(Rock) [LP] [24/96] Pink Floyd - Animals - 1977, FLAC (tracks)

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

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