Grateful Dead
Niagara Falls Convention Center
Niagara Falls, NY
April 17, 1984
Jerry Garcia - Lead Guitar, Vocals
Mickey Hart - Drums
Bill Kreutzmann - Drums
Phil Lesh - Electric Bass, Vocals
Brent Mydland - Keyboards, Vocals
Bob Weir - Rhythm Guitar, Vocals
*Matrix*
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SBD (shnid=137250):
Recording Info:
SBD > Cassette Master > Reel > Dat (Panasonic SV-3800/48k)
Transfer Info:
Dat (Sony R500) > Tascam DA-3000 >
Adobe Audition CC 2015 > Samplitude Pro X3 Suite > FLAC/48k
(1 DVD FLAC)
All Transfers and Mastering By Charlie Miller
charliemiller87@earthlink.net
November 15, 2016
[Cut]:
Franklin's Tower (6:12 - 9:01)
[5-second cut in Space]
Notes:
-- Thanks to Rob Eaton for the Dats
-- Thanks to Joe B. Jones for his help with the pitch correction
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AUD (shnid=145264):
Ackerman Archives
Master Audience Recording & Transfer by Ray Ackerman;
2 x Nakamichi CM300/CP4 + 2 x Sennheiser 421 blend > Yamaha mixer > Sony D5 > Sony D6
Transfer info;
Master Cassettes (Nakamichi 700 MKii)> Oade modified Grace Design Lunatec V3 > M-Audio MicroTrack II > WAV 24/96
Edited & Mastered by Joe Noel:
WAV > Audacity > FLAC 24/96
April 29, 2018
This file set is 16 bit @ 44.1
Patch info
- shnid 90543 (Neumann U87) supplies
- s1t06; 07:10 - end
- s1t07; start - 00:08
- s2t08; 01:04 - 01:21
- s2t12; 06:36 - 07:18
[17-second cut towards the end of Eyes Of The World; 6-second cut during NFA outro]
Notes:
- Thanks to Ray for his generosity
- Thanks to Charlie for aiding & abetting
- Thanks to Rob Eaton for suppling the patch source
- Grateful for Jerry Garcia's interpretation of Slipknot!
- tapes pauses cross faded
[Circulated 2/17/19]
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Thank you to Charlie Miller for the SBD transfer,
to Ray Ackerman, Gordon Sharpless and Rob Eaton for recording the show,
to Ray Ackerman, Joe Noel, and David Minches for the AUD transfers,
to dewey72 for suggesting this matrix project,
and to Paul Lagrotteria for sharing the concert photo.
Matrix by Hunter Seamons using Final Cut Pro (FLAC > AIFF > Final Cut w/EQ > AIFF CD tracking via Audacity > FLAC16 via xACT w/meta-tagging)
August 17, 2025
Set I
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d1t01 - Jack Straw
d1t02 - Dire Wolf
d1t03 - Minglewood Blues
d1t04 - Row Jimmy
d1t05 - My Brother Esau
d1t06 - Ramble On Rose
d1t07 - Looks Like Rain >
d1t08 - Deal
Set II
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d2t01 - Take A Beer Barrel Polka Step Back >
d2t02 - Help On The Way >
d2t03 - Slipknot! >
d2t04 - Franklin's Tower
d2t05 - Women Are Smarter >
d2t06 - Eyes Of The World >
d2t07 - Drums >
d3t01 - Space >
d3t02 - Black Peter >
d3t03 - Throwing Stones >
d3t04 - Not Fade Away
Encore
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d3t05 - Touch Of Grey
Notes:
Ray Ackerman pretty much saved this matrix project. We tried mixing several other AUD sources as tests (before ultimately using Ray's tape), and they all had a subtle but pretty frequent slurry effect in the high end cymbals that was greatly accentuated when mixing. The matrix wasn't sounding crispy with these AUD sources. It appears something funky was going on with the acoustics and affecting the audience recordings - except for Ray's tape for some reason. We couldn't detect the faint "slurry effect" in his tape, and sure enough there was no high end friction when matrixing his source with the SBD. Very interesting.
We were about to shelve this project after testing the first "incompatible" AUDs, but then Ray messaged us that same day out of the blue and mentioned that while his recording sounded "pretty darn good," Rob Eaton's U87 source was the one to pick (dewey72 suggested the Gordon Sharpless tape as well as an option). This prompted us to take a closer look at Ray's source anyhow, and we were surprised to discover that it didn't have the weird high end issues. While not our top choice sound-wise, we ended up really liking the subtle but significant effect it was having on the matrix - yet another example of a "lesser quality" AUD being more complementary and nicer when mixing. Thanks again, Ray!
A very loud sound effect burst was reduced at the beginning of Ramble On Rose.
Gordon Sharpless's Neumann U-87 source, #86942, transfer by David Minches (8/26/07), was used for the 2:52 SBD patch in Franklin's Tower. It also patches a 17-second cut in Ackerman's AUD towards the end of Eyes Of The World.
A hiccup glitch in the SBD source during Drums was repaired. A 5-second cut in Space is now patched.
Shortly after a patch edit (or two?) in a brief section during the NFA outro in Ackerman's AUD source (not noted in text file it appears) - with some unusual shiftiness that we were still able to stretch and shift back into alignment - there was also a 6-second cut in Ackerman's AUD that was patched with Sharpless's source at higher volume and with longer fades. This provided some more up-close NFA chants here at the end of the song as an interesting change in aural perspective.
Light EQ was used for the SBD source only as needed. Most of set 2 had no EQ.