Original Holland pressing, Omega International – OM 444.022
Deadwax info: A: AA 444 022 G 1Y 1 670 121 / B: AA 444 022 G 2Y 1 670 121
Equipment:
* Vpi HW-17F Record Cleaning Machine
* Technics SL 1210 MK II T/T
* Rega RB 300 Tonearm
* Denon DL 304 M/C Cartridge
* Cambridge Audio AZUR640P M/C Stage
* M-Audio Profire 610 Multichannel 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
Artwork:
Source: The album
Quality: Good (96 dpi)
Contains: Various sleeve and label artwork.
This LP’s school report: (A),
Condition: NM
Another rare Dutch pressing – and a good one too. Clean and didn’t need much declicking at all so managed to preserve that fuzz guitar pretty goood!
Dynamic Range Analysis:
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foobar2000 1.1.13 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2012-07-27 18:45:33
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Analyzed: Nico Gomez And His Afro Percussion Inc. / Ritual
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR13 -0.22 dB -15.51 dB 3:16 01-Caballo Negro
DR13 -1.21 dB -15.66 dB 4:51 02-Naci Para Bailar
DR13 -0.26 dB -14.74 dB 3:30 03-Cuba Libre
DR13 -1.21 dB -18.66 dB 3:11 04-Samba De Una Nota So
DR12 -0.18 dB -15.38 dB 3:07 05-Baila Chibiquiban
DR12 -0.70 dB -16.95 dB 3:46 06-El Condor Pasa
DR13 -0.18 dB -15.43 dB 3:46 07-Lupita
DR14 -1.21 dB -16.52 dB 4:51 08-Pa! Pa! Pa! Pa!
DR13 -0.12 dB -15.54 dB 3:59 09-Ritual
DR14 -1.21 dB -17.02 dB 3:47 10-Eso Es El Amor
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Number of tracks: 10
Official DR value: DR13
Samplerate: 96000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 2895 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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