In 2018 Jeff Knudsen donated his 5000+ cassette tape collection to www.shnflac.net.
The ensuing GEMS Lossless Legs production is releasing each of these tapes as raw transfers in digital format, one file per cassette side.

Transfer info: Nakamichi CR-7A (Rebuilt by ESL August 2019) -> Sound Devices MixPre-3M
Transfer by: Jay Haines
Date on label: October 17, 1984

Here's what deadlists.com says occurred on this date and the sources in circulation at the time of this seed.
This release may or may not be one of these sources.
This entry is included as an aid to future researchers.
As always, listen, look at the pictures and judge for yourself.

Band 	Grateful Dead
Venue 	Brendan Byrne Arena
Location 	East Rutherford , NJ
Date 	10/17/84 - Wednesday 	posters 	tickets, passes & laminates
One 	Iko Iko >
The Promised Land ;
West L.A. Fadeaway ;
My Brother Esau ;
Brown Eyed Women ;
New Minglewood Blues ;
Row Jimmy ;
Looks Like Rain >
Might As Well
Two 	Help On The Way >
Slipknot! >
Franklin's Tower ;
Man Smart (Woman Smarter) ;
Terrapin Station >
Drums >
Space >
The Other One >
Truckin' >
Stella Blue >
Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad
Encore 	Brokedown Palace
Comments
Recordings
Master recording source(s): Nak 550 Cass Master FOB center w3/441's
Download/Listen Sources

    source: 2 Beyer M160 & 1 Sennheiser 421 microphon
    flac16/48kHz ; Source from Doug Oade: 90 degree,
    Master Audience Recorded By Steve Hill, Transfer
    Master Audience Recorded By Steve Hill, Transfer
    Beyer M88>Sony D5
    Nakamichi CM-300 (CP-1) x2 > Cassette Master (Son
    Nakamichi CM-300 (CP-1) x2 > Cassette Master (Son
    3 Nak CM700 > Sony TC-D5M > Maxell MX tape
    Set 1: SBD -> Master Cassette -> ? -> Cassette (D
    AUD(Nak 300Â?s)>MC>DAT>CD via Paul B encoded by W
    SBD > MC>DAT via J.Powell encoded by C.Ladner.

Contributors 	(Gordon Sharpless)
Caretaker 	Barry Barnes email update
********** 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
    44:01.052     760622894 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6638  gd1984-10-17-1A.flac
    46:53.409     810261968 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6649  gd1984-10-17-1B.flac
    46:45.200     807897536 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6863  gd1984-10-17-2A.flac
    41:51.076     723190058 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6950  gd1984-10-17-2B.flac
   179:30.737    3101972456 B                            0.6772  (4 files)

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gd1984-10-17-1B.flac:7297a714a8701901c21fd9fb4f216d79
gd1984-10-17-2A.flac:be75068071193d8c888059a42552afad
gd1984-10-17-2B.flac:69bb9aebcd6dadf540d1dc96b755c075

45ce36c749d778e664f290e3fd6957b8 *gd1984-10-17-1A.flac
0788864368e9b0d4344946c570568b8e *gd1984-10-17-1B.flac
6dae0356de89658cca9ca8869e2bebea *gd1984-10-17-2A.flac
e563b3aa4f822b47e8386924ef27fc96 *gd1984-10-17-2B.flac