Grateful Dead May 77 Box Set Announced

So with this new May Box Set here, the entire Spring 1977 Tour (except for 2 shows) have been officially released. How awesome!

I would bet that they will be filled eventually now that Betty's stuff is returned.

@ the 11:00 mark of Dave's seaside chat over at dead.net he acknowledges that SEVERAL HUNDRED, yes, that's right... Several hundred reels were returned that make over a 100+ shows to be releases over time.

Fun time to be a head!

@jayrossi13: Plangent Process is all you need to know here (as good as it gets).  Not sure if the Digital 24bit resolution will be available.  But this will shine even at 16bit

Hey jafant -

Yes - 14 TB. All the sources available (sbd, aud, FM, Matrix's, etc..)

I can already tell you the best SBD out there of 5/8/77 in circulation was from Dan Hicks and it sounds amazing.

Yesterday at 3:30 Dave L. played Scarlet>Fire from 5-8-77 on Sirius Ch 23 (GD channel) and it really does sound even better.  Quite incredible actually and that was only in the car!!!

As clean as clean can be!!! We all should be really happy with the outcome of this box.

Wish I could help you @fin04.

CD’s are pretty much out of my life now that small compact plug-n-play hard drives, thumb drives, music players are available and adapters for home stereo and car, etc... all are supported widely now-a-days. I transferred all my regular CD’s and DEAD CD’s to digital a long time ago (quite a project)

I take my CD’s and convert to FLAC, WAV, mP3, etc... pretty easy, plays seamless and no big bulky CD’s or cases. IMHO only :-)

My LIVE dead is 14 terabytes of FLACS & video... with many backups!!!

Love the fact that the Minglewood has NO patch!!!

Life is good... enjoy listening this weekend folks!

@ highpercentile: 

The best SBD out there is Darrin Sacks

Source WBOTB Source -- 7" two track BBD reel encoded w/ DBX-1 noise reduction @ 7 1/2 ips > Sony PCM501ES @ 44.055 kHz. Sony PCM501ES analog out > DBX-1 decoder > analog in PCM501ES. PCM501ES analog out > Fostex D5 @ 48 kHz>DATs>ZA2>CDRs>EAC>SHN
Taped by Betty Cantor
Transferred by Darrin Sacks

There are two great Matrix's out there as well made by Hunter Seamon's and another one from Dave Usborne.  Both are really sweet sounding.

Usborne uses Jerry Moore's audience:

Handheld Shure 57's, 10 Feet From Stage, DFC>TC152>MC
MC>CDR>EAC>WAV>FLAC

Notes: 10 Feet From Stage = Great Instrument Pickup,
Vocals A Bit Lower Than Moore's Copy.

Hunter uses Teddy Goodbear's audience:

Audience 1 (shnid:117027)source: aud taped by Jerry Moore a) cassette master>10.5" reel @ 7.5 ips, dolby b provides a majority of the show

I did a Soundcheck like you using the Rolling Stone Mp3 vs. the SBD.

We are going to be thrilled with this release. It will be the holy grail.

now, if they’d only get 5/8/78 for sale. --prob the best show i’ve heard. and i’ve heard a few (incl barton hall, which is great, i’m just saying 5/8/78...)

@rhyno Are you thinking 5-7 or 5-9/78? No show for 5-8-78

@ rhino Quite alright, but if you desire the 5-11-78 it was included in Dick’s Picks 25 (which also includes the night before at New Haven 5-10-78).

:-)

If you’d like a copy please feel free to PM me.

Love this release

All I can say is two words...

1. UN

2. BELIEVABLE

Got the FLAC tunes and now today just got the email confirmation of the Box Set coming Friday to my door with all the (goodies) inside.

Will not spoil now... just beautiful stuff

This Box Set is a cleaner transfer of the Master tapes, clarity all around (IMO).

The bass region is much cleaner and tighter with really nice extension through the subwoofer. Middle range has tremendous depth and phase accuracy, and the top end shines! 

Probably would guess the Plangent Processing helped, big time.

I'm listening to the New Haven Surgaree over and over again... can't get enough.... and the Lazy Lightning>Supplication from that set is really going out there...

...and Row Jimmy (Cornell) check it out.  Yummy.

I was under the impression that the Minglewood opener from Cornell was un-patched.  But after catching something my 2nd or 3rd time through, I can hear a slight "sound change" at the 10-11 second mark.  Anyone else hear that?  I tried it on my ATH-M50 headphones too, and I can definitely hear "some sort of change" (to me... IMO), Maybe a patch from another show?

Loving this Box so far

Wow @raymonda never even knew there was and LP release of 10-14-83? I always felt it could sound better. (missing some life)

Will need to check into that.

Thanks for the info and happy LP listening!

That 1st tape/show that made me say "WOW"

• BX-300>BX-300

@jafant The Box set kills it all over.

The Cornell is superior to all sources I had previously. I also had great copies also of 5/5 - 5/7 & 5/9 and the Box Set for those is far superior (IMO). Couldn’t agree more about Plangent Processing.

Really enjoying it all and looking forward to the next goodies to be released.

I know Cornell is what everyone talks about but the 5/9 is really an amazing Grateful Dead time stamp as well.

I’m pretty sure EVERY Dave’s Pick release has Plangent Processing along with...

- Europe ’72 release

- Winterland ’73 Complete Recordings

- Grateful Dead: Complete Studio Albums Collection Remastered in HD

- Cow Palace ’76 Release

- July ’78 release

- The Spring ’90 (Other One release, not for the first Spring ’90 release)

- 50th Anniversary GD Album Release

- Get Shown The Light release