THE BETTYS RESTORATION PROJECT

Upon recognizing that the Betty tapes were Dolby and DBX encoded I gave out samples of the reencoded tape samples to the inner circle. When I got the original tapes to decode I decided to make safety copies with nothing decoded. It seemed to me that the technology would eventually improve and someday better copies could yet be made. I had a Japanese musician friend send me a Sony D-10 pro DAT deck at a wholesale price, there were no versions of this deck in the States at this point of time. Thus, I made copies with no decoding along with the decoded versions on PCM Beta. The versions I sent out to collectors at this point in 1987 were from the Beta sources decoded. I wore out a lot of decks making copies.

Being a long time friend of Dick Latvala I told him about Betty's tapes being auctioned off. He thought at first I was full of shit. At that time I tried to get the tapes back to the Dead... I'm glad that eventually that happened. Meanwhile my DAT copies sat in their boxes. I made a very few copies of those tapes for a couple friends. Now in 2021 Matt Smith has gone to great lengths to repair and playback these DAT's. I thank him greatly for his hard work in striving for the greatest fidelity offered in these tapes. Turn up the volume and dance to these new copies you crazy hippies, I know I am. Oh yes, there is more music to come from Matt and I.

Steven Martin


This has turned out to be a restoration project as DAT tapes from 1987 have turned out to be extremely fragile.  Iâ€™ve painstakingly repaired and spliced numerous tapes for them in order to play.  I manually rewind instead of using the deck just to insure the tape wonâ€™t snap and sometimes theyâ€™ve snapped just doing that.  What Iâ€™m hearing is IMHO the best sounding transfers of the Bettyâ€™s.  Incredibly clean with crisp highs and better low end.

Matt Smith

@~@~@~@


Grateful Dead
Manhattan Center
New York, NY
04/06/1971

Source: Original transfer Betty Cantor Jackson;s Master Reels ((7" 1/2 track @ 7 1/2 ips w/ dolby A))  > Sony TCD-D10 Pro DAT (Oade Brothers mod) > DAT (44k)
              Final transfer: DAT > Sony PCM-2600 > Tascam DA-3000 > wav 16/44.1
Lineage:  wav 16/44.1 > iZotope RX 9 Advanced > CD Wave > flac 16


Set I

01   Bertha
02   Beat It On Down The Line
03   It Hurts Me Too
04   Me And Bobby McGee
05   Dire Wolf
06   Oh Boy
07   I'm A Hog For You Baby
08   Playing In The Band
09   In The Midnight Hour
10   Mama Tried
11   Cumberland Blues
12   Casey Jones


Set II

01   tuning/"You gotta move back!"
02   Greatest Story Ever Told >
03   Johnny B. Goode
04   Loser
05   Good Lovin' >
06   Sugar Magnolia
07   Not Fade Away  >
08   Goin' Down//The Road Feeling Bad >
09   Not Fade Away (reprise) >
10   Truckin'



Notes:

- Pitch corrected
- A number of small dropouts have been repaired
- A small cluster of digital errors in "Truckin" have been patched with shn id 152611
- "PITB" and "Loser" have been patched with Jerry Moore's reel - Thanks to Rob Berger



Original transfer - Steve Martin
Final transfer - Matt Smith
Pitch correction - Scott Clugston
Editing and mastering - SIRMick
December 2021


shntool output:

    length     expanded size    cdr  WAVE problems  fmt   ratio  filename
     9:21.68       99120380 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4726  gd1971-04-06s1t01.flac
     4:24.41       46666076 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4891  gd1971-04-06s1t02.flac
     7:05.08       74988860 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4689  gd1971-04-06s1t03.flac
     8:17.17       87710828 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4662  gd1971-04-06s1t04.flac
     5:20.60       56589164 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4725  gd1971-04-06s1t05.flac
     2:46.25       29341244 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4801  gd1971-04-06s1t06.flac
     5:57.13       63005420 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4625  gd1971-04-06s1t07.flac
     7:53.16       83474876 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4628  gd1971-04-06s1t08.flac
    10:16.00      108662444 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4886  gd1971-04-06s1t09.flac
     3:17.26       34811996 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4866  gd1971-04-06s1t10.flac
     5:25.56       57461756 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5024  gd1971-04-06s1t11.flac
     5:12.18       55079180 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5365  gd1971-04-06s1t12.flac
     5:59.49       63442892 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4115  gd1971-04-06s2t01.flac
     2:51.48       30277340 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5399  gd1971-04-06s2t02.flac
     6:49.50       72265244 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4943  gd1971-04-06s2t03.flac
     9:46.12      103398668 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4613  gd1971-04-06s2t04.flac
    25:00.47      264710588 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4955  gd1971-04-06s2t05.flac
     7:28.53       79151900 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5041  gd1971-04-06s2t06.flac
     3:05.43       32735180 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5145  gd1971-04-06s2t07.flac
     6:11.38       65533820 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4875  gd1971-04-06s2t08.flac
     2:17.55       24296204 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4926  gd1971-04-06s2t09.flac
     9:41.67      102646028 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5380  gd1971-04-06s2t10.flac
   154:30.60     1635370088 B                            0.4866  (22 files)

flac fingerprints:

gd1971-04-06s1t01.flac:15badc68873baf2eeee48977bd552031
gd1971-04-06s1t02.flac:39fd53f81143c1398d3ae3b0fb78364e
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gd1971-04-06s1t10.flac:46ed3d50541b3e8c064a15471ed58836
gd1971-04-06s1t11.flac:419673b3c3374a21e08e6d02c13ea266
gd1971-04-06s1t12.flac:099f4e48cf5193d4f72e09d135f6a287
gd1971-04-06s2t01.flac:fdef0d34f509270352022a3255882700
gd1971-04-06s2t02.flac:557e7f36b2a04a957d43683db3ea7ad0
gd1971-04-06s2t03.flac:09201ccae473b6599271faf3a84c54e3
gd1971-04-06s2t04.flac:d17c7bef6fdcc61c5610574a4cb693b6
gd1971-04-06s2t05.flac:0310378820c68fc9d697780798e696e7
gd1971-04-06s2t06.flac:cb20b4c140b0038d65f0987a743e30e1
gd1971-04-06s2t07.flac:be59ce198bd8aeacbd108b0b9f74b523
gd1971-04-06s2t08.flac:5b1a5406dd2d1045b9b7167cfd7116b6
gd1971-04-06s2t09.flac:abe9e560273116d9c4ea77eddeaa07d2
gd1971-04-06s2t10.flac:2ad897c44b6fef91dd3aa7384bf2fca1


