Grateful Dead
02/20/1971
Capitol Theater
Port Chester, NY 

Source:  7" two track BBD reel w/ Dolby A @ 7 1/2 ips > PCM501ES (beta) > PCM501ES analog out > Dolby A decoder > Apogee filter > analog in PCMF1/PCM501ES analog out > Fostex D5 @ 48 kHz x 2 > WBOTB Master DAT.
Original WBOTB DATs procured & circulated in 1996 by Jace Crouch and Tim Deibert. Thanks to trailmix for providing the lineaged master DAT  for transfer.

Transfer and mastering:
Jace's DAT (48 KHz) playback on Sony PCM-R500, AES digital output > Benchmark DAC1, XLR analog output > Grace Lunatec V3, sample rate at 96 KHz, AES digiout) > AES digital input, professional mode/sync - LynxTwo soundcard in E6400 dual core processor-based PC > HD as 24 bit/96 KHz WAV > Ozone 3.0 > MBIT+ dithering to 16/44.1 KHz WAV > CDWAV 1.9 (tracking) > FLAC (level 8).   Recording, editing and mastering with Wavelab 5.0.  All cables were Mogami Gold 0.3m pro-audio XLR cables.  All components in the transfer/mastering chain were powered from a Cyberpower 1285AVR noise-attenuated uninterruptible AC power supply.  Transfer and mastering by Chris L.  
Seeded by the Green Mountain Bros. at bt.etree.org, June 2007.

Disc I - Set I
01  tuning
02  Casey Jones
03  Me And My Uncle
04  Hard To Handle
05  Bertha
06  Playing In The Band
07  Bird Song
08  Big Boss Man
09  Cryptical Envelopment >
10  Drums >
11  The Other One >
12  Wharf Rat
13  Sugar Magnolia

Disc II - Set II
01  tuning
02  Truckin'
03  Loser
04  Next Time You See Me
05  Greatest Story Ever Told >
06  Johnny B. Goode
07  Ripple
08  Not Fade Away >
09  Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Jam > 
10  Not Fade Away >
11  Turn On Your Lovelight
12  Pigpen Rap (Female companionship rap > Jam > Business rap > Jam) >
13  Lovelight

Comments:
Reel flips and short segments of missing music (Casey Jones, Bird Song, Lovelight) were crossfaded to stealthy seamlessness by sampling the 2-3 missing beat(s) from the same measure in a preceding/following verse/chorus.   All audio editing was done on 24 bit files.

FFT of waveform showed 2 distinct peaks resulting in an annoying whine.  First peak broadly centered around 8100 and a second at roughly 15700 Hz.  These were attenuated using the SuperNotch notch filter preset of Waves Q10 32 bit paragraphic equalizer performed on the 24/96 WAV files prior to Ozone mastering and MBIT 16 bit rendering.

SHNTOOL LEN OUTPUT:
    length     expanded size   cdr  WAVE problems filename
     1:19.74       14109692    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-20d1t01.flac
     5:29.49       58150892    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-20d1t02.flac
     4:28.45       47381084    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-20d1t03.flac
     8:37.23       91252940    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-20d1t04.flac
     6:55.01       73208396    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-20d1t05.flac
     4:49.30       51050204    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-20d1t06.flac
     9:19.54       98734652    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-20d1t07.flac
     5:26.40       57600524    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-20d1t08.flac
     1:57.06       20652956    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-20d1t09.flac
     3:53.38       41190620    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-20d1t10.flac
    10:56.13      115749020    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-20d1t11.flac
     8:28.10       89634764    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-20d1t12.flac
     5:41.53       60277100    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-20d1t13.flac
     1:17.26       13643996    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-20d2t01.flac
     8:29.48       89900540    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-20d2t02.flac
     9:08.60       96808364    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-20d2t03.flac
     4:27.11       47124716    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-20d2t04.flac
     4:10.09       44121212    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-20d2t05.flac
     5:03.22       53500988    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-20d2t06.flac
     5:41.20       60199484    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-20d2t07.flac
     4:43.73       50092940    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-20d2t08.flac
     8:04.52       85499948    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-20d2t09.flac
     1:44.63       18493820    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-20d2t10.flac
     7:18.73       77434940    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-20d2t11.flac
    11:48.40      124985324    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-20d2t12.flac
     6:05.38       64475420    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-20d2t13.flac
   155:26.71     1645274536 B                     (totals for 26 files, 0.4813 overall compression ratio)