The Knudsen Tape Collection is a 5000 cassette collection that is going to
digital FLAC format one entire tape or tape side at a time.

All transfers and numbered releases are "raw" files. They are unedited,
unmastered and untracked @ one digital flac file per tape or tape side.

The cassettes were donated to www.shnflac.net by Jeff Knudsen in 2018.
This is a GEMS Lossless Legs production.

Gear: Nakamichi CR-7A -> Sound Devices MixPre-3M
     Transfer by Jay Haines

Date and contents unconfirmed.  Please listen, look at the photos of the
J-cards and judge for youself. Here's what deadlists.com says occured on this date:

http://deadlists.com/deadlists/showresults.asp?KEY=4/7/84

Band 	Grateful Dead
Venue 	Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre
Location 	Laguna Hills, CA
Date 	4/7/84 - Saturday 	posters 	tickets, passes & laminates
One 	Feel Like A Stranger ; West L.A. Fadeaway ; Me And My Uncle > Mexicali Blues ; Althea ; C C Rider ; Big Railroad Blues ; My Brother Esau ; Touch Of Grey
Two 	Iko Iko [6:28] ; Playing In The Band [11:20] > Uncle John's Band [13:05] > Drums [9:24#] > Spanish Jam [9:53] > The Other One [6:48] > Wharf Rat [8:12] > Throwing Stones [8:56] > Not Fade Away [8:38]
Encore 	One More Saturday Night
Comments
Recordings
Master recording source(s): Cass Master
Download Sources

    source: 3 Beyer M160's > Nak100 > Sony TC-D5M - 1
    SBD -> Cassette Master -> Dat -> CD (shnid=13816)
    sbd>MC>Dat>cdEac >cool edit > shntool > cdwav >sh

Contributors 	(Gordon Sharpless); Raymond Augustine
Caretaker 	Barry Barnes



********** The GEMS Knudsen Tape Project  **********

In 2018, Jeff Knudsen bestowed his tape collection to the AZ GEMS
team for distribution and archiving. We have cherry picked some shows
and released them but have only scratched the surface. The process
of producing a complete and accurate mastered file set is time consuming:
select the show, compare to existing sources, adjust the tape deck,
transfer to digital, speed correct, master, aquire the source ID and
torrent. We realized we would never release most of collection using this
method.

As long as music is on tapes in a closet, it is useless. If it circulates
it is preserved for others and for the future. Rather than go through
the whole file set creation process, we transfer each tape or tape
side as a single digital file. A two tape concert consists either two big
audio files, 1 for each tape or 4 big audio files, one for each side of
the two cassettes.  We transfer professionally using the best gear and
a high quality Analog to Digital device. The Azimuth and Dolby settings
are correct. We release these files for everyone. We do not evaluate
the quality of the source, master it, or track it.

The Knudsen Tape Project is about sharing the tapes.

In each numbered release, along with the digital music files, we
include a photo of the tapes. The goal is to release as many of the
tapes as possible to the website www.shnflac.net.

We think the fruits of this project will become more interesting as time
passes. We believe that access to raw, properly transferred audio will
be of value to both present and future listeners, researchers and others.
Audio mastering technology is moving at breakneck speed. We can only imagine
the future technology that will be available. Having access to unmastered sources
could be invaluable.

HISTORY

The collection was started with a box of tapes Jeff Knudsen recieved
from his friend Dick Latvala in the late 70's. Dick was just a regular
guy in Pahoa, Hawaii and had not yet begun officially working with the
Greatful Dead. Over time, Jeff's collection grew. At that time, tapes were
currency and Jeff had gold. His collection increased to about 5000 coveted
tapes, via mail trades and all night copy-athons. Jeff shared them freely
and widely. If you had a soundboard tape in your collection years ago there
is a good chance it came from Jeff Knudsen.

WHAT CAN I DO WITH IT ?

Every release in this project is from a band that allows it's fans
to trade music non-commercially. We neither add or take away from that
permission. We only ask that you credit the Knudsen Tape Project if you
use the material. We ask nothing else of you and you do not need
to ask permission to use them. Since we ask only for source credit, we would
rather not hear complaints. Take what you need and leave the rest.

LINEAGE QUESTIONS

The notion of documenting lineage is a modern one, or simply one Jeff
did not entertain. We do not have lineage information on most of these
tapes. Any information we have will be in the photo of the tapes.
Some of the tapes sound absolutely fantastic. Others may remind
you of a tape you had long ago.

Now the rest is up to the community, with whom we have absolute faith
in the ability to discern.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Contact shnflac@gmail.com if you need more information.


SHNTOOL output
    length     expanded size    cdr  WAVE problems  fmt   ratio  filename
    40:14.886     695487092 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6521  1984.04.07_1A.flac
    37:16.180     644020028 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6634  1984.04.07_1B.flac
    47:15.010     816482816 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6308  1984.04.07_2A.flac
    43:48.596     757035650 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6502  1984.04.07_2B.flac
   168:34.672    2913025586 B                            0.6481  (4 files)

1984.04.07_1A.flac:ab47aaea11355abf5e240218b98033bb
1984.04.07_1B.flac:53f62865a538dad1923fdb025f881119
1984.04.07_2A.flac:43a7000f486a5e2e4cd925d32b8a6d51
1984.04.07_2B.flac:e5a9f70f0193a326d57456c1649b6b0a

88e4426682cd8ef5dfbe86c6a3341613 *1984.04.07_1A.flac
d7ae800f0350c774a1390ef95bf7d1f8 *1984.04.07_1B.flac
4a42aade38b5eb5c32e3b40dbbe5e070 *1984.04.07_2A.flac
c030e9338bd4c51b58e3a495e07667ee *1984.04.07_2B.flac