Grateful Dead
Knickerbocker Arena
Albany, NY
March 27, 1993

Jerry Garcia – Lead Guitar, Vocals
Mickey Hart – Drums
Bill Kreutzmann – Drums
Phil Lesh – Electric Bass, Vocals
Bob Weir – Rhythm Guitar, Vocals
Vince Welnick – Keyboards, Vocals

Matrix

SBD (shnid=92523):

Recording Info:
Set 1: SBD -> Dat -> Cassette Master -> Dat
Set 2: SBD -> Dat

Transfer Info:
Set 1: Dat (Sony R500) -> SEK’D Prodif Plus -> Samplitude Professional v7.02 -> WAV
Set 2: Dat (Fostex D5) -> Audiophile 2496 -> Samplitude Professional v7.02 -> WAV

Mastering Info:
WAV -> Samplitude Professional v10.1 -> FLAC
(3 Discs Audio / 2 Discs FLAC)

All Transfers By Charlie Miller and Joe Samaritano
All Mastering By Charlie Miller
charliemiller87@earthlink.net
June 30, 2008

Notes:
— Set 2 is seamless
— Other circulating sources have a cassette gen, noise reduction and EQ applied
— This source is a clean transfer directly off of the Dats

AUD (shnid=140009):

source: aud dat master
taped by Doug Lamarre

sennheiser 441’s > denon dtr-80
taper section

transferred & seeded – Rob Berger 11/2017

[11/23/17]

Thank you to Charlie Miller and Joe Samaritano for the soundboard transfer,
to Doug Lamarre for recording the show,
to Rob Berger for the AUD transfer,
and to John Bartlang for matrix review and feedback.

Matrix by Hunter Seamons using Final Cut Pro for set 1 and Soundtrack Pro for set 2 (FLAC > AIFF > Final Cut > Soundtrack > AIFF CD tracking via Audacity > FLAC16 via xACT w/meta-tagging)
August 7, 2021

Set I

d1t01 – Hell In A Bucket
d1t02 – Bertha
d1t03 – The Same Thing
d1t04 – Peggy-O
d1t05 – Queen Jane Approximately
d1t06 – Broken Arrow
d1t07 – Loose Lucy
d1t08 – Cassidy
d1t09 – Casey Jones

Set II

d2t01 – Eyes Of The World >
d2t02 – Estimated Prophet >
d2t03 – Comes A Time >
d2t04 – Corrina >
d2t05 – Drums >
d3t01 – Space >
d3t02 – The Wheel >
d3t03 – All Along The Watchtower >
d3t04 – Days Between >
d3t05 – One More Saturday Night

Encore
d3t06 – I Fought The Law

Notes:

Final performance of Casey Jones.

The first set SBD source ran from 0.5% to 0.3% fast and was pitch corrected.

Lamarre’s tape brings some very nice lower bass that is virtually absent from the SBD. You can feel the Knick rumbling, especially during the second set (see Estimated). No EQ required for either source.

Some initial SBD mix fluctuations in Hell In A Bucket. The SBD levels were a couple decibels low for over half of the song and were adjusted to compensate for this. The AUD briefly started out very low too and was adjusted to compensate. Subtle changes to the AUD levels were made throughout the show to find the right mix, as usual.

The overall levels were significantly different between the set 1 cassette and the set 2 Dat SBD sources and were adjusted to be more similar, opting for higher levels. There was already significant clipping of the drums during Estimated Prophet and Drums in the original source, particularly in the right channel. The drums are basically what get clipped in other songs from increased levels here, but only slightly and infrequently and it is not an audible issue.

Clicks removed or reduced: 7 in Hell In A Bucket, 1 in Bertha, 4 in Peggy-O, 5 in Queen Jane Approximately, 2 in Broken Arrow, 7 in Loose Lucy, 1 in Cassidy, 1 in Casey Jones, numerous in Eyes Of The World, 2 in Estimated Prophet, 9 in Comes A Time, 3 in Corrina, 1 in All Along The Watchtower, 2 in Days Between. Some static was also removed or reduced in Hell In A Bucket and Bertha. Minor anomalies remain throughout the show.

There are very faint “flicking” sounds during parts of the second set, particularly during Eyes Of The World, that are part of the SBD recording (also on the official release). I was able to clean up a bunch of this.