Grateful Dead
02/21/1971
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 > WBOTB Master DAT (DAT-1).
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 C.Ladner.  
Seeded by the Green Mountain Bros. at bt.etree.org, September 2007.

Disc I - Set I
01  Cold Rain And Snow
02  Me And Bobby McGee
03  "Where's Mickey Hart?"  >
04  Loser
05  Easy Wind
06  Playing In The Band
07  Bertha
08  Me And My Uncle
09  Ripple, take 1
10  Ripple
11  Next Time You See Me
12  Sugar Magnolia
13  Greatest Story Ever Told >
14  Johnny B. Goode

Disc II - Set II
01  China Cat Sunflower >
02  I Know You Rider
03  Bird Song
04  Cumberland Blues
05  I'm A King Bee
06  Beat It On Down The Line
07  Wharf Rat

Disc III - Set II (cont'd)
01  Truckin'
02  Casey Jones
03  Good Lovin' >
04  Drums >
05  Good Lovin' >
06  Uncle John's Band 

Comments:
There are two anomalous frequency peaks throughout both sets and on previous sources.  The first is centered between 7 and 8K with a second between 15.5 and 16.3K.  The exact frequencies varied between each song during the first set while there were only differences between reel flips in the second set.  This required mastering each section with a separate Waves Q10 paragraphic eq setting with supernotch set for the involved frequencies.   Also there is some degradation in tape quality around the margins of the tape flip during Wharf Rat.  The flip in Wharf Rat was crossfaded.  All editing and mastering was done on 24/96 file sets prior to cd-audio rendering with MBIT+.

SHNTOOL LEN OUTPUT:
    length     expanded size   cdr  WAVE problems filename
     7:21.35       77874764    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-21d1t01.flac
     6:48.71       72138236    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-21d1t02.flac
     1:29.14       15732572    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-21d1t03.flac
     7:36.57       80572508    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-21d1t04.flac
     9:21.52       99082748    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-21d1t05.flac
     5:32.15       58600124    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-21d1t06.flac
     6:38.08       70226060    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-21d1t07.flac
     4:56.61       52357916    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-21d1t08.flac
     1:30.55       16005404    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-21d1t09.flac
     6:30.45       68901884    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-21d1t10.flac
     5:24.15       57188924    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-21d1t11.flac
     7:54.09       83634812    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-21d1t12.flac
     4:21.61       46183916    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-21d1t13.flac
     3:22.09       35654012    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-21d1t14.flac
     4:44.74       50271692    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-21d2t01.flac
     6:49.06       72161756    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-21d2t02.flac
     6:40.41       70656476    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-21d2t03.flac
     5:07.37       54241868    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-21d2t04.flac
     9:44.26      103078796    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-21d2t05.flac
     5:04.45       53731484    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-21d2t06.flac
    10:51.32      114911708    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-21d2t07.flac
     8:12.35       86871164    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-21d3t01.flac
     6:24.34       67817612    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-21d3t02.flac
     2:08.43       22680380    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-21d3t03.flac
     4:40.21       49441436    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-21d3t04.flac
     9:47.32      103622108    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-21d3t05.flac
     7:24.62       78467468    ---   --   ---xx   gd1971-02-21d3t06.flac
   166:29.20     1762107828 B                     (totals for 27 files, 0.5166 overall compression ratio)