Posted by Euripides @ May 14th, 2012
Dusko Goykovich – Swinging Macedonia (1967) Germany orig LP @ 96/24
Tech log:
Equipment: VPI HW-17F Vacuum Record Cleaner, Technics SL 1210 MKII T/T, Rega RB 300 Tonearm, Denon DL304 M/C Cartridge, Cambridge Audio AZUR640P M/C Stage, M-Audio Profire 610 A/D, Adobe audition 3.0
Method:
Clean records on Vpi, rip (PCM@96/32), remove inaudible subsonic (0Hz to 17Hz ~ 0db, with sloped filter from 17Hz to 20Hz)
Manual and carefully targeted automatic de-clicking in Adobe Audition using custom scripts and presets. I make sure this doesn’t damage natural clicks.
Occasional use of noise masking techniques such as ‘footprint’ sampling the groove noise and fading to mono during track changes, etc.
Normalize whole sides to 100% (After deciding if the sides are cut the same), Split tracks, FLAC, MD5, M3U, Discogs Tagging, DR, RAR, +Redbook (16-bit dithered in Audition), FTP
Audio philosophy: Stay out of the way of the music.
Artwork:
Source: The album
Quality: Good (96 dpi)
Contains: Various sleeve and label artwork
This LP’s school report: (A), Condition:
NM
Deadwax info:
A: * AA843942 1Y MADE IN GERMANY 1 B / B: * AA843942 2Y MADE IN GERMANY 2 C
A wonderfully well made recording and pressing, showing all the signs of being mastered by Deutsche Gramafon, who I am sure did Philips’ German pressings in the 60′s… it’s a great advertisement for the durability and longevity of vinyl recordings as a source of archive material. Well done everyone.
Dynamic Range Analysis:
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foobar2000 1.1.5 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2012-05-12 20:21:56
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Analyzed: Dusko Goykovich / Swinging Macedonia
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR13 -0.32 dB -16.60 dB 7:25 01-Macedonia
DR13 -2.76 dB -20.00 dB 5:03 02-Old Fisherman's Daughter
DR14 -0.71 dB -18.17 dB 3:50 03-Jumbo Uganda
DR12 0.00 dB -17.83 dB 4:12 04-The Gypsy
DR13 0.00 dB -15.76 dB 2:15 05-Macedonian Fertility Dance
DR14 -0.48 dB -18.01 dB 4:30 06-Bem-Basha
DR13 -1.05 dB -16.86 dB 4:17 07-Saga Se Karame
DR13 -0.51 dB -17.28 dB 4:03 08-Wedding March Of Alexander The Macedonian
DR14 -0.46 dB -18.65 dB 5:20 09-The Nights Of Skopje
DR13 -0.46 dB -17.09 dB 4:45 10-Balcan Blue
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Number of tracks: 10
Official DR value: DR13
Samplerate: 96000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 3089 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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