1991-04-04: WOW Hall, Eugene, OR, USA

Phish
04-04-91
Woodmen of the World Hall (aka "WOW Hall")
Eugene, OR

-- FLAWS EXIST, AND ARE NOTED BELOW (none are flaws of the digital domain) --

Source:
SBD -> Cassette Master -> DAT

Scarcity:
Bill's RCA SBD patch was given to him as a friend of Page; apparently, no other SBD patches were given.
There are no known AUDs of this show. Kindly let me know if you have one, or know of one.

Transfer and Lineage Detail:
Cassette mastered (by Bill H.) on an unknown "vintage 80s 3-head Nak deck (not a DR-1)" ->
Maxell XL-II cassette ->
Played back by a Nak DR1 deck ->
Recorded to DAT on Sony R500 DAT w/SBM* (by Clay Ellwood) ->
Cloned on Sony R500 + Tascam DA20 MKII @ 48KHz ->
Jeff Ishaq's (my) first gen DAT clone ->
Playback on Fostex D5 ->
optical cable -> HOSA ODL-276 -> coax cable ->
Waveterminal 2496, hardware downsampling to 44.1KHz ->
CoolEdit 2000 (noise reduction and fixes done here) ->
CDWave 1.6 > WAV > mkwACT 0.97b1 > SHN v3

*: SBM is Super Bit Mapping, a Sony 16-bit to 20-bit upsampling algorithm.

Credits:
Mastered by Bill H.
Original DAT seed from Clay Ellwood (thanks!)
Transfer, notes, noise reduction, and Dankseeds upload by Jeff Ishaq

Noise Reduction notes:
There was a terrible high-pitched buzz that ran from start -> d1t08 08:23 and d1t10 01:58 -> end. I applied a notch filter in Cool Edit 2000 to these two passages to reduce the noise, the downside of which was a slight attenuation in the high-end such as cymbal/high-hat. I think this recording was a little heavy on the high-end anyway, so perhaps this wasn't a downside after all -- you be the judge: you can hear the notch filter kick in again at d1t10 01:58.

I also manually removed numerous pops, the exact locations of which are at the end of this info file.

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*Dankseed Certification received 2001-11-19*
and posted at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dankseeds/files/ph91-04-04/
Listening test performed by *5* danksters

positive criteria met:
Tracking- OK
Seamless and complete- OK
Lineage listed- OK

negative criteria met:
DAE- NO
Resampled- NO
Diginoise- NO

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Tracking:

Disc One: 74:02
Set I:
01. 01:58 Oh Kee Pa Ceremony ->
02. 05:03 Suzy Greenberg
03. 14:54 You Enjoy Myself
04. 06:00 The Squirming Coil
05. 04:23 Llama
06. 06:38 Colonel Forbin's Ascent ->
07. 06:38 Famous Mockingbird
08. 08:42 Possum~
09. 01:32 Carolina
10. 05:19 Golgi Apparatus * Gotta Jiboo teast 04:40?
Set II:
11. 06:25 The Curtain ->
12. 06:30 Runaway Jim

Disc Two: 68:55
01. 05:45 Guelah Papyrus
02. 13:08 David Bowie
03. 02:26 Lawn Boy
04. 03:25 The Landlady
05. 02:12 My Sweet One
06. 12:02 The Divided Sky
07. 01:36 HYHU >
08. 03:33 Love You >
09. 00:29 HYHU ->
10. 04:52 Big Black Furry Creature From Mars
Encore 1:
11. 04:15 Magilla
12. 04:29 Highway to Hell
Encore 2:
13. 06:08 Contact
14. 04:35 Uncle Pen

~: Tapeflip cuts-into Possum

Unfixable Flaws: (these are all very subtle)
d1t07 01:22.478 -> 01:22.481 partial dropout
d1t08 08:14 -> 08:29, 08:38: feedback and a little crackle/static
d1t10 01:55 -> 01:57, crackle/static
d1t11 00:11.423 -> 00:11.484 three very short (< .03 sec) dropouts, sounds like one
d2t06 04:15.892 -> 04:16.513 00.62-sec faded d/o (tapeflip?)

Fixed flaws:
d1t03:
07:30.203 -> 07:30.208 pop removal - stereo
08:30.606 -> 08:30.606 pop removal - right channel
13:21.707 -> 13:21.592 pop removal - stereo
14:51.534 -> 14:51.534 pop removal - left channel

d1t08:
00:40.739 -> 00:41.416 right channel flutter improvements
01:05.895 -> 01:05.896 pop removal - stereo
05:57.810 -> 05:57.834 left channel flutter improvements

d1t11:
02:24.070 -> 02.24:071 pop removal - stereo
03:33.162 -> 03:32.850 pop removal - stereo

d2t02:
00:48.593 -> 00:48.593 pop removal - stereo
05:23.708 -> 05:23.708 pop removal - stereo
06:48.643 -> 06:48.359 pop removal - stereo
07:25.393 -> 07:25.394 pop removal - right channel

dwt05:
00:25.110 -> 00;25.111 pop removal - left channel
01:49.761 -> 01:49.761 pop removal - stereo

d2t06:
07:07.188 -> 07:07.188 pop removal - stereo
11:26.430 -> 11:26.431 pop removal - stereo

d2t07:
00:05.782 -> 00:06.783 pop removal - stereo
00:16.364 -> 00:16.364 pop remoavl - right channel

d2t10:
02:54.353 -> 02:54.354 pop removal - stereo
04:40.166 -> 04:40.167 pop removal - stereo

d2t11:
01:33.045 -> 01:33.047 pop removal - left channel

d2t12:
02:45.601 -> 02:45.602 pop removal - stereo

d2t13:
06:07.163 -> 06:06.164 pop removal - stereo

d2t14:
02:53.156 -> 02:53.156 pop removal - left channel

-Jeff Ishaq <jeff.ishaq@uvm.edu>
07/14/01
Burlington, VT