Grateful Dead
Friday, November 9, 1979
Buffalo Auditorium
Buffalo, New York

https://jerrybase.com/events/19791109-01
https://etreedb.org/lookup_show.php?shows_key=1200


Soundboard + Audience Matrix 1644
Release:  Chapin002 - 2025-01-30
gd1979-11-09.Buffalo,NY.mtx.chapin.flac16


Set One
01. crowd
02. Albama Getaway >
03. The Promised Land
04. They Love Each Other
05. Cassidy
06. Loser
07. Lazy Lightnin' >
08. Supplication
09. Althea
10. Easy to Love You
11. Jack Straw

Set Two
12. Dancin' in the Streets >
13. Franklin's Tower
14. Estimated Prophet  >
15. He's Gone >
16. Jam (Gloria) >
17. Drums  >
18. Space  >
19. Wharf Rat  >
20. I Need a Miracle  >
21. Bertha  >
22. Good Lovin'
23. Encore: U.S. Blues


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Audience Source:
gd1979-11-09.079702.Buffalo,NY.aud.unk.flac16
https://etreedb.org/shn/79702

Audience tape of unknown lineage
by Andrew F. November 2006.


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Soundboard Source:
gd1979-11-09.150448.Buffalo,NY.sbd.gems.flac16
https://etreedb.org/shn/150448

Speed Corrections by Jason Chastain; Audio Mastering by Jamie Waddell


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Matrix Notes

This is my second Grateful Dead matrix release, but first try at a full show. This date has no other matrix release yet and I felt the soundboard could benefit. I was not familiar with this show before now but I love Fall '79. The show is widely known and well regarded with some big highlights including a hot Jack Straw and unique Dancin' > Frankin's transition. I had originally planned to use the Bob Wagner audience source for this since it is the most recent transfer and is very high quality with minimal pitch/speed issues. After auditioning all the sources and making some test mixes I chose the 'unknown/AndrewF' source because it is a much more upfront and lively capture from down on the floor. It adds real depth to the sbd transients, whereas the Wagner blend felt more like just adding ambience. The crowd energy on the 'unknown' audience is huge and it has a nice stereo image. It took far more work to properly align this source though and I found a few small 3-4s segments of serious tape stretching or degradation. The soundboard source is very good. Nicely speed/pitch corrected and mastered. The only changes I made was reducing the stereo spread to %60 with MUtility to match the audience, and a +3db EQ at 80hz. I made no other changes or edits to this source besides removing the existing patches and replacing them with the aud source. All speed/pitch/edits were made to the audience source only. On the audience I added a -6db high-pass filter EQ at 20hz due to the intense stomping/clapping. The blend between sources is about ~55sbd/45aud  (RMS).

Software/Tools:  Audacity 3.7.1, Melda MUtilities Free suite

Material from this date is part of the following official release:  http://www.deaddisc.com/disc/Road_Trips_1_1_Fall_1979.htm


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> shntool len (gci *.flac | select -exp name)

    length     expanded size    cdr  WAVE problems  fmt   ratio  filename
     0:55.57        9836116 B   -b-   --   ---xx   flac  0.5396  GD79-11-09.Buffalo,NY.mtx.chapin.01.Crowd.flac
     6:12.58       65757260 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6555  GD79-11-09.Buffalo,NY.mtx.chapin.02.Alabama Getaway.flac
     4:43.46       50028684 B   -b-   --   ---xx   flac  0.6602  GD79-11-09.Buffalo,NY.mtx.chapin.03.Promised Land.flac
     7:58.48       84432388 B   -b-   --   ---xx   flac  0.6290  GD79-11-09.Buffalo,NY.mtx.chapin.04.They Love Each Other.flac
     6:44.10       71289164 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6266  GD79-11-09.Buffalo,NY.mtx.chapin.05.Cassidy.flac
     8:22.74       88727948 B   -b-   --   ---xx   flac  0.6337  GD79-11-09.Buffalo,NY.mtx.chapin.06.Loser.flac
     4:02.19       42734536 B   -b-   --   ---xx   flac  0.6497  GD79-11-09.Buffalo,NY.mtx.chapin.07.Lazy Lightnin'.flac
     5:29.64       58186044 B   -b-   --   ---xx   flac  0.6529  GD79-11-09.Buffalo,NY.mtx.chapin.08.Supplication.flac
    11:45.47      124472416 B   -b-   --   ---xx   flac  0.5974  GD79-11-09.Buffalo,NY.mtx.chapin.09.Althea.flac
     4:18.48       45624432 B   -b-   --   ---xx   flac  0.6178  GD79-11-09.Buffalo,NY.mtx.chapin.10.Easy To Love You.flac
     6:08.36       65000120 B   -b-   --   ---xx   flac  0.6552  GD79-11-09.Buffalo,NY.mtx.chapin.11.Jack Straw .flac
    12:57.16      137100476 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6458  GD79-11-09.Buffalo,NY.mtx.chapin.12.Dancin' in the Streets.flac
    11:46.62      124685300 B   -b-   --   ---xx   flac  0.6462  GD79-11-09.Buffalo,NY.mtx.chapin.13.Franklin's Tower.flac
    12:54.58      136669316 B   -b-   --   ---xx   flac  0.6149  GD79-11-09.Buffalo,NY.mtx.chapin.14.Estimated Prophet.flac
    11:06.26      117543596 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5997  GD79-11-09.Buffalo,NY.mtx.chapin.15.He's Gone.flac
     8:22.48       88665740 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6528  GD79-11-09.Buffalo,NY.mtx.chapin.16.Jam.flac
    11:20.30      120022604 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5873  GD79-11-09.Buffalo,NY.mtx.chapin.17.Drums.flac
     2:59.58       31712060 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5750  GD79-11-09.Buffalo,NY.mtx.chapin.18.Space.flac
    10:57.05      115906604 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6035  GD79-11-09.Buffalo,NY.mtx.chapin.19.Wharf Rat.flac
     3:57.47       41917388 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6412  GD79-11-09.Buffalo,NY.mtx.chapin.20.I Need a Miracle.flac
     6:36.49       69969692 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6258  GD79-11-09.Buffalo,NY.mtx.chapin.21.Bertha.flac
     6:57.16       73597248 B   -b-   --   ---xx   flac  0.6425  GD79-11-09.Buffalo,NY.mtx.chapin.22.Good Lovin'.flac
     5:31.18       58431240 B   -b-   --   ---xx   flac  0.6516  GD79-11-09.Buffalo,NY.mtx.chapin.23.US Blues.flac
   172:10.41     1822310372 B                            0.6270  (23 files)



