Grateful Dead
Date 1986-06-20
Greek Theatre
Berkeley CA

Set 1
d1t01 - In The Midnight Hour
d1t02 - Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo
d1t03 - El Paso
d1t04 - West L.A. Fadeaway
d1t05 - equipment break
d1t06 - Me And My Uncle
d1t07 - Mexicali Blues
d1t08 - Candyman
d1t09 - Let It Grow

Set 2
d2t01 - tuning
d2t02 - Uncle John's Band  >
d2t03 - Playing In The Band >
d2t04 - Comes A Time >
d2t05 - Jam >
d2t06 - Drums >
d2t07 - Space >
d2t08 - I Need A Miracle >
d2t09 - Black Peter >
d2t10 - Around And Around >    **
d2t11 - Good Lovin'            **
encore The Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo) &&

Notes:
!! Pre-amp Bass distortion throughout, sometimes heavy; minimized as best as could
** Left channel battery started to die on master. At segue after Around & Around swapped Right channel over and inverted for last song.
&& Not on 1st gen tapes

Recording Information:
Source: 1GEN CA
Microphones: AKG c422 "omnioid" (X-Y at 90')|AKG B18
Recorder: Sony TC-D5M| Maxell MX 90's no Dolby (2nd in line)
Location: approximately 20 feet from stage handheld
Transfer:  Nakamichi CR-5A> Sonic AD2k @24/48 > Marantz PMD661|24/48 SD
Processing: SD| Audacity | cdwav editor | TLH | FLAC| foobar 2000 tagger
Recorded by: Executive Crew; Mike Davis, Tom Pinney, Aaron, John Hance
Transferred: Kyle Holbrook
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For the Bass players in da house!
the story:
The tape case says 20 feet from stage. The audio signature corroborates this as there is basically only Phil's bass along with a bit of guitar and vocals throughout most of the show. The first set when they had to thoroughly hide it
at what sounds like chest height or lower has a certain muddiness to it which cannot be characterized as quaint. I thought about asking one of my mastering guru friends to work with this, but it just doesn't seem to have the potential. there sure is some incredible bass aside from the distortions when the mic overloads the pre-amps. By the time it gets to Candyman/Let it Grow and the mic raised it up a bit the sound quality gets slightly better.

The second set is much easier to listen to, albeit still not the best of the AKG c422's ever made. There are the same bass distortions during the entire set but much less than set 1. Give it a listen if for no other reason than to hear the FINE Jerry solo in Comes A Time!

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     8:57.00       94726844 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6071  gd1986-06-20akgc422-davis-holbrook-16s1t02.flac
     4:34.28       48399500 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6028  gd1986-06-20akgc422-davis-holbrook-16s1t03.flac
     6:51.05       72512204 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6303  gd1986-06-20akgc422-davis-holbrook-16s1t04.flac
     2:30.16       26497676 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5625  gd1986-06-20akgc422-davis-holbrook-16s1t05.flac
     2:53.24       30573692 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6350  gd1986-06-20akgc422-davis-holbrook-16s1t06.flac
     6:14.43       66074780 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6250  gd1986-06-20akgc422-davis-holbrook-16s1t07.flac
     6:21.22       67260188 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6212  gd1986-06-20akgc422-davis-holbrook-16s1t08.flac
    12:23.03      131071416 B   -b-   --   ---xx   flac  0.6374  gd1986-06-20akgc422-davis-holbrook-16s1t09.flac
     0:59.24       10464092 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5058  gd1986-06-20akgc422-davis-holbrook-16s2t01.flac
     7:06.14       75179372 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5781  gd1986-06-20akgc422-davis-holbrook-16s2t02.flac
     7:02.08       74459660 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5793  gd1986-06-20akgc422-davis-holbrook-16s2t03.flac
     7:59.36       84580316 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5487  gd1986-06-20akgc422-davis-holbrook-16s2t04.flac
     1:29.09       15720812 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5545  gd1986-06-20akgc422-davis-holbrook-16s2t05.flac
    11:04.40      117223724 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5168  gd1986-06-20akgc422-davis-holbrook-16s2t06.flac
     7:41.67       81478028 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5484  gd1986-06-20akgc422-davis-holbrook-16s2t07.flac
     4:47.44       50730332 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6407  gd1986-06-20akgc422-davis-holbrook-16s2t08.flac
     7:19.03       77446700 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6107  gd1986-06-20akgc422-davis-holbrook-16s2t09.flac
     3:47.09       40064012 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4263  gd1986-06-20akgc422-davis-holbrook-16s2t10.flac
     8:48.74       93312568 B   -b-   --   ---xx   flac  0.4164  gd1986-06-20akgc422-davis-holbrook-16s2t11.flac
   123:31.68     1307461960 B                            0.5753  (20 files)


