Grateful Dead
Salt Palace
Salt Lake City, UT
08/12/1981
Source: aud > ??? > cass (unknown gens)
Transfer: cass > Nakamichi BE-125E > EMU 0202 > Wavelab > wav (24/96) > flac
Disc 1
set I
01 tuning *
02 Alabama Getaway* >
03 Greatest Story Ever Told
04 Friend Of The Devil
05 Mama Tried >
06 Mexicali Blues
07 Jack-A-Roe
08 C C Rider
09 //Althea >
10 Lost Sailor >
11 Saint Of Circumstance
Disc 2
set II
01 //Might As Well
03 Man Smart, Woman Smarter
04 Scarlet Begonias >
05 Fire On The Mountain
Disc 3
set II cont'd
01 Estimated Prophet >
02 Eyes Of The World >
03 Drums >
04 Space >
05 Spanish Jam >
06 Truckin' >
07 Morning Dew >
08 Around And Around >
09 Good Lovin'
encore
10 US Blues
Notes:
- it was neccessary to re-assemble the show in the correct running order as it had been cut up to
fit on the tapes.
- dc offset removed
- all tracks have been pitch corrected using the circulating sbd as a guide. They were running between
4% and 10% too fast
* tuning and the first 1:32 of "Alabama Getaway" patched in from shnid 10548.
- the first 7 seconds of "Althea" are missing.
- the start of "Might As Well" is clipped, 3 or 4 notes are missing.
- The first 6:52 of "Althea", all of "Might As Well"and the first 1:42 of "Man Smart, Woman Smarter"
have an inferior sound quality. They sounded quite muffled and have a higher level of tape hiss,
compared to the rest of the show. I have brightened these sections to make them sound more
consistent with the other tracks.
- there is a problem with "Man Smart, Woman Smarter"at 4:11.
- the tape was paused between songs, or these sections were cut out when the tapes were originally
assembled, on a number of occasions. Crossfades have been put in to smooth these out.
Comments:
This recording reveals that the circulating sbd has approximately 2:49 missing from "Eyes Of The World",
2:22 from the end of the first verse to about half way through the second and 27 seconds at the end. Also
about 4 seconds at the start of "Good Lovin'" that is missing from the sbd. Only about 8 seconds of music is
missing from the whole show!
This is somewhat of a "Curate's Egg" as regards the sound. When it's good it's very good and there ARE a lot of very good parts! Hopefully this version will prompt someone to dig deep and come up with a better copy of what is a great show.
Thanks to Uncle Barry for providing the tapes and Roeret for helping me out with the patch source
edited with Adobe Audition, mastered with iZotope Ozone, and resampled & dithered with iZotope RX Advanced
transferred, edited and mastered
SIRMick
October 2008
shntool output:
length expanded size cdr WAVE problems filename
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9:17.47 98365388 --- -- ---xx gd1981-08-12d1t04.flac
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7:02.32 74516108 --- -- ---xx gd1981-08-12d1t10.flac
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11:49.56 125199356 --- -- ---xx gd1981-08-12d2t03.flac
11:05.46 117414236 --- -- ---xx gd1981-08-12d2t04.flac
11:21.47 120238988 --- -- ---xx gd1981-08-12d3t01.flac
10:31.63 111456620 --- -- ---xx gd1981-08-12d3t02.flac
12:39.60 134028764 --- -- ---xx gd1981-08-12d3t03.flac
2:59.28 31641500 --- -- ---xx gd1981-08-12d3t04.flac
2:53.59 30656012 --- -- ---xx gd1981-08-12d3t05.flac
8:04.25 85436444 --- -- ---xx gd1981-08-12d3t06.flac
11:32.30 122139404 --- -- ---xx gd1981-08-12d3t07.flac
3:59.42 42258428 --- -- ---xx gd1981-08-12d3t08.flac
7:47.25 82437644 --- -- ---xx gd1981-08-12d3t09.flac
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171:25.45 1814380940 B (totals for 25 files, 0.5624 overall compression ratio)