Grateful Dead
Date 9/23/72
Palace Theater
Waterbury, Connecticut

Source: SBD>MR>Cass>DAT>CDR>EAC>SHN

SHNID 135287
This is a flac encoded & tagged restoration of shnid 2201
Restoration done with Diamond Cut Forensics 10 (beta1 through RC3)

--Set 1--
d1t01 - Big River
d1t02 - Sugaree
d1t03 - Mexicali Blues
d1t04 - Friend of the Devil*
d1t05 - Black Throated Wind
d1t06 - China Cat Sunflower ->
d1t07 - I Know You Rider 
d1t08 - Me & My Uncle
d1t09 - Tennessee Jed
d1t10 - Jack Straw
d1t11 - Bird Song
d1t12 - El Paso
d1t13 - Deal
d1t14 - Playing in the Band

--Set 2--
d2t01 - The Promised Land ->
d2t02 - Bertha ->
d2t03 - Greatest Story Ever Told
d2t04 - Brown Eyed Women
d2t05 - Around & Around
d2t06 - It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
d2t07 - Cryptical Envelopment ->
d2t08 - Drums ->
d2t09 - The Other One ->
d2t10 - Wharf Rat
d2t11 - Beat It on Down the Line
d2t12 - Ramble on Rose
d2t13 - Sugar Magnolia ->
d2t14 - Going Down the Road Feeling Bad ->
d2t15 - Not Fade Away
d2t16 - (Encore) One More Saturday Night
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*Garcia sings "ran into the level..."

Original Notes from an info file provided by G.S. Hamilton via SHNID 2201 Notes :
From the point of the splice in Rider, all the way through
Deal, there is an oscillating fuzziness that sounds like
tape waver, reminiscent of how some of the water-damaged
Betty tapes sound. It is particularly bad on Deal. Playing
reverts to the previous cleaner sound, and the sound is fine 
until about the 6:11 point in GDTRFB. From here on, there is
an oscillating loss of the left channel, again sounding like 
a problem with tape wavering as it passes over the record 
head.

Droncit notes:
intermittent static in right channel interpolated.
I Know You Rider: cut/splice (cut out blank spot)
Around And Around): dropout  (cut out blank spot)
Wharf Rat discontinuity/splice (cut out blank spot)
The intermitten fade out of the left channel, (and sometimes the right channel, very rarely both channels), was evident for about 1/3 of set I and about 1/3 of set II.  Luckily, most instances had music, but at a lower level than the rest of the recording. Some of these occurred every 2 seconds, some had much greater distances between them.  I found as many of these as I could and used a curvilinear gain increase.  I got most of these, but likely missed some.  They will be more noticeable in headphones.  Sometimes the music was so far down it was difficult to bring up, but most of the time these spots are no longer noticeable. In instances where the music was completely gone, I interpolated these as best I could. There were too many of these instances to document. 

I then used several techniques to bring the presence back.  This was recorded at a low level, or with a dirty head. I suspect the dirty head, or possibly a pinch roller with a piece of tape or oxide deposit that would lift the tape off the record head enough to cause the dropouts. Some hiss remains, especially between songs (no noise reduction was used).

I checked for speed issues and digital artifacts as referred to in SHNID 130728, but did not find any, but did hear them in 130728, so I used the original source. There are spots where the band is a bit out of tune.  There is still some lack of clarity in the instruments, and a couple of spots where the bass distorts but it's the best I can do with it. 

