(Jazz Fusion, Progressive Rock) [LP][24/96] Dixie Dregs - What If - 1978 (Original US pressing), FLAC (tracks+.cue)

Posted by TokRock @ June 6th, 2012

Technical Log

Vacuum cleaning machine: PHK NANO MECO

Vinyl Cleaning Process:
• 5 – 30 min ZYX Cleaner (According to vinyl conditions)
• Vacuum on
• Vacuum off with PHK Cleaner
• Vacuum on

Turntable: Salvation (From the same creator of Trans-Fi Terminator T3Pro) Strobe 60 Hz with Strobe Rings Record Clamp

Tonearm: Trans-Fi Audio Terminator T3Pro tangential tracking air bearing tonearm with Tomahawk Armwand Antistatic Record Cleaning ARM

Cartridge: Denon DL-103R

Phono Stage: F-117 Nighthawk (Ray Samuels Audio). MC, MM phono stage. Lithium ion operated. (100ohms)

ADC: MACKIE ONYX-400F Studio Recording Preamp with 64-bit floating point processing.

Softwares:
• Plogue Bidule 0.9705 > Recorded with 192 kHz / 24 bit
• CLickRepair 3.7 (Build44c): DeClick 5/Simple/Reverse and Manual mode
• iZotope 64-Bit SRC for resampling and dithering
• Trader’s Little Helper for Redbook SBE correction and criation of md5 files. (Frontend snhtool and others)
• dBpoweramp Music Converter 14 to encode FLAC
• Mp3tag 2.51

Process:
Vacuum cleaning > Salvation > F-117 > MACKIE > Bidule > ClickRepair > iZotope 64-bit SRC > Split into individual tracks > Trader’s > Flac encoded > Mp3tag

No noise reduction.

No silence been removed, please burn gapless to match original tracklayout.