Grateful Dead
1980-05-10
Hartford Civic Center
Hartford, CT
https://jerrybase.com/events/19800510-01
https://etreedb.org/lookup_show.php?shows_key=1233

2 Source Matrix by Brock Chapin [brrrock@bsky.social] 2025-01-25
Partial Second Set Only

Set 2:
s2t01: China Cat Sunflower >
s2t02: I Know You Rider >
s2t03: crowd
s2t04: Feel Like A Stranger >
s2t05: Comes A Time >
s2t06: Estimated Prophet >
s2t07: He's Gone >
s2t08: Uncle John's Band >
s2t09: Drumz >
s2t10: Not Fade Away >

Matrix Notes:
Soundboard source contains only the first 8 songs of the second set and only that material is included in this release. That source ends at 07:38 of "Not Fade Away" but I include the entire track so the last ~1 minute is the audience source only. This is my first attempt at a matrix mix. My approach was to focus on the wonderful Barry Glassberg audience recording. Their tape is clear, uncolored, and captures the wild room energy of a Saturday night on the East Coast Spring 1980 tour. I didn't apply any EQ or changes of any kind to the audience source. I kept the same track numbers, track length, and names.

The 16bit soundboard source is crisp and dry with minimal ambience. The stereo spread is very wide with the individual drummers panned to either side giving it that clunky feel that is common on early 80s soundboards. Both sources include a cassette generation so there is some pitch/speed variation, but more so on the soundboard source. I made many small manual edits and pitch/speed adjustments to the sbd to keep them in sync. I applied a 6db EQ boost at 80hz. I reduced the stereo spread to %23 to closely match the audience. I blended the soundboard level by ear (near 50/50) to enhance the audience and not dominate.

Both sources converted to 32bit float at 96khz and then exported to 24bit 96khz
software:  Audacity 3.7.1 + Melda MUtility Plugin.

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Audience:  https://db.etreedb.org/shn/110832
gd80-05-10.110832.fob.nak700.glassberg.motb0161.flac24

MOTB Release: 0161 24/96
Release Date: 2010-11-22
Analog Audience Source: FOB Master Cassettes (MAC)
Medium Stock Brands: 3 x Maxell UDXLII
Analog Lineage: 2 X Nak CM700 with eq > Sony TC-D5M with Dolby > MAC
Analog Sound Preservation: MAC >> Nakamichi CR7a => Korg MR-1000 >> DSF [1-bit 5.6448 MHz Stereo] >> Korg MR-1000 => Korg AudioGate >> WAV [24/96]
Taped By: Barry Glassberg; Transfer By: Adam Egert; Mastering By: Derek McCabe

Notes:
Patch for tape flip at beginning of He's Gone (1:28 - 1:24): Bob Morris (FOB) Sony ECM-990
Cassette Master (Nakamichi DR-1) > Korg MR-1000 (1-bit/5.6MHz) > Audiogate (1-bit/5.6MHz > 24/96

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Soundboard:  https://db.etreedb.org/shn/91938
gd1980-05-10.sbd-s2.miller.91938.sbeok.flac16

Recording Info:
SBD -> Cassette Master -> Dat -> Sound Forge -> WAV

Patch Info:
(3) Nakamichi 300 -> Cassette Master -> CD (shnid=83063) supplies:
He's Gone (0:03 - 0:12)


Notes: Thanks to Joe B. Jones for his help with the pitch correction

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    length     expanded size    cdr  WAVE problems  fmt   ratio  filename
     8:06.976     280498136 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6219  gd80-05-10.mtx.chapin.s201.flac
     6:43.401     232359176 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6228  gd80-05-10.mtx.chapin.s202.flac
     0:24.092      13877006 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.5823  gd80-05-10.mtx.chapin.s203.flac
     7:49.355     270348434 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6073  gd80-05-10.mtx.chapin.s204.flac
     8:45.058     302433668 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.5942  gd80-05-10.mtx.chapin.s205.flac
    10:49.307     374000996 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6081  gd80-05-10.mtx.chapin.s206.flac
    14:46.595     510678944 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6098  gd80-05-10.mtx.chapin.s207.flac
    11:36.508     401188838 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6198  gd80-05-10.mtx.chapin.s208.flac
    10:55.533     377587244 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.5987  gd80-05-10.mtx.chapin.s209.flac
     9:09.821     316697216 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6206  gd80-05-10.mtx.chapin.s210.flac
    89:06.648    3079669658 B                            0.6108  (10 files)
                            0.6206  (1 file)







