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Elton John - Rock Of The Westies (1975 Us Mca Records Mca 2163 24-96 Needledrop)(Farfig)

Track listing:
  1. Medley (Yell Help, Wednesday Night, Ugly) 6:21
  2. Dan Dare (Pilot Of The Future) 3:31
  3. Grow Some Funk Of Your Own 4:46
  4. I Feel Like A Bullet (In The Gun Of Robert Ford) 5:31
  5. Street Kids 6:24
  6. Hard Luck Story 5:16
  7. Feed Me 4:00
  8. Billy Bones And The White Bird 4:27

Notes


Hardware:

.......VPI 16.5 -> Sylvania ZQ012-A Steam Cleaner with R/O water -> (Greenology Organic Bathroom Cleaner 1st wash, Krud Kutter 2nd wash, Homemade 3rd wash, Mobile Fidelity Super Deep Cleaner OR Disc Doctor Miracle Cleaner 4th wash, pure R/O water 5th wash) -> Record Revirginizer -> Rega RP3 (modified with white belt, Audio Technica Disc Stabilizer AT-618, J.A. Michell adjustable VTA, Groovetracer Reference Subplatter, Groovetracer Delrin Platter, Dayton adjustable isolation feet, Q-up, Cardas Test LP, Hi-Fi News Test Lp 2, KAB Speed Strobe, MFSL Geo-Disc, Record Revirginizer -> AudioQuest Interconnects -> Rega TTPSU -> Milty Zerostat -> Audio Technica AT-OC9/III (Moving Coil) -> Pro-Ject Phono Box S -> Xonar D2 soundcard -> Gateway PC....

Software:

.......Wavelab 6 for 32-96 recording -> Import to Adobe Audition at 32Bit-96kHz for editing -> large clicks removed in Adobe Audition -> Normalized and saved to file -> Click repair with Izotope RX3 Advanced Level 1.5 -> Remaining clicks handled in Adobe Audition with "fill single click" tool -> dead wax may have been treated in Adobe Audition, but not in sections containing musical information -> Saved in Adobe Audition as 32Bit-96kHz -> dithered and/or re-sampled in Izotope RX3 Advanced -> converted to Flac level 8 with DB Poweramp -> tagged in foobar & DB Poweramp -> DR analysis in foobar.....

Artwork:

...........Scanned on Epson Artisan 730 -> Microsoft ICE v. 1.4.4.0 -> ArcSoft Photo Studio 5.5...........

Notes:

- No Redbook files, I've done all the hard work, you can convert them yourself (it's not so hard, you can do it!!!.....you really can!!!).............
- This is vinyl after all, there is some groove noise, but kept to a minimum..............
- ...............................................................................................................................Enjoy and Cheers!....