The sound on this recording allows the Dead’s amazing performance to truly sparkle. For instance, the first minute of China Cat is just spectacularly clean, enabling Jerry’s guitar to pierce your very soul. It is a soundboard, so the quality was undoubtedly quite high to begin with. However, the original tapes are now forty years old, and we could expect, at best, some hiss and other irregularities. But this recording is nearly flawless. For that, we have Charlie Miller to thank. Charlie was the long-time soundman for Steve Kimock and is best known in the Dead community for transferring and upgrading hundreds of taped shows. Born and raised on Long Island, Miller saw his first Dead show on the day before his sixteenth birthday, November 2, 1979. Four years later, he began taping at the April 15, 1983, show in Rochester while following the tour. With his vast experience and training, he has an amazing ability to work his magic on these old tapes using various techniques and programs, restoring them to their original beauty, perhaps even improving on the initial taped sound.