Ratdog

3rd July 2002

London Astoria, London, England

Lineage: Sonic Studios DS6 mics->Sony D7 DAT>
CD>CD>CD>EAC>.wav>retracked>MKW 0.97b>.shn with seek tables appended.
(The initial CD copies were via standalone CD copiers)

1st Set:
Disc #1:
1. Dead Air                              0:17
2. Jam >                                 3:10
3. Shakedown Street >                   11:40
4. She Belongs to Me >                   7:57
5. Loose Lucy >                          8:10
6. Matilda Mother >                      2:29
7. Tomorrow Never Knows >                6:21
8. Matilda Mother >                      3:58
9. Big Boss Man >                        5:54
10. Dark Star jam >                       4:31
11. Easy Answers >                       10:38
12. Eyes of the World                    14:33
Total Time : [79:37]

2nd Set:
Disc #2:
1. Dead Air                              0:41
2. Blackbird@                            4:51
3. El Paso@                              7:13
4. Victim Or The Crime@ >                9:22
5. Brown-Eyed Women >                    6:21
6. (Fade-out)                            0:13
Total Time : [28:42]

Disc #3:
1. (Fade-in)                             0:14
2. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl >      6:45
3. Help On The Way >                     4:07
4. Slipknot! >                           4:12
5. Bass/Drums >                          3:40
6. Wharf Rat >                          11:38
7. Two Djinn > Corrina Jam >            13:34
8. Franklin's Tower                     11:58
9. (Silence)                             0:04
10. Bob Weir Interview                   14:22
Total Time : [70:34]

Recorded by Jon Dixon
Sonic Studios DS6 mics->Sony D7 DAT 
Standing a few feet in front of Soundboard
Mics mounted on taper's spectacle frames in true stealth mode


Smiler says:

The DAT>CD>CD>CD discs that I received had an overlap between
discs #2 & #3. After extracting with EAC (twice, comparing
the extracted wave files from each extraction), I used Cool
Edit Pro to rejoin, losing the fade-out / overlap / fade-in.
I also retracked the entire show. And I reduced the silent
sections at the end of each set. No other editing was performed.

(NB The sample values were not identical in the overlap area.
Possibly because an earlier CD>CD copy was resampled, rather
than a digital copy).

If rejoining to longer media (ie DVD) the last track of
disc #2, and the first track of disc #3 should be omitted, as
these are fades added to make the individual discs smoother.
I verified .wav file lengths with shntool after all the retracking,
and all is good :-)

The Bob Weir interview was converted from an mp3 downloaded from ebong.org
The volume level of the interview was much much louder than the rest of
the disc; I had to reduce the sample values to 25% to make the volume
comparable. I converted to 32-bit and used CEP to restore clipped audio
before the volume reduction, as the conversion to mp3 and back to wav
had a whole lot of clipping (still has plenty, but much easier on the ears
than at the original high volume).

22nd July 2002
alimac@netcomuk.co.uk
