Grateful Dead

February 11, 1989 Saturday
The Fabulous Forum 
mInglewood CA

Ambient Masters by Tapers From Hell: We Are Everywhere! 
Mike French "Moke" analog master

From the Impact Zone, fob/dfc

Set one:
Sennheiser MKE2002 HRTF headband -> Sony TC-D5M @ 6'5" by Mike French

Set two;
~ Schoeps cmc?? cards (caps on bodies, cardioids) ORTF @ 6'4" covered by the Mike Stand (MF) at eye level.
~ Oade pre (m118 ?) -> Sony PCM processor->beta, line out (Sean Weber Small rig) -> Sony TC-D5M master by 
Mike French 

Transfer to 24/96;
Sony TC-D5M master deck w/ master, no n.r. -> Tascam DVRA1000 DSD recorder in high-res pcm mode, 
24/96 by Mike French

then to flac;
DVRA1000 Project Disc 24/96 imported to Mac OS-X Tiger, conversion by xACT, by MF


1: 
Half Step> 
Minglewood, 
Candyman, 
Big River, 
Built To Last, 
Queen Jane, 
We Can Run, 
Bird Song

2: 
China Cat> 
I Know You Rider
Woman Smarter, 
SOTM, 
Estimated> 
Take You Home> 
Drumz*> 
Eyes> 
Miracle> 
Black Peter> 
Lovelight 
E: Box Of Rain

*with Airto Moreira, Flora Purim and Diana Moreira


These were exceedingly loud concerts. So loud that our clothes were pinned to us for all 3 nights 
of the shows.  We experienced brickwalling to a degree, and it is present in the first set of the show,
as well as the second set, but not as apparent. 
It was so loud that even after realizing that we were brickwalling the hrtf rig, 
and changing to the oade/schoeps ortf rig that was also present, even the oade/schoeps rig experienced 
some brickwalling, as can be heard. None of it is overbearing. Perhaps it might be more palettable in 
knowing that it could not be avoided in this instance, even by the best of rigs. It was just an incredibly 
loud series of concerts.

All three nights of this run are from the exact same spot, as marked by a piece of gaffers tape on the 
vinyl floor covering. The second run of shows later in this year were also from this same spot. So all 6 
shows of the '89 Dead Forum runs are from the same spot, the Impact Zone (fob/dfc)

There were dead crew members in the light rack looking for, pointing out, and shutting down FOB tapers 
during this run of shows.

enjoy!

peace and wellness to you and yours

Mike

