(Hard rock) [LP][24/96] Castle Donnington – Monsters Of Rock - 1980, FLAC (tracks), Original US Pressing, feat.Rainbow, Riot, Saxon, Scorpions

1. Rainbow – Stargazer
2. Scorpions – Loving You Sunday Morning
3. Scorpions – Another Piece Of Meat
4. Saxon – Backs To The Wall
5. Rainbow – All Night Long
6. April Wine – I Like To Rock
7. Touch – Don’t Ya Know What Love Is?
8. Riot – Road Racin’

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A1 Rainbow – Stargazer 8:21

Engineer – Flemming Rasmussen Producer, Remix – Roger Glover

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A2 Scorpions – Loving You Sunday Morning 4:58

Producer, Remix – Dieter Dierks

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A3 Scorpions – Another Piece Of Meat 4:43

Producer, Remix – Dieter Dierks

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A4 Saxon – Backs To The Wall 3:29

Engineer – Will Reid Dick Remix – Peter Hinton

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B1 Rainbow – All Night Long 7:58

Engineer – Flemming Rasmussen Producer, Remix – Roger Glover

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B2 April Wine – I Like To Rock 3:58

Remix – Mike Stone, Myles Goodwyn

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B3 Touch – Don't Ya Know What Love Is? 3:55
Engineer – Gary Edwards Producer, Remix – Roger Glover

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B4 Riot – Road Racin' 7:23

Remix – Billy Arnell, Steve Loeb*

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Credits

Engineer [Assisted] – Chris Blake
Engineer [Basic Tracks] – Chris Jenkins
Executive Producer – Roger Glover
Mastered By – Gary Edwards

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Notes

Basic tracks recorded 'live' at Castle Donnington, August 1980 by the Manor Mobile

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foobar2000 1.1.1 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2012-04-23 01:42:15

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Analyzed: Castle Donnington / Monsters Of Rock
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR12 -0.70 dB -15.52 dB 8:32 01-Stargazer
DR13 -2.14 dB -17.42 dB 5:21 02-Loving You Sunday Morning
DR13 -1.68 dB -17.23 dB 5:08 03-Another Piece Of Meat
DR12 -2.67 dB -17.23 dB 3:46 04-Backs To The Wall
DR14 -1.38 dB -17.92 dB 7:59 05-All Night Long
DR14 -1.46 dB -18.16 dB 4:20 06-I Like To Rock
DR13 -0.70 dB -15.71 dB 4:01 07-Don't Ya Know What Love Is?
DR12 -1.63 dB -16.01 dB 7:56 08-Road Racin'
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Number of tracks: 8
Official DR value: DR13

Samplerate: 96000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 2951 kbps
Codec: FLAC

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96kHz Final Master Vinyl Rip March 8th, 2012

Vinyl Ripping Process/Equipment:

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Vinyl Cleaning Process

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- 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

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Turntable Equipment Profile

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- 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

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Phono Stage Profile

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- Musical Surroundings Phonomena Phono Preamplifier
- Musical Surroundings Battery Power Supply

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Analog/Digital Convertion

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- 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

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Post Processing Of Audio

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- 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

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What is this Final Master stuff:

After years of trying to improve both my ripping/cleaning process and upgrading my equipment to a level I feel comfortable sticking with I am proud to present these final versions of the best sources I can find.So I am happy to say that more than likely this is the last mother fucking copy you are ever going to need...or your money back