The Ark, Boston, MA

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flac16; Remastered version of the SBD -> Master Reel -> Dat -> CD -> Samplitude Professional v9.12 -> FLAC source by TomP; see Info File for details

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Grateful Dead (Charlie Miller > TomP Remaster)
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1969-04-21
The Ark Boston, MA

Source: Dime post by corbett - thanks !!
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=172920

Miller Recording Info:
SBD -> Master Reel -> Dat -> CD

Transfer Info:
CD -> Samplitude Professional v9.12 -> FLAC
(3 Discs Audio / 2 Discs FLAC)

All Transfers and Mastering By Charlie Miller
charliemiller87@earthlink.net November 13, 2007

Patch Info:
Alternate SBD source provides:
Introduction (complete track)
2nd Cryptical Envelopment (1:21 - 6:19)
Dark Star (14:52 - 16:36)
Turn On Your Lovelight (23:56 - end of track)

Notes:
-- Cleaned up numerous flaws and fixed the levels
-- Alligator has a false start
-- Tape runs out during Feedback


Fine new artworks from fastone are included - thanks - Tag&Rename was used to create flac tags from these
Photo also included taken from comment by corbett

Quality: Must be an A++ now
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The original is one of the best GD SBDs Ive heard from this era, one of the last of the setlists mainly
from (IMHO) their great 1968-9 era. It has all the dynamic range preserved, low noise and no processing.
Of the 3 recent Ark shows, the lack of an extra cassette stage in the lineage really shows compared to
the other two (22nd & 23rd). IMHO this one is way the best !!

Huge thanks must go to the original recorder and of course, the great Charlie Miller for his enormous
body of dedicated work and with whom I had an Email exchange, where he gave me a go-ahead.

The work I did was fairly subtle, but the sound of Phil Lesh's bass is restored to closer to it's wonderful
powerful best, whilst the general sound and dynamics are significantly better. Despite the improvement in
the frequency extremes, there has been absolutely no EQ, compression or NR used here, just correcting
recording and venue artifacts, so to my ears it sounds clearer and more dynamic than the Bertha version.

I'm also particularly please with the improvement in the previously poor sounding Lovelight patch.

TomP post on Dime, April 2013...Enjoy !!

Set 1 (61:52)

01 - Introduction (1.29)
02 - Hard To Handle (5.26)
03 - Morning Dew (9.25)
04 - Cryptical Envelopment (1.57) >
05 - Drums (0.39) >
06 - The Other One (9.10) >
07 - Cryptical Envelopment (7.54) >
08 - Sittin' On Top Of The World (3.27)
09 - Alligator (4.06) >
10 - Drums (3.26) >
11 - Jam (7.46) >
12 - Doin' That Rag (7.02)

Set 2 (89:57)

13 - Foxy Lady Jam (3.25)
14 - Dark Star (22.41) >
15 - St. Stephen (6.52) >
16 - The Eleven (10.59) >
17 - Turn On Your Lovelight (25.25)

Encore:
18 - Tuning (1.08)
19 - Viola Lee Blues (13.48) >
20 - Feedback (5.39)

TomP Changes Made (Nero 8):
---------------------------
Phase correction 0.05msec
- louder bass
- generally clearer sound
Further substantial phase inversion and offset correction of Lovelight patch
Cross-mixed all channels (95:5)
- voice and instruments clearer and more to the foreground in the stereo field
- moves the drums from extreme left and right (behind the ear) towards the middle
- a little incidental noise cancellation
Fixed glitches at 0.02 d1tr02, 0.04 ditr02
Corrected balance change 0.42-1.22 d1tr02
Corrected lots of small balance and volume fluctuations
Reduced left channel of most tracks by 3-6% to centre stereo image
Cut 1min+ of no-tuning during Tuning (d3tr01)
Fixed phase inversion in patch at end of Lovelight
Added flac tags

Contrast clause:
The heavily boosted Bertha remaster of the Miller files can be found here:
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=439364

..and samples of that can be compared here:
http://archive.org/details/gd69-04-21.sbd.bertha-ashley.19841.sbeok.shnf




Media Size
805.48 MB(844602044 bytes)
Media Size Uncompressed
0
SHN Disc Count
0
WAV Disc Count
0
Date Circulated
04/21/2013
Entered By
mvernon
Created At
Sun Apr 21 2013 11:15:01 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Updated At
Tue Apr 23 2013 08:06:17 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Checksums
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Grateful Dead - 20 - Feedback.flac:0e84625ae75342af0c5e830720969899
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