Grateful Dead – Jamming At The Edge Of Magic Vol. 2

Here is the info file posted by ZHB on etree:

Various Sources; all SBD (see notes for details)

SBD Source > Soundforge (Normalization, crossfades and track blending) > CD Wave (Tracking) > Trader’s Little Helper (Verify SBE’s, generate checksums, FLAC Level 8 encoding)

Compiled by ZHB, 1/24/07 (zimahatboy_at_bellsouth_dot_net – db.etree.org/zhb)

Volume 1 of this collection was so much fun, I decided to do a Bruce set as well (mainly thinking of the wonderful Stir It Up Jam from the Cap Center in ’91.). I’m getting a little more familiar with the tools I’m using, and I think this one turned out, over all, even better than the last.

HUGE thanks for this go to all my friends at Tooboarders.net.

Notes:

First, all tracks (28 to start with) were EAC’d from my audio discs. I played around with the order of the tracks until I found transitions I thought would be manageable. Volumes were all over the map, so I normalized them, then applied a fade to the beginning, and blended the tracks. Most tracks had a little cut off the end (you’ll notice that many are leading into Drumz~) and I generally applied a cross-fade of 2 to 4 seconds. For some I used a mixng technique to blend the next track into the previous. I had started the set with the "Tuning Jam" from 6/17/91, but this didn’t fit, so I trimmed most of it and faded it in. I removed a brief dropout at the end of Stir It Up. I also boosted the right channel in Stir It Up to make Jerry’s guitar line more prominent in the middle. For the last track, I found a good "stopping point" just before drums with a small finale, then expanded the crescendo, boosted the bass, added some echo, and applied a short fade out.

Track 1: 6.24.91 [DSBD>DAT>CDR>WAV>SHN>FLAC] Supplication Jam out of Estimated Prophet into Uncle John’s Band.

Track 2: 9.18.90 [SBD->Cm->Dat->CD->Cool Edit Pro->CD] Jam out of Foolish Heart into Drumz.

Track 3: 6.17.91 [SBD -> Master Dat (44.1k) -> Dat Clone] Dark Star Jam out of Ship Of Fools into Truckin’.

Track 4: 12.8.90 [S:PCM>DAT>ZA2>CD] Jam out of Uncle John’s Band into Drumz.

Track 5: 3.21.91 [DSBD>DAT>CDR] Stir It Up Jam out of Fire On The Mountain into Drumz.

Track 6: 6.17.91 [SBD -> Master Dat (44.1k) -> Dat Clone] Dark Star Tease between Brown-Eyed Women and When I Paint My Masterpiece

Track 7: 9.12.91 [soundboard > DAT > CDR > SHN] Playin’ Jam out of Terrapin Station into Drumz.

Track 8: 6.17.91 [SBD -> Master Dat (44.1k) -> Dat Clone] Dark Star Jam out of Uncle John’s Band into Drumz.

Track 9: 3.18.91 [SBD > MC > DAT > CD > EAC > FLAC] Playin’ Jam out of Uncle John’s Band into Terrapin Station.

Track 10: 8.12.91 [SBD > DAT > CD > EAC > FLAC] Jam out of Terrapin Station into Drumz.

Track 11: 6.20.92 [DSBD> ?? > CDR] Shenandoah Jam out of Space into Casey Jones. Bruce is a special guest.

Track 12: 11.1.90 [SBD > DAT > CDR > WAV > SHNv3] Jam out of Space into Dark Star.

Track 13: 10.20.90 [DSBD: Healy mix>MD>D>CD] Jam into Let It Grow into Box Of Rain.

Track 14: 6.22.91 [SBD > ?? > CDR] Dark Star Jam out of Space into PITB Reprise.

Track 15: 3.18.91 [SBD > MC > DAT > CD > EAC > FLAC] Jam out of Terrapin Station into Drumz.

Track 16: 9.20.91 [SBD > DAT > CDR > WAV > SHNv3 > WAV > CDR] Jam out of Truckin’ into Drumz.

Track 17: 9.21.91 [SBD->DAT->CDR->EAC->SHN] Jam out of Eyes Of The World into Drumz.

Track 18: 10.27.91 [SBD> DAT> Sony PCM-R500>….> Wavelab 5 >….> FLAC.] Jam out of Mona into Drumz, features special guests Carlos Santana and Gary Duncan.