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 on January 13-14, 2021.


**From Deadlists.com **

Band 	Grateful Dead
Venue 	Winterland Arena
Location 	San Francisco, CA
Date 	10/20/74 - Sunday 	posters 	tickets, passes & laminates
One 	Cold Rain And Snow [5:29] ;
Mama Tried [2:26] ;
Deal [4:43] ;
Beat It On Down The Line [3:16] ;
Loser [7:13] ;
Jack Straw [5:24] ;
Tennessee Jed [8:03] ;
El Paso [4:13] ;
Brokedown Palace [6:19] ;
China Cat Sunflower [8:54] >
I Know You Rider [5:32] ;
Around And Around [5:05] Set 1.5: Seastones
Two 	Playing In The Band [13:42] >
Drums [4:20] >
Not Fade Away [14:09] >
The Other One Jam >
Drums [5:17] >
The Other One [12:18] >
Wharf Rat [9:06] >
Playing In The Band [6:38]
Three 	Good Lovin' [12:10] ;
It Must Have Been The Roses [5:38] ;
The Promised Land [3:15] ;
Eyes Of The World >
Slipknot! >
Stella Blue >
Sugar Magnolia
Encore 	Johnny B. Goode
Encore Two 	Half Step >
Bid You Goodnight
Comments 	Sets 2, 3 and the encores with Mickey Hart.
Recordings 	280 AUD: the complete show including Seastones circulates in truly excellent AUD (often labeled SBD) as well as complete SBD.
Download/Listen Sources

    Lineage: 16 track "truck monitor mix" > 2 track m
    Lineage: 16 track "truck monitor mix" > 2 track m
    SBD>7" 1/2 track 7.5 IPS Master Reel
    Multitrack MR>2 track mixdown>?R>R>CD
    Soundboard


********** 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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    47:41.675     824162612 B   cxx   h-   ---xx   flac  0.6026  gd1974-10-20-1B.flac
    40:46.933     704716904 B   cxx   h-   ---xx   flac  0.6821  gd1974-10-20-2A.flac
    45:20.335     783456614 B   cxx   h-   ---xx   flac  0.6832  gd1974-10-20-2B.flac
    45:21.256     783721790 B   cxx   h-   ---xx   flac  0.6678  gd1974-10-20-3A.flac
    39:30.425     682682534 B   cxx   h-   ---xx   flac  0.6644  gd1974-10-20-3B.flac
    43:36.212     753469064 B   cxx   h-   ---xx   flac  0.6407  gd1974-10-20-4A.flac
    38:49.897     671010524 B   cxx   h-   ---xx   flac  0.6529  gd1974-10-20-4B.flac
    44:40.530     771992822 B   cxx   h-   ---xx   flac  0.6407  gd1974-10-20-5A.flac
    41:43.325     720957674 B   cxx   h-   ---xx   flac  0.6292  gd1974-10-20-5B.flac
   437:36.292    7561812854 B                            0.6477  (10 files)

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gd1974-10-20-1B.flac:a581fafd7063ba9f26eb17d6c1c25579
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