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
VPI Center Record Weight
VPI Periphery Ring Clam
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
Zyx Airy 3X-SB cartridge[/i]

Phono Stage Profile

Musical Surroundings Phonomena Phono Preamplifier
Musical Surroundings Battery Power Supply

Analog/Digital Convertion

E-MU 1212M (the 1212M contains the same A/D converters used in Digidesign’s ProTools HD 192 I/O interface)
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