(Rock) [LP][24/96] The Doors "The Doors" 1967 MFSL-1051 - 1980, FLAC (tracks)

The album was transcribed on a Technics SL-1200MK5 turntable with custom modifications by KAB Electro-Acoustics using an Audio-Techinca AT1500MLX cartridge with a Microline stylus. The preamp was a Velleman 8021 Control Amplifier. Amplification by about 24 dB and Analog to digital conversion at 24bit/96kHz was with an E-MU-0202. Recording was to a Sony VAIO desktop computer with a 3.0 GHz Pentium IV processor using Cool Edit Pro 2.1 at 32bit/96kHz, floating. Extra "silence" at the beginning, end and between sides was trimmed in Cool Edit Pro. A couple of dozen clicks were removed using "Fill Single Click Now" in Cool Edit Pro. No other editing or noise reduction was done.

Cues were dropped and named and the file saved with dithering enabled as a 24-bit 96kHz type 1 wav. QueListTool v1.7 was used to extract and save the image cue file. Metadata was added to the image cue file using foobar. The image file was split into tracks, compressed to FLAC (v1.2.1) and tagged in foobar2000. The FLACs were then decoded and resulting WAVs compared to original uncompressed wav files using MD5 checksums. No differences were found. M3u files were created with mp3tag. The multiple wav cue was created with CUETools (www.moitah.net).

Hardware:
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Cartridge........: Audio-Techinca AT1500MLX with a Microline stylus, tracking: 1.25 grams
Turntable........: Modified Technics SL-1200MK5 from KAB
Preamp...........: Velleman 8021 Control Amplifier
Audio Adapter....: Creative Labs E-MU 0202 set to 24bit/96kHz
Computer.........: Sony VAIO 3.0 GHz Pentium IV

Software:
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Audio Editor 1...: Cool Edit Pro 2.1: record at 32bit/96kHz,
Manual click removal
Save as 24-bit packed int(type 1)
Drop & name track cues
Noise Reduction..: None
Cue Extractor ...: CueListTool v1.7: Extract cue file from wav file
Audio Editor 2...: foobar2000 v0.9.5b5: add metadata to cue file, split Image,
convert to FLAC v1.2.1, tag FLACs from image cue file
Cue converter....: CUETools: convert single wav cue to multiple wav cue
(Must have 16-bit/44.1kHz files for CUETools)
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The volume of this pressing is the lowest of any I have ever ripped. I turned up the volume knobs on the E-Mu up to about +24dB, which increased the average rms power of the left channel of track one by 11.42dB. (In order to make this comparison I recorded Track 1 both with and without amplification.) Due to the amplification the surface noise was may be noticeable between tracks. However, the tracks sound great.