(Folk Rock) [LP][24/96] Neil Young - Neil Young - 1969 (Original US Withdrawn version) + Bonus track, FLAC (tracks+.cue)

#777Software:
- Audition 3.0 used for adjusting DC bias. editing. (incl. manual removal of clicks and pops, adding gain and making the cue points.
- Click Repair 3.0 used with setting Cl: 25 Cr: 0
- CueListTool v1.7 & Mediaval CueSplitter used for generating the .cue's & .m3u's.

Post-production note:
This was transferred from an VG++ graded copy. The record was professionally and carefully cleaned in three steps using Audio Intelligent’s Enzymantic formula, Super Cleaner Formula, and Ultra pure water on a VPI 16.5 (using VPI brushes) and Nitty Gritty mini-pro 2. There is some groove wear hearable during the last 2 minutes of Track 10. The sound quality of this fragment is somewhat below my usual quality standards but because this record is such a rarity, I’ve decided to let it be. Other than this, there is no hearable groove deterioration going on. The distortion you hear on the female choir in Tr. 5 & 9 is part of the original recording. The record is reasonably quiet but after a moderate declick with Click Repair hundreds of (mostly tiny) clicks and pops were still noticeable. I invested many hours of manual restoration work on this to bring it up to CD standards. Considering the low level mastering and the less than ideal vinyl quality, I think I’ve achieved a stunning result but you still may hear some minor vinyl surface noise on the very quiet parts of half the tracks. This is probably the most time consuming rip I have done so far; I worked on this on and off for three months.