Grateful Dead Starlight Theater Kansas City, MO 8-3-82 Sick Bits Vol. 12 Source: Matrix: SBD: (shnid=19228) Lineage:SBD>MC>PCM>DAT>CDR AUD: (shnid=5984) FOB: 27th Row, by Paul Hogan, Senn 441's > Sony TC-D5 > DAT > CD Via: Paul Bottiglio [complete text files for each source appended at end] Transfer/Editing: All sources were snh files downloaded from the LlaMA and converted to WAV > Vegas 5 (matrix) > WAV > CD Wave > FLAC 16 (level 8) Matrixed by Chris Chappell ScarFire@liquidcity.com 9/01/05 Set 1: d1t01 - Mississippi Half-Step -> d1t02 - Franklin's Tower -> d1t03 - Minglewood Blues d1t04 - Peggy-O d1t05 - El Paso -> d1t06 - Cumberland Blues d1t07 - Althea d1t08 - Cassidy d1t09 - Big Railroad Blues d1t10 - Women Are Smarter d1t11 - Might As Well Set 2: d2t01 - Shakedown Street -> d2t02 - Samson & Delilah d2t03 - To Lay Me Down d2t04 - Let It Grow -> d2t05 - Jam (Weir & Drummers) -> d2t06 - Drums -> d3t01 - Space -> d3t02 - He's Gone -> d3t03 - The Other One -> d3t04 - Stella Blue -> d3t05 - Sugar Magnolia Encore: d3t06 - Casey Jones Total Times: Disc 1 [78:47] Disc 2 [54:33] Disc 3 [54:43] _________________________________________________________________________ General Notes: As requested, this show (which came in a close second place in the voting from Sick Tidbits #1) is a matrix of two sources that are not great on their own, but together they work very nicely, even a better combo (IMO) than the show from 3 nights earlier at Manor Downs (Sick Bits Vol. 11), which has both a better SBD and AUD, but for some reason the combination doesn't sound as sweet as this one. Don't get me wrong, both shows are amazing. The FOB AUD is a vast improvement over a widely circulated AUD, which is used as the patch on the SBD source; however, the FOB suffers from previously employed NR to the point where some phasiness is noticeable even when coupled with the SBD. It also has some harsh mids around 2k which needed cutting. The SBD is balanced with everyone in the mix, but like most boards from this era, it's heavy in the mids. Aside from the fact that the SBD is lightly compressed with SBEs on every track, plus the AUD has some harsh mids and heavy NR, amazingly the two sources work well. The only bummer is that there is no SBD after the cut in Stella for the rest of the show, so no matrix. Also, there is only about 2.5 minutes of Cassidy in SBD (multiple cuts). This show is a true classic, featuring an incredible Half-Step-> Franklin's (one of the best transitions into Franklin's out of any song), a cool Shakedown with some awesome Brent piano, a rare first set Womer R and a rare second set TLMD (only 3 in '82), and an inspired Let It Grow. Pretty much every Jerry tune shines, including the Space-> He's Gone which is the beginning of at least 35 minutes of music in the key of E. The encore, Casey Jones, is one of only two played in '82, and it's also stashed for almost 2 years. Comments from Deadbase: - "I've never been to the Greek Theater in Berkeley, but the Starlight seems to me to be as close to the Greek as a midwesterner can get." "...the stage is framed by castle-style towers on either side, covered by ivy and with a distinct Medieval feel." Reviews from archive.org: - "My girlfriend and I were following the Dead around for a couple weeks of this tour but certainly this one was the best show we saw. What a beautiful venue. The crowd was wonderful. We'd been a bit disappointed with Jerry's '40th Show' at Zoo Ampitheater, though that was actually a pretty decent gig but this one blew us out of our seats. Really the power of the show can't be transmitted through a recording." - "104 degrees that day and the place was electric...every song was played tight and flowed from to the next.." - "This whole show smokes: from the raging 1/2 Step>Franklin's Tower right through ALL of the 2nd set. I would give almost anything to have been there this night ... 5 stars for performance." _________________________________________________________________________ SHNTOOL Output: I:\>shntool len matrix/gd82-08-03.matrix/*.flac length expanded size cdr WAVE problems filename 8:39.08 91570460 --- -- ---xx gd82-08-03d1t01.flac 11:27.21 121236236 --- -- ---xx gd82-08-03d1t02.flac 6:57.51 73678796 --- -- ---xx gd82-08-03d1t03.flac 7:45.10 82049564 --- -- ---xx gd82-08-03d1t04.flac 4:40.65 49544924 --- -- ---xx gd82-08-03d1t05.flac 6:16.42 66425228 --- -- ---xx gd82-08-03d1t06.flac 8:38.39 91466972 --- -- ---xx gd82-08-03d1t07.flac 6:32.57 69282908 --- -- ---xx gd82-08-03d1t08.flac 5:53.55 62398604 --- -- ---xx gd82-08-03d1t09.flac 7:21.55 77921804 --- -- ---xx gd82-08-03d1t10.flac 4:33.61 48300716 --- -- ---xx gd82-08-03d1t11.flac 14:33.22 154048988 --- -- ---xx gd82-08-03d2t01.flac 8:09.24 86316092 --- -- ---xx gd82-08-03d2t02.flac 9:21.21 99009836 --- -- ---xx gd82-08-03d2t03.flac 11:03.63 117101420 --- -- ---xx gd82-08-03d2t04.flac 2:20.29 24764252 --- -- ---xx gd82-08-03d2t05.flac 9:05.50 96255644 --- -- ---xx gd82-08-03d2t06.flac 9:05.50 96255644 --- -- ---xx gd82-08-03d3t01.flac 12:37.66 133690076 --- -- ---xx gd82-08-03d3t02.flac 8:22.21 88602236 --- -- ---xx gd82-08-03d3t03.flac 10:40.29 112964252 --- -- ---xx gd82-08-03d3t04.flac 9:02.66 95764076 --- -- ---xx gd82-08-03d3t05.flac 4:57.09 52412012 --- -- ---xx gd82-08-03d3t06.flac 188:07.14 1991060740 B(totals for 23 files, 0.6555 overall compression ratio) _________________________________________________________________________ FLAC Fingerprint: gd82-08-03d1t01.flac:72610b7255016dddc7afc56cb026959e gd82-08-03d1t02.flac:1ed45b9cb7edd896304e923a87e58d0c gd82-08-03d1t03.flac:aba84f154c2a00c8f85a3a23c9dd1c92 gd82-08-03d1t04.flac:11db4be05e228018d090a8e44dd2e501 gd82-08-03d1t05.flac:febeca2c2a810095ccfcd7ea88037349 gd82-08-03d1t06.flac:f1966c46eac9d65e9720f0880faf3c8a gd82-08-03d1t07.flac:f51df2748f7674ab0bd4611055a4e64e gd82-08-03d1t08.flac:137f83effc87184aa648b3fa35daaaca gd82-08-03d1t09.flac:906bd71977ab647b83792050ee864771 gd82-08-03d1t10.flac:83f696ef6de481c34d0ae6f965dd6079 gd82-08-03d1t11.flac:70edad3c817bae41f7f9a80c349ad83e gd82-08-03d2t01.flac:5432d166e54b36313c3a132d064533bd gd82-08-03d2t02.flac:cddd40ef2cd9375e23d389383c1aa999 gd82-08-03d2t03.flac:63adc3d02859118e4491758bfcbb8710 gd82-08-03d2t04.flac:e3f9136a657cbbe83252d53d8a3cdaab gd82-08-03d2t05.flac:130f9e493a5fdabd3c737c32741ef6f9 gd82-08-03d2t06.flac:0d9d74c5b64ef6f3a590685a85c2fdcf gd82-08-03d3t01.flac:1996c43c2fb60c881e7b47e7a85d1515 