Vinyl Ripping Process/Equipment
Vinyl Cleaning Process
3 Liter Ultrasonic Cleaner (Tap water with Sporicidin) on custom rotating assembly at 1 RPM for one hour Vacuum off with Nitty Gritty AIVS Premium Record Cleaner Formula No. 15 applied with Mofi Brush while rotating on VPI 16.5 McCulloch MC-1275 Heavy-Duty Steam Cleaner applied with Mofi Brush while rotating on VPI 16.5 Vacuum off with VPI 16.5 L’Art du Son Record Cleaning Fluid applied with VPI Bristle brush Vacuum off with VPI 16.5 Whole Foods Deionized Water applied with Mofi Brush (Separate from AIVS Mofi Brush) Vacuum off with VPI 16.5 Flip record and repeat Place record on Plate Demgnetizer
Turntable Equipment Profile
VPI Scoutmaster with inverted bearing and 300 RPM motor Trans-Fi ResoMat Gingko Cloud 11 Vibration Control Platform VPI Synchronous Drive System turntable motor speed controller and line isolator Trans-Fi Audio Terminator T3Pro tangential tracking air bearing tonearm with Tomahawk Armwand Soundsmith Sussorro Paua
Phono Stage Profile
Musical Surroundings Phonomena Phono Preamplifier Musical Surroundings Battery Power Supply
Analog/Digital Convertion
RME ADI-2 =< ADAT =< E-MU 1212M Adobe Audition 3.01 running on Windows XP in a Shuttle PC form factor
Post Processing Of Audio
Run thru ClickRepair(if necessary) at level 7 with Pitch Protection | off Reverse | on Simple Resample to 96khz in Izotope Rx2 using the default preset Manually listen to album in Adobe Audition cleaning any clicks/anomalies Flac with Xrecode II for hi-rez files Flac with Trader’s Little Helper for redbook files
Original release done by Classic records |