Phish
Penny Post
Old Town, ME
01/25/1990

Source: Unknown (likely a boom box)
Taper: owner of the Penny Post (?)
Transfer by Jeff Goldberg: Tascam 112RmkII (playback);
A > D Signal Path: Balanced (+4dBu) XLR outputs > MOTU 8pre

Digital Signal Path: MOTU 8pre > FireWire (IEEE 1394b) > iMac

Digital Audio Workstation: Logic Pro X (10.2.4) for recording, Audacity 2.1.2 for editing, and WaveLab 9 for mastering.

Raw Files
(Set One)
01. Mike's Song >
02. I Am Hydrogen >
03. Weekapaug Groove
04. Carolina
05. Coil
06. Caravan
07. Bouncin'
08. Split Open and Melt
09. Tela
10. Oh Kee Pah >
11. AC/DC Bag
12. Fee >
13. La Grange
(Set Two)
14. Slave to the Traffic Light
15. Possum
16. Curtis Loew
17. YEM (jam cuts badly; cut into opening segment as well)
18. (cut into) Walk Away
19. Lawn Boy
20. Whipping Post
Encores:
21. Suzy Greenberg
22. Communication Breakdown


Re-Mastered Version by Jeff Goldberg
23. Mike's Song >
24. I Am Hydrogen >
25. Weekapaug Groove
26. Carolina
27. Coil
28. (cut into) Caravan
29. Bouncin'
30. Split Open and Melt
31. Tela
32. Oh Kee Pah >
33. AC/DC Bag
34. Fee
35. La Grange
(Set Two)
36. Slave to the Traffic Light
37. Possum
38. (cut into) Curtis Loew
39. (cut into) YEM (jam cuts badly)
40. (cut into) Walk Away
41. Lawn Boy
42. Whipping Post
Encores:
43. Suzy Greenberg
44. Communication Breakdown


Jon Gullotti contacted Phish.net in an effort to get this show circulating and it now does so thanks to him and the work of Jeff Goldberg of The Audio Specialist. Jon acquired this recording on cassette from the Penny Post's owner the week after the show. Part of the second set is missing (the music between YEM's cut jam segment and the cut into Walk Away) because Jon copied over it with live versions of the Grateful Dead's Dark Star and Shakedown (this music was on the beginning of side A of the second tape). According to Phish.com, fan reports noted that Fluffhead was performed at this show, and so it's likely that Fluffhead was one of the songs copied over; it is not clear if more than the remainder of YEM's jam segment, Fluffhead, and part of Walk Away were copied over.

Because the raw recording is so flawed (e.g., Caravan is only a fragment, YEM's jam cuts out, most of Walk Away is missing, and there are cuts at either the beginning or end of numerous songs including Weekapaug, Slave and Loew), I asked Jeff Goldberg to employ his expertise to try to create a more listenable, "remastered" version (Jeff also needed to splice the Coil and AC/DC Bag, pieces of which were on both side A and side B). Jeff's work included adjusting the pitch so that A = 440 Hz; fixing the hiccup and duplicated bar at the beginning of Mike’s Song; evening-out amplitude levels that were never set during the original recording; normalizing amplitude levels to maximize bandwidth and minimize noise floor; equalizing the sound/timbre of each individual track (different parts of the tapes required different EQ curves); eliminating extreme tape hiss from offending tracks; and setting metadata for each track.

If you have any analog to digital questions (or work), feel free to contact Jeff at audiospecialists@icloud.com or on twitter @theaudiopro or google plus at the.audio.ace@gmail.com or facebook.com/theaudiospecialist.

Great thanks to Jon and Jeff for helping get this show into circulation for the first time after more than 26 years. This gives me a little hope that maybe one day my first show will circulate, too. (10/6/89) -charlie@phish.net

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