THE BETTYS RESTORATION PROJECT

Upon recognizing that the Betty tapes were Dolby and DBX encoded I gave out samples of the reencoded tape samples to the inner circle. When I got the original tapes to decode I decided to make safety copies with nothing decoded. It seemed to me that the technology would eventually improve and someday better copies could yet be made. I had a Japanese musician friend send me a Sony D-10 pro DAT deck at a wholesale price, there were no versions of this deck in the States at this point of time. Thus, I made copies with no decoding along with the decoded versions on PCM Beta. The versions I sent out to collectors at this point in 1987 were from the Beta sources decoded. I wore out a lot of decks making copies.

Being a long time friend of Dick Latvala I told him about Betty's tapes being auctioned off. He thought at first I was full of shit. At that time I tried to get the tapes back to the Dead... I'm glad that eventually that happened. Meanwhile my DAT copies sat in their boxes. I made a very few copies of those tapes for a couple friends. Now in 2021 Matt Smith has gone to great lengths to repair and playback these DAT's. I thank him greatly for his hard work in striving for the greatest fidelity offered in these tapes. Turn up the volume and dance to these new copies you crazy hippies, I know I am. Oh yes, there is more music to come from Matt and I.

Steven Martin


This has turned out to be a restoration project as DAT tapes from 1987 have turned out to be extremely fragile.  I’ve painstakingly repaired and spliced numerous tapes for them in order to play.  I manually rewind instead of using the deck just to insure the tape won’t snap and sometimes they’ve snapped just doing that.  What I’m hearing is IMHO the best sounding transfers of the Betty’s.  Incredibly clean with crisp highs and better low end.

Matt Smith

@~@~@~@


Grateful Dead
Manhattan Center
New York, NY
04/06/1971

Source: Original transfer Betty Cantor Jackson;s Master Reels ((7" 1/2 track @ 7 1/2 ips w/ dolby A))  > Sony TCD-D10 Pro DAT (Oade Brothers mod) > DAT (44k)
              Final transfer: DAT > Sony PCM-2600 > Tascam DA-3000 > wav 16/44.1
Lineage:  wav 16/44.1 > iZotope RX 9 Advanced > CD Wave > flac 16


Set I

01   Bertha
02   Beat It On Down The Line
03   It Hurts Me Too
04   Me And Bobby McGee
05   Dire Wolf
06   Oh Boy
07   I'm A Hog For You Baby
08   Playing In The Band
09   In The Midnight Hour
10   Mama Tried
11   Cumberland Blues
12   Casey Jones


Set II

01   tuning/"You gotta move back!"
02   Greatest Story Ever Told >
03   Johnny B. Goode
04   Loser
05   Good Lovin' >
06   Sugar Magnolia
07   Not Fade Away  >
08   Goin' Down//The Road Feeling Bad >
09   Not Fade Away (reprise) >
10   Truckin'



Notes:

- Pitch corrected
- A number of small dropouts have been repaired
- A small cluster of digital errors in "Truckin" have been patched with shn id 152611
- "PITB" and "Loser" have been patched with Jerry Moore's reel - Thanks to Rob Berger



Original transfer - Steve Martin
Final transfer - Matt Smith
Pitch correction - Scott Clugston
Editing and mastering - SIRMick
December 2021


shntool output:

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     4:24.41       46666076 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4891  gd1971-04-06s1t02.flac
     7:05.08       74988860 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4689  gd1971-04-06s1t03.flac
     8:17.17       87710828 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4662  gd1971-04-06s1t04.flac
     5:20.60       56589164 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4725  gd1971-04-06s1t05.flac
     2:46.25       29341244 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4801  gd1971-04-06s1t06.flac
     5:57.13       63005420 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4625  gd1971-04-06s1t07.flac
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     5:25.56       57461756 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5024  gd1971-04-06s1t11.flac
     5:12.18       55079180 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5365  gd1971-04-06s1t12.flac
     5:59.49       63442892 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4115  gd1971-04-06s2t01.flac
     2:51.48       30277340 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5399  gd1971-04-06s2t02.flac
     6:49.50       72265244 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4943  gd1971-04-06s2t03.flac
     9:46.12      103398668 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4613  gd1971-04-06s2t04.flac
    25:00.47      264710588 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4955  gd1971-04-06s2t05.flac
     7:28.53       79151900 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5041  gd1971-04-06s2t06.flac
     3:05.43       32735180 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5145  gd1971-04-06s2t07.flac
     6:11.38       65533820 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4875  gd1971-04-06s2t08.flac
     2:17.55       24296204 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4926  gd1971-04-06s2t09.flac
     9:41.67      102646028 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5380  gd1971-04-06s2t10.flac
   154:30.60     1635370088 B                            0.4866  (22 files)

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