gd82-08-03d3t02.flac:ee3bdd6d3aca4f94245fa9905c4aaa1e gd82-08-03d3t03.flac:72fd4df9c6632f3ead2078c41fc08049 gd82-08-03d3t04.flac:41f6758cbc44a4b1994c943ba4c276b1 gd82-08-03d3t05.flac:4c025cf665abe27489af2c19034fd11c gd82-08-03d3t06.flac:20ee8ec9764cb3c5f2557337343339f2 _________________________________________________________________________ Editing Notes: - Pitch Both sources were pitched differently, the AUD being the sharpest by far, with a lot of fluctuation. I used the SBD as my master timeline and pitch referenced the AUD to it. For set I, the AUD had to be pitched down between -.20 (20 cents) and -.37 (37 cents). In set II, the AUD had to be pitched down between -.01 (1 cent) and -.08 (8 cents) for Shakedown>Samson, but for TLMD, LIG>Drums the AUD was pitched up about the same range of amount. After the cut in Drums in the AUD source the pitch was brought down between -.07 and -.42 cents to achieve synch and pitch correction - 1.00 being 100 cents which is a semitone. The SBD is close to A=440, but it also strays during each set, and granted both masters are from cassettes, so there are bound to be pitch fluctuations throughout the show, which made it a hard one to synch. - Synch Because of the speed fluctuation within a given source, multiple edits were performed to keep the sources synched. Because the SBD was my master pitch and time ref, the AUD was synched to the SBD (too many edits to list). - Sonic Quality/Matrix ratio The only dynamic processing I employed was a little EQ to the AUD source, cutting 2.5k about 1 dB to minimize the annoying midrange from the previously employed NR; The SBD got a similar treatment, albeit less cut, and only for the first set. Also, I applied Waves L2 (limiter) to the master 2 buss to keep things contained. All I was trying to do here is to add some dimension to the SBD by using the ambience of the AUD. The result is not as lively as an indoor recording, but it's a clear recording with some phase present due to the condition of the AUD. Hopefully, it's somewhat close to how it sounded at the show. If I had to guess, the SBD/AUD ratio would be somewhere between 2.5:1 and 3:1. - Edits The following are places where the SBD and AUD had splices, holes or incomplete coverage in reference to the final matrix timeline. Not captured here in the edit list, but certainly worth noting, is that the SBD had sector boundary errors on every track somewhere in the lineage, resulting in about 29 milliseconds between tracks being lost. These were not covered by the AUD, but rather spliced together and covered up. SBD: d1t01 (0:00 - 0:33) - missing d1t02 (3:23 - 3:24) - dropout (increased AUD by 4.4 dB) d1t02 (3:46 - 3:46) - a third of a second dropout (increased AUD by 4 dB) d1t03 (0:00 - 0:01) - missing d1t03 (1:40 - 1:40) - a tenth of a second dropout (increased AUD by 4 dB) d1t04 (0:00 - 0:26) - missing d1t05 (0:00 - 0:04) - missing d1t05 (4:08 - 4:08) - removed glitch d1t06 (5:42 - 5:46) - missing (crowd) d1t08 (0:59 - 4:34) - missing d1t08 (5:16 - 5:36) - missing d1t09 (5:49 - 5:49) - a tenth of a second dropout (increased AUD by 5 dB) d2t04 (10:40 - 10:52) - missing d2t05 (0:17 - 0:18) - 2 tenth of a second dropouts (increased AUD by 5 dB) d2t05 (2:04 - 2:04) - removed glitch d3t03 (5:45 - 6:00) - missing d3t04 (8:08 - 10:40) - missing d3t05 (0:00 - 9:02) - missing all d3t05 (0:00 - 4:56) - missing all AUD: d1t01 (3:10 - 3:11) - removed dropout (right channel only) d1t01 (4:51 - 4:52) - removed dropout (left channel only) d1t04 (7:39 - 7:40) - missing (crowd) d1t05 (4:00 - 4:01) - removed dropout (right channel only) d1t05>6 (4:35 - 0:05) - missing d1t06 (5:46 - 6:10) - missing (tuning) d1t07 (8:00 - 8:01) - missing (crowd) d1t08 (6:03 - 6:21) - missing (crowd/tuning) d2t01 (0:00 - 0:18) - missing (crowd/tuning) d2t06 (0:20 - 0:23) - missing d2t06 (0:57 - 1:44) - missing d2t06 (1:52 - 1:53) - missing d2t06 (8:28 - 8:44) - missing d3t01 (0:36 - 0:50) - missing d3t05 (2:38 - 2:45) - patched in alt. AUD from the one on the SBD source Note that there is a lot of music missing from the SBD at the end of the show, and the AUD source has some holes as well, fortunately not in the same places as the SBD, thus full coverage is achieved. Thanks to Paul Hogan for recording the AUD and to Paul Bottiglio for converting it. Also, many thanks for those of you on bt.etree that wanted this show to be matrixed, it was well worth the effort for me, and I'm sure it will be worth the wait for you. Enjoy!!! -Chappy _________________________________________________________________________ SBD Source Notes: Grateful Dead- 8/3/82 Starlight Theatre- Kansas City,Missouri Lineage:SBD>MC>PCM>DAT>CDR Disc 1 Set 1 1.//Mississippi Half-Step 8:21 2.Franklin's Tower 11:26 3.New Minglewood Blues 6:36 4.Peggy-O 7:09 5.El Paso 4:47 6.Cumberland Blues 5:43 7.Althea 9:04 8.Cas//si//dy 2:19 9.Big Railroad Blues 6:17 10.Women Are Smarter 7:30 11.Might As Well 4:48 Disc 2 Set 2 1.Shakedown Street 14:36 2.Samson And Delilah 8:10 3.To Lay Me Down 9:21 4.Let It Grow// 13:15 5.Drums 8:55 6.Space 9:57 Disc 3 1.He's Gone 12:50 2.The Other One 8:07 3.Stella Blue 8:06 4.Sugar Magnolia* 5:30 5.Sunshine Daydream* 3:22 6.Casey Jones* 5:06 Missippi Half-Step cuts in at 12 seconds Cassidy has several cuts throughout Let It Grow cuts at tailend as they play out to drums * Aud patch assume from widely circulated audince source _________________________________________________________________________ AUD Source Notes: Starlight Amphitheatre, Kansas City, MO 08/03/82 AUD : MC (FOB, 27th Row, by Paul Hogan, Senn 441's > Sony TC-D5) > DAT > CD From: Paul Bottiglio Disc 1 Set 1 1. Mississippi Half Step Uptown Toodeloo > 8:30 2. Franklin's Tower > 11:16 3. Minglewood Blues 6:50 4. Peggy-O 7:33 5. El Paso > 4:42 6. Cumberland Blues 5:43 7. Althea 8:35 8. Cassidy 5:57 9. Big RxR Blues 5:54 10. Women Are Smarter 7:14 11. Might As Well 4:40 Disc 2 Set 2 1. Shakedown Street > 14:12 2. Samson & Delilah 8:12 3. To Lay Me Down > 9:17 4. Let It Grow 11:02 5. Jam 5. Drumz Disc 3 Set 2 continued 1. Space > 9:19 2. He’s Gone > 12:19 3. The Other One > 8:12 4. Stella Blue > 10:30 5. Sugar Magnolia 9:01 6. E) Casey Jones 5:06 Notes: d1t5 "El Paso" 4:37 - 4:42 and d1t6 "Cumberland Blues" 0:00 - 0:08 SBD: ? > C patch by "Alan J. Fink, MCP" App\Http\Controllers\Api\FileDownloadController::download(): Return value must be of type string, none returned