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=7/22/84

Band 	Grateful Dead
Venue 	Ventura County Fairgrounds
Location 	Ventura, CA
Date 	7/22/84 - Sunday 	posters 	tickets, passes & laminates
One 	Dancing In The Street [9:01] > Bertha [6:20] ; My Brother Esau [4:43] ; Loser [7:01] ; Cassidy [5:52] ; Ramble On Rose [7:27] ; Hell In A Bucket [6:20] > Keep Your Day Job [4:23]
Two 	Samson And Delilah [7:20] ; Ship Of Fools [7:10] ; I Just Want To Make Love To You [4:57] > Man Smart (Woman Smarter) [5:54] ; Terrapin Station [12:50] > Drums [9:27] > Space [11:07] > Morning Dew [10:36] > Throwing Stones [8:29] > Not Fade Away [9:46]
Encore 	In The Midnight Hour [4:17] > Brokedown Palace [5:24]
Comments
Recordings
Master recording source(s): PCM Master
Download Sources

    2 Beyer M160 & 1 Sennheiser 421 Microphones > Nak
    Nakamichi CM300s w/CP4 shotgun caps > Sony WM-D6C
    Sony ECM-939LT (dead center, halfway between sbd
    flac16 SBD -> PCM -> Dat
    SBD> Cass Master> Dat
    sbd> Cass Master> dats> wav> shn w/seek

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
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    44:47.843     774098738 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6574  gd1984-07-22-1A.flac
    43:02.215     743678108 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6626  gd1984-07-22-1B.flac
    47:26.532     819801188 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6626  gd1984-07-22-2A.flac
    45:44.691     790470914 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6459  gd1984-07-22-2B.flac
   181:01.280    3128048948 B                            0.6571  (4 files)

gd1984-07-22-1A.flac:2c017bac174f90cec443ca53bc56533c
gd1984-07-22-1B.flac:91a56914964f928f1b4f2903a9fa4b60
gd1984-07-22-2A.flac:d44cb3e64bdf6aeb71f391d02bbcf677
gd1984-07-22-2B.flac:895959dfdebacb7cba832df95e96c87c

3db5233c02199ef14be72aa1c0f098df *gd1984-07-22-1A.flac
652b775db61e354c93f77d9454b02347 *gd1984-07-22-1B.flac
a9d87e409145741431c581f38c60bb7a *gd1984-07-22-2A.flac
1175426af7e3b4f041175eb9a61fb18c *gd1984-07-22-2B.flac