Grateful Dead
Greek Theatre, University of California
Berkeley, CA
July 13, 1984
SPEED CORRECTED VERSION

(no imtermediate source info) SBD > ? > CDR
Extracted (cdparanoia) and shortened by
Mark Ferguson <mefergus@bigfoot.com>

Added lineage for this version:
SHN id=353 > WAV > Cool Edit Pro (see notes) > FLAC(8)

Disc 1 [55:38]
SET 1
1. Bertha > [6:42]
2. Greatest Story Ever Told [4:03]
3. Dire Wolf [3:19]
4. C.C. Rider [8:48]
5. Loser [7:07]
6. Cassidy [6:07]
7. Dupree's Diamond Blues [7:07]
8. Hell in a Bucket > [7:43]
9. Might as Well [4:39]

Disc 2 [46:56]
SET2
1. Scarlet Begonias > [12:17]
2. Touch of Grey > [6:37]
3. Fire on the Mountain > [12:21]
4. Man Smart, Woman Smarter > [7:04]
5. Drums# > [8:34]

Disc 3 [52:12]
1. #Space > [6:52]
2. The Wheel > I Need a Miracle > [10:05]
3. Stella Blue > [8:41]
4. Sugar Magnolia [10:08]

ENCORE

5. Dark Star [16:24]


Notes:
Speed corrected using Cool Edit Pro:
- joined wavs using 'Open Append'
- speed/pitch adjusted using 'Pitch Bender'
- re-tracked

The proper pitch was determined by comparing to a guitar tuned to A=440.

d1 through d3t04 adjusted -23 cents
encore d3t05 adjusted +67 cents

The whole show needed the same adjustment, *except for the encore*. The encore looks like the same source as the rest, but the pitch is clearly different. The -23 cents correction doesn't bring it in tune like the rest of the show. A -33 cents correction does bring it into tune, but then Dark Star is in the key of Ab, while it's always played in A. I highly doubt they actually played it in Ab, and Jerry sounds awfully sluggish. With this in mind, I found that raising the pitch +67 cents brought it into A, and Jerry sounds normal again.

My guess (just a guess), is that the encore was transferred from a DAT at a different time than the rest of the show, or using different equipment or settings, and a 48khz > 44.1khz conversion was not done properly, introducing the new pitch problem for the encore. I'm fairly certain that it is correct now though.

joshd
2/13/06