are low at the start
d2t03 - vocals very low between 5:10 - 5:27
d2t04 - sound quality inferior for first 17 seconds
d2t07-t09 (first 55 seconds) - sound problems throughout, a curious stuttering effect

d2 retracked to separate out Drums

comments:

I did consider using the circulating aud to patch the problems with d1t08 & t09, but it is of such inferior quality that I did't think it would have added anything that was worthwhile.

Despite all the problems that remain, this is a vast improvement over the aud.

seeded to abdg

SIRMick
August 2006