Phish
"The Great Went"
Loring Airforce Base
Limesone, Maine
8/17/1997

Original recording:
Neumann TLM170 FOB -> Sonosax SX-M1 -> Apogee AD500E -> Tascam DA-P1 (m)

(Orchestra set may be Neumann TLM170 FOB -> Tascam DA-P1 (m) -- I can't recall)

Transfer: Sony R500->Sound Devices 722

Mastered: Soundforge Audio Studio 10.0a - slight volume normalization, some attempts to clean up glitches listed below (high pass filtering, "LP pop and click removal" on the affected areas), also brought down the volume of most of the firecracker pops before normalizing. Sample rate conversion 48khz to 44.1khz using iZotope 64-Bit SRC set higher than "Highest Quality" setting w/anti-alias filter. All file manipulation in Soundforge done at 24 bits, then dithered back to 16 bits using using iZotope MBIT+ with Ultra noise shaping, High dither settings. Tracked in CDWav.

Set 1
1. The Wedge
2. The Beauty Of My Dreams
3. Dog Stole Things
4. Vultures
5. Water In The Sky
6. Maze
7. Bouncing Around The Room ->
8. Tweezer ->
9. Taste
10. banter - one more song, introducing string quartet, orchestra
11. Carolina
12. crowd

Set 2
1. crowd
2. Down With Disease ->
3. Bathtub Gin ->
4. Uncle Penn
5. 2001 ->
6. Trey talks about collaborative art project ->
7. Harry Hood
8. crowd

Set 3
1. crowd
2. Buffalo Bill ->
3. NICU ->
4. Weigh
5. Guyute
6. Dirt
7. Scent Of A Mule
8. Prince Caspian (last drum hit is cut due to battery death)
9. encore break
10. When The Circus Comes To Town
11. Tweezer Reprise
12. feedback/crowd cheers while burning the art project/Disco Inferno outro music

Removed loud balloon pops at s1t6(01:45) and S2t2(00:14) and s3t3(5:12,5:14)

String Quartet/Orchestra set
1.
2.
3.
4.
5. Trey intros....
6. Histoire du soldat (The Soldierâ€™s Tale) [Stravinsky], narrated by Dan Mills conducted by Dr. Stuart Mars
dropout on master tape at 70:13 (T6/45:29)

"thud" & wind noise at T1(00:34)
Volume recalibration at T2(00:26)
Loud nearby taper conversations audible early in T1/T2 (people talking about power inverters, MK2 capsules, etc.) throughout quiet parts
Loud helicopter flyby audible through T2, T3 and T4.
Occasional wind noise at various points in the recording.
Muted LOUD bass feedback from PA T5(00:10)
Muted various baloon pops


Original DAT recordings by Scott Bernstein.
Transferred and mastered by Scott Bernstein, 1/2010.

A rundown of my previous BARN archival releases (all can be found on archive.org):
BARN1 - Col Bruce Hampton and the Code Talkers at Bret & Joyce's wedding 9/17/05
BARN2 - Col Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit (w/guest Warren Haynes for all of set 2) Wetlands 11/20/93
BARN3 - moe. Wetlands 7/8/95
BARN4 - Dan Bern Bottom Line 7/31/98 (late show)
BARN5 - moe. Birch Hill 10/31/96
BARN6 - moe. Maxwells 1/20/96
BARN7 - Dan Bern Central Park Summerstage 9/19/97
BARN8 - Dan Bern, Bottom Line 8/1/98
BARN9 - moe. Bayou 4/5/97
BARN10 - moe. Irving Plaza 4/4/97
BARN11 - moe. AKA 9/7/95
BARN12 - Yolk AKA 9/7/95
BARN13 - Robert Walter/Johnny Vidacovich/James Singleton/Donald Harrison Preservation Hall 4/30/08
BARN14 - Phish Las Vegas, NV 10/31/98 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN15 - Phish Great Went @ Loring AFB, Limestone, ME 8/16/97 (on bt.etree.org)


