(Hard Rock) [LP] [24/96] Led Zeppelin - III (1970) - 2000, FLAC (tracks+.cue)

Personnel
Led Zeppelin

Jimmy Page – acoustic, electric and pedal steel guitar, backing vocals, banjo, dulcimer, bass guitar on "That's the Way"
Robert Plant – lead vocals, harmonica
John Bonham – drums, percussion, backing vocals
John Paul Jones – bass guitar, organ, synthesizer, mandolin, backing vocals

Production

Peter Grant – executive producer
Andy Johns – recording engineer, mixing engineer
Eddie Kramer – mixing engineer
Terry Manning – mixing engineer, mastering engineer
Jimmy Page – production
Bernie Grundman – mastering

Technical Log

RCM Hannl 'limited' with "Rotating Brush"
Music Hall MMF 9.1 Turntable
Tonearm: Pro-Ject 9cc evo with Pure Silver Wires
Cartridge: Nagaoka MP-500
Brocksieper Phonomax (Tube Phono PreAmp)
E-MU 0404 external USB 2.0 Audiointerface
Interconnections : Silent Wire NF5
WaveLab 6 recording software

Vacuum cleaning > TT > Brocksieper Phonomax > E-MU 0404 > WaveLab 6 (24/192) > manual click removal >
analyze (no clipping, no DC Bias offset) > resampling and dithering with iZotope RX Advanced 2.00
> split into individual Tracks > FLAC encoded (Vers. 1.21)

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

Personal Note (from aksman)

With my vinyl transfers, I try to catch the whole beauty of vinyl records; therefore I don't use any post-processing or any sound improvement. What you get is a clear and flat transfer. For getting a clear sound, I'll do an extended washing of each record with my RCM, which can take up to 30 minutes brushing on each side. Resistant ticks and clicks I try to remove as good as possible, but the priority is not to lose any musical information in the process. Surface noises, as long they are not too high, are left in place. Only on bad pressings or on records recorded at extremely low levels do I use a fade in-/-out. As John Peel said, "Life is full of surface noises." In some cases this means that I have to make a compromise.... The result has to pass my personal quality criteria, which is IMO quite high.

Dynamic Range Analysis

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Analyzed: Led Zeppelin / 3 [Classic Records 200g LP]
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR11 -6.14 dB -19.92 dB 2:25 01-Immigrant Song
DR12 -5.25 dB -19.78 dB 3:53 02-Friends
DR12 -5.84 dB -19.33 dB 3:29 03-Celebration Day
DR12 -5.10 dB -19.92 dB 7:22 04-Since I've Been Loving You
DR13 -3.98 dB -19.13 dB 4:05 05-Out on the Tiles
DR13 -4.82 dB -21.84 dB 4:56 06-Gallows Pole
DR12 -5.51 dB -21.74 dB 3:10 07-Tangerine
DR11 -3.95 dB -19.86 dB 5:36 08-That's the Way
DR12 -3.65 dB -19.10 dB 4:18 09-Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
DR9 -0.29 dB -19.87 dB 3:40 10-Hats Off to (Roy) Harper
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Number of tracks: 10
Maximum peak difference (-0.29 dB - -6.14 dB): 5.85 dB

Official DR value (Song Mode): DR12
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