Grateful Dead
Pico Acid Test
Carthay Studios,
Los Angeles, CA
March 19, 1966


Source: Soundboard - provided by Paul Scotton (MSR > R > D > CDR > EAC > CD Wave > Flac)


01   //Viola Lee Blues
02   //One Kind Favor
03   I Know You Rider
04   You See A Broken Heart
05   It's A Sin
06   tuning
07   Beat It On Down The Line
08   Heads//Up
09   PA complaints, noodling
10   Next Time You See Me
11   ice cream banter
12   Slow R and B instrumental
//Death Don't Have No Mercy
In The Midnight Hour//



Notes:

This is a remaster of shn id 81951.

Paul had heard the way that I had ewmastered a QMS show and wondered whether it might possible to do the same for this.  It is a typical Bear mix with vocals in one channel and instruments in the other.  So I agreed to see what could be done.

First I joined all the files together and loaded it into iZotope RX 8 Advanced.  It is possible to split tracks into component parts and I ended up with four stereo files, vocals, bass, percussion and other instruments.  This effectively gave me eight channels to work with.

I then loaded these four tracks into the multi-channel module of Adobe Audition 3 and set about adjusting levels track by track until I was reasonably happy with what I had.  A mixdown was then made which I loaded into RX 8.  I sent Paul a sample for him to listen to and he thought it sound ok but asked whether it might be possible to make the sound of Pigpen's organ more prominent as it was very low in the original mix.  After several attempts I decided that the best way would ptobably be to add some eq. It has worked to some extent but not as much as we would like. I also eq'd the bass a little too.

"Heads Up" has a cut around 2:36, the two parts have been crossfaded together

I also removed quite a number of clicks.



We think that this sounds much better overall, the mix now gives a better listening experience.


Thanks to Paul for providing the original recording and his help with this project.


The most surprising thing to me about this Acid Test is that Tiny Tim was billed to appear, whether he did I don't know.



remastered by SIRMick
October 2021


shntool output

    length     expanded size    cdr  WAVE problems  fmt   ratio  filename
    11:48.30      124961804 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5233  gd1969-03-19t01.flac
     4:17.48       45447740 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5259  gd1969-03-19t02.flac
     2:40.71       28391036 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5364  gd1969-03-19t03.flac
     3:16.62       34720268 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4924  gd1969-03-19t04.flac
     3:13.67       34202828 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4856  gd1969-03-19t05.flac
     1:32.68       16388780 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4256  gd1969-03-19t06.flac
     4:06.27       43457948 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5317  gd1969-03-19t07.flac
     4:05.14       43250972 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5433  gd1969-03-19t08.flac
     2:12.55       23414204 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4249  gd1969-03-19t09.flac
     2:57.11       31248716 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4862  gd1969-03-19t10.flac
     1:46.07       18714908 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4513  gd1969-03-19t11.flac
     7:46.38       82291820 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5702  gd1969-03-19t12.flac
     6:03.28       64099100 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4902  gd1969-03-19t13.flac
    10:44.25      113660444 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4964  gd1969-03-19t14.flac
    66:32.26      704250568 B                            0.5114  (14 files)

flac fingerprints:
gd1969-03-19t01.flac:a62c083963804da22afb0c907f03f2c8
gd1969-03-19t02.flac:d5a999584459e43e690b8bd9b37c376d
gd1969-03-19t03.flac:63fb9717474f03cd524c8544794aaa7c
gd1969-03-19t04.flac:e262e2d29eb106d9a66c02d55683d4dc
gd1969-03-19t05.flac:d58cc64fc586aeefbbb1e7d866ff55f3
gd1969-03-19t06.flac:086a155bd3119608764a0ec6cc799da5
gd1969-03-19t07.flac:2a4289b88842ff69dccd0b4ddefe861a
gd1969-03-19t08.flac:9b19286a50499b7759e82144d51c3ca4
gd1969-03-19t09.flac:a11e2202bd875740287435e22e368e30
gd1969-03-19t10.flac:a24d87371780a2a67c26d4df2a897372
gd1969-03-19t11.flac:20b4712cfa185b26cb168bfde7c55541
gd1969-03-19t12.flac:fefc024f923bbfc3c457cc873e833a78
gd1969-03-19t13.flac:00e1e64479c23890bf6d0879c82ed23f
gd1969-03-19t14.flac:8907b19850bd7d5a4e86e613fcd37fe9


