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
There's wasn't a lot of high end on this tape

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=5/8/84

Band 	Grateful Dead
Venue 	Silva Hall - Hult Center for the Performing Arts
Location 	Eugene, OR
Date 	5/8/84 - Tuesday 	posters 	tickets, passes & laminates
One 	Jack Straw [6:10] ; Cold Rain And Snow [5:57] ; New Minglewood Blues [7:33] ; Candyman [6:04] ; Me And My Uncle [2:56] > Mexicali Blues [5:23] ; Tennessee Jed [7:51] ; Looks Like Rain [#7:11] > Might As Well [4:04]
Two 	Scarlet Begonias [10:52] > Touch Of Grey [5:57] > Man Smart (Woman Smarter) [7:46] ; Terrapin Station > Drums > Space > The Other One > Wharf Rat > I Need A Miracle > Morning Dew
Encore 	Sugar Magnolia > Brokedown Palace
Comments
Recordings
Master recording source(s): Cass Master
Download Sources

    SBD -> Cassette Master -> CD
    Matrix by Hunter Seamons using Final Cut Pro (FLA
    SBD -> Cassette Master -> Cassette (Nakamichi 550
    Audience: Unknown Mics
    Sony ECM-939LT stereo mic > Marantz PMD-340 casse
    SBD> MR> C> DAT> CDR

Contributors 	(Gordon Sharpless)
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
    43:00.255     743113364 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6498  gd1984-05-08-1A.flac
    32:08.133     555302480 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6402  gd1984-05-08-1B.flac
    58:41.030    1014056768 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6159  gd1984-05-08-2A.flac
    48:54.755     845209538 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6221  gd1984-05-08-2B.flac
   182:44.174    3157682150 B                            0.6298  (4 files)

gd1984-05-08-1A.flac:cde5829f2343abb3644881c6abe82d99
gd1984-05-08-1B.flac:206ab46fde06d6c899dc365523909aa6
gd1984-05-08-2A.flac:fa78fbad4881b3088b1a121cb639d758
gd1984-05-08-2B.flac:e02c1f2a9147d2247170c010f684d6c3

2601ca0144de79cf9d9853324db6322c *gd1984-05-08-1A.flac
9a43fbd847a61113cc17898a0c68c540 *gd1984-05-08-1B.flac
62e03a889eb0aafd731cea060ce94ac7 *gd1984-05-08-2A.flac
4c14a4688a6477f9b6062df2dd0c71c0 *gd1984-05-08-2B.flac