Grateful Dead
08/28/1988 (SUNDAY)
Autzen Stadium - University of Oregon
Eugene, OR

Source: Healy SBD Ultramix Patch > Sony D5 > MSC(TDK MA-XG90 Type IV Cassettes).
Transfer: MSC playback on Nakamichi DR2 > gold connector shielded 3ft RCA monster cable > Audiophile 2496 soundcard /P4 2 GHz > recorded as 24 bit/48 KHz WAV using Wavelab 5.
Mastering: Wavelab 5.0 (24/48 files rendered to 16 bit/44.1 KHz using Waves L3 Multimaximizer with hi resolution CD rendering settings (threshold -2 dB / ceiling -0.1 dB / type I dither / ultra shaping) > tracking with CDWAV 1.9 > 16 bit FLAC.
Transfer and encoding by C. Ladner.

DISC I - Set I
01  tuning  [01:34]
02  Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo  [07:39]
03  Little Red Rooster  [10:26]
04  Friend Of The Devil  [10:26]
05  Stuck In Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again  [11:34]
06  Foolish Heart  [08:57]
07  Victim Or The Crime   [05:26]
08  Don't Ease Me In  [03:29]
Set II  
09  tuning  [02:50]
10  Jack Straw >  [06:11]
11  Bertha  [06:56]
TOTAL TIME:  75:29

DISC II - Set II (cont'd)
01  Truckin' >  [07:44]
02  Terrapin Station >  [11:09]
03  Drums >  [08:32]
04  Space >  [06:07]
05  The Other One >  [06:14]
06  Wharf Rat >  [08:10]
07  Throwing Stones >  [08:49]
08  Not Fade Away  [07:25]
09  pre-encore tuning/crowd  [00:35]
Encore
10  Knockin' On Heaven's Door  [09:29]
TOTAL TIME:  74:17

Comments:
Energetic upbeat Jack Straw > Bertha kicks off a great second set.
Much thanks to the provider of the MSC's who for various reasons wishes to remain anonymous.

Dry sounding matrix VERY HEAVY on the vocals, particularly Brent who is by far the loudest - WATCH OUT for some near ear-splitting profanity during Red Rooster.  If your kid doesn't know the S- and the F=word, they will.

Compared to the already very clean TMNSP source of this show that circulates, this one has a more high end and doesn't have any of the dropouts (Half Step) or static (Friend Of The Devil) noted in the info file.  Tape noise is almost non-detectable and NO noise reduction, either pre- or post-transfer, was used.

The tape flip in "Foolish Heart" (05:12 - 05:19) was patched from the TMNSP source which is itself missing almost 45 seconds of music from this song (starting at 04:29 on the previously circulated source) which is present on this new source.  The TMSNP source happens to have a portion of the brief segment missing from this source's first set tape flip including the start of the third verse which I spliced in using Wavelab.  This suggests that someone else was patched into the SBD and has a MSC unique from this source.

For the second set, I crossfaded the flip during Space so that it is audibly transparent.  Oddly enough on both this new source and TMNSP source it sounds like there is an identical pause on this recording  at the tail end of Not Fade Away > encore break.

The first time I transferred the MSC of the second set I noticed there were infrequent mild transient fluctuations in pitch which I had attributed to a battery issue at the time of the recording, however, I fastforwarded/rewinded the tape a few times, and played it back again a few weeks later, and the  fluctuations that I heard on the first transfer are no longer apparent so I'm guessing that the playback somehow "lubed" the tape mechanism back to health, or the lower humidity or some other random thing.   I did the same thing to the first set tape and retransferred it even though I didn't hear any pitch fluctations on the intial transfer.

SHNTOOL LEN OUTPUT:
    length     expanded size   cdr  WAVE  probs   filename
     1:34.32      16656908     ---   --    -xx    gd1988-08-28d1t01.flac
     7:38.55      80920604     ---   --    -xx    gd1988-08-28d1t02.flac
    10:26.06     110440556     ---   --    -xx    gd1988-08-28d1t03.flac
    10:25.55     110379404     ---   --    -xx    gd1988-08-28d1t04.flac
    11:34.31     122494556     ---   --    -xx    gd1988-08-28d1t05.flac
     8:56.49      94665692     ---   --    -xx    gd1988-08-28d1t06.flac
     5:26.20      57553484     ---   --    -xx    gd1988-08-28d1t07.flac
     3:29.36      36952316     ---   --    -xx    gd1988-08-28d1t08.flac
     2:50.32      30063308     ---   --    -xx    gd1988-08-28d1t09.flac
     6:11.39      65536172     ---   --    -xx    gd1988-08-28d1t10.flac
     6:55.64      73356572     ---   --    -xx    gd1988-08-28d1t11.flac
     7:44.20      81896684     ---   --    -xx    gd1988-08-28d2t01.flac
    11:09.17     118051628     ---   --    -xx    gd1988-08-28d2t02.flac
     8:32.49      90432092     ---   --    -xx    gd1988-08-28d2t03.flac
     6:07.34      64818812     ---   --    -xx    gd1988-08-28d2t04.flac
     6:14.50      66091244     ---   --    -xx    gd1988-08-28d2t05.flac
     8:10.28      86501900     ---   --    -xx    gd1988-08-28d2t06.flac
     8:49.17      93355628     ---   --    -xx    gd1988-08-28d2t07.flac
     7:24.61      784651