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
     1:08.52       12117548    ---   --   ---xx   gd1981-08-12d1t01.flac
     4:54.32       51936908    ---   --   ---xx   gd1981-08-12d1t02.flac
     4:17.44       45438332    ---   --   ---xx   gd1981-08-12d1t03.flac
     9:17.47       98365388    ---   --   ---xx   gd1981-08-12d1t04.flac
     2:27.28       25996700    ---   --   ---xx   gd1981-08-12d1t05.flac
     4:37.12       48891068    ---   --   ---xx   gd1981-08-12d1t06.flac
     4:44.47       50208188    ---   --   ---xx   gd1981-08-12d1t07.flac
     7:30.36       79464716    ---   --   ---xx   gd1981-08-12d1t08.flac
     9:17.30       98325404    ---   --   ---xx   gd1981-08-12d1t09.flac
     7:02.32       74516108    ---   --   ---xx   gd1981-08-12d1t10.flac
     6:47.00       71794844    ---   --   ---xx   gd1981-08-12d1t11.flac
     4:14.30       44876204    ---   --   ---xx   gd1981-08-12d2t01.flac
     4:59.04       52753052    ---   --   ---xx   gd1981-08-12d2t02.flac
    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
     5:21.70       56789084    ---   --   ---xx   gd1981-08-12d3t10.flac
   171:25.45     1814380940 B                     (totals for 25 files, 0.5624 overall compression ratio)
