Post Your Needledrops, Pt. 2

Continued from Pt. 1, which can be found here:

http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=142754

 

http://www.rudys.net/vinylrip/IntoTheMystic.m4a

off the new Van Morrison vinyl reissue.
its in Apple Lossless (20mb+ and requires itunes or quicktime to play)

 

Sounds good! Gear used?

 

thanks
Pro-ject Expression turntable with Sumiko blue point #2 -> Parasound Halo P3 Preamp -> PreSonus Inspire 1394 ADC -> MacBook Pro running Sound Studio 3 (24bit/ 96k)

 

Thanks, had to be a quality setup and well done. I liked the highs which are clear without being too bright.

 

http://www.sendspace.com/file/m572yy

Beatles: 'She Loves You' from an original Capitol Rainbow. No limiters or de-scratchers.

 

buddy rich from the direct to disc lp class of 78 doing weather report's birdland. great record. a few crackles here and there but it's buddy like he's in the room! this is the whole track by the way.

micro seiki dd 40 turntable w/ grado cartridge ( don't know the model ) >
GAS thoebe preamp > 24/96 m-audio transit > usb > cool edit pro > wave at 16/44

http://www.sendspace.com/file/skd55u

 

I've been meaning to get this uploaded for quite some time. This is from one of my favourite purchases of 2008 - Frederick Stanley Starr's Heaviside Layer. Lovely vinyl apart from being rather noisy - I've not declicked it as it's not TOO bad. But this is my favourite track from it. Hope you like.

Recorded from a Well Tempered Classic V turntable with an Audio Technica AT33PTG cart, into a Eurekon Concept MC003 phono stage and into a Macbook Pro. Recorded initially in 32-bit/44.1KHz and downsampled to 16-bit and converted to AAC. This was a bit of an experiment in whether compressing recordings in this way was acceptable. I would say yes.

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=c7ba9c0d54b0b06ae7ba8e3c6e11ce207e922c4fd2ff1012c95965eaa7bc68bc

 

A couple more 24/96 rips (in Apple Lossless format) from the 2007 Doors box set... I especially like the sound of Strange Days

Pro-ject Expression turntable with Sumiko blue point #2 -> Parasound Halo P3 Preamp -> PreSonus Inspire 1394 ADC -> MacBook Pro running Sound Studio 3 (24bit/ 96k)


http://www.rudys.net/vinylrip/StrangeDaysClip.m4a

http://www.rudys.net/vinylrip/DoorsClip.m4a

 

A favourite of mine: Tutu by Miles Davis

wav
http://cid-d57e836204feb061.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/needledrops/tutu-xerxes.wav

flac
http://cid-d57e836204feb061.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/needledrops/tutu-xerxes.flac

Anyone know if this was a digital recording btw? It was released in the CD era.

PS the Xerxes in the filenames is the name of the record deck.

Tim

 

Nice work all! This one's my mom's, from Charles Aznavour's '69 album called désormais ... (Barclay 80398). Survived cheap ceramic carts almost unscathed (flexy vinyl, maybe that helped). The sole Paul Mauriat arranged track in 24/48 FLAC: http://www.sendspace.com/file/p3i4z0

Sansui SR-222MKIV with Audio Technica AT430E/OCC into Cambridge Audio 540P, modded with 22pF cap./36k res./44dB gain.

 

From the new Stone Roses vinyl box set
http://www.rudys.net/vinylrip/StoneRosesRemaster.m4a

 

More (French) retro:

Artist: Nana Mouskouri
Album: Que je sois un ange...
Label: Philips 9101 007
Year: 1974

Link: http://www.sendspace.com/file/6t5zvb

You'll recognize the tune, I'm sure. These 70's French pressings are impressive.

 

sounds great Herman, thanks

 

Last night I received a *super* warped copy of the Breakfast Club soundtrack - the needle could barely drop into the groove before the first note of this sound clip. I was ready to toss the record in the garbage but it just sounds so clean. I have it pressed tightly (vertically) in my collection shelves now. Hoping it will even out some. Hard to throw out something that sounds like this:

http://rudys.net/vinylrip/BreakfastClubClip.m4a

 

High intensity Simple Minds, bokonon

I don't have any *super* warped ones, but when there's one that bothers me I lay it flat on top of my receiver (which is normally on all the time and quite uniformly warm). With a weight placed on the label (and laying in the sense that counteracts the warp of course), I've had some success like that.

 

It's been awhile since I've posted anything so I thought on this weekend when so many are waiting impatiently for their Beatles remasters that I'd throw up a sample of a needledrop I've been working on.

Here's a sample from side 1 of a great mint UK stereo copy of Beatles For Sale I picked up awhile ago. It's one of the Harry T Moss-cut late-70's/early 80's reissues. The only thing I've done is very light clickrepair and then a bass boost of 2.5dB below 250Hz using a low shelf to try and counteract the bass cut done back in the day. Enjoy!

http://www.sendspace.com/file/v0oad1

 

Sounds smooth, Stefan.

A little sample by Steve Gadd. Straight transfer with my above mentioned setup.

From a Dutch pressing of The Gadd Gang (CBS Haarlem plant). A 1986 digital recording (SONY 3324 Digital Recorder).

 

Nice to see this thread is still alive! I'm blocked from downloading at work but I'll check it out when I get home.

Yes, the Beatles sample sounds good to me. I was happy to note that the remastered 2009 CD of Beatles For Sale sounds very close to the vinyl version. I love the big soundstage on No Reply (although it sounds kind wonky how it disappears at times), and the vocal harmonises on I'll Follow the Sun sound tremendous!

 

Yes, I wish more members would post samples here, there's only so much I can do with a 25 y.o. budget deck and cart. I find myself having to go elsewhere to get a taste of high-end. Straight transfers without post-processing would be fine, just to get a feel for their different setups and equipment.

 

Indeed. I'll put a shout out in the thread about needledrop equipment that's going on right now.

I just checked out your Steve Gadd sample. It sounds tremendous! I love some of those 80's digital recordings where the folks involved were trying to achieve great sound and before things like maximizers, and all other sorts of digital processing came along. Mind you, once they poured on huge gobs of Lexicon reverb, it got crazy, and of course, cranked the compressors, it got nasty. Ah well... lots of 80's pressings out there in great shape. I find myself buying more and more of them lately.

 

Thanks, Stefan. I agree, a top-notch analog recording would probably sound better, but you can still sense they were trying to do something right in those early digital days, both with CD and vinyl.

 

I needle-drop most of my vinyl purchases if only for preservation - disk space is cheap. I usually do not do any post processing (i can always do that later if I want) and I usually keep it to 1 file a side at 24bit/96khz. I think the 1file/side really appeals to me as listening to it at work later on gives me more of a vinyl simulation

I would love to hear more of people's needledrops, and less discussion about Post Processing ;-p but thats just me. Am glad to hear other people into it regardless.

 

Ok, Stefan motivated me.

This is a short clip from this album. The song title is "Life So Cruel". The Renaissance CD has some serious issues, like someone went wild with the NoNoise, so I've spent a little time trying to find a clean vinyl copy of this one.

Anyway, my rig:

Rega P3
Shelter 201
Bellari VP129 (with NOS USA Tung-Sol 12AX7A)
M-Audio ProFire 610

Captured at 192kHz/24bit (using Peak Pro 6)
Downsampled to 44kHz using Audiofile Engineering Sample Manager (izotope SRC)
Dithered to 16 bits using Audiofile Engineering Wave Editor (MBIT+ Ultra)

 

Could anyone do some needle drops of any type of classical music? Would be interesting to hear

Rudolf