Fleetwood Mac - Need Your Love So Bad {Original UK Mono 45}
24bit/96kHz (Hi-Rez Audio for DVD Burning)
01. Need Your Love So Bad
02. Stop Messin' Round (Take 5)
Both tracks Mono and officially unavailable on CD or 33rpm LP.
Producer: Mike Vernon
Engineer: Mike Ross
Recorded at CBS Studio, New Bond Street, London. April 28, 1968
Hardware:
- Technics 1210mk2
- Jelco SA-750D Tonearm (w/ JAC 501 cable)
- Audio Technica AT33PTG MC
- Pro-Ject Tube Box SE-2
- Yamaha CA-1010
- RME ADI-2 A/D Interface
Software:
- Audition 3.0 used for adjusting DC bias, editing, (incl. manual removal of clicks
and pops), adding gain and making the cue points.
- Click Repair 3.7 used with setting Cl: 5, Cr: 0
- CueListTool v1.7 & Mediaval CueSplitter used for generating the .cue's & .m3u's.
Transfer & Restoration by Prof. Stoned
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Prof. sez:
Another one in the series "essential in mono but not available on cd". This was the band's 3rd UK
single and the last one to receive a separate mono mix.
As with the first two UK singles, the original 45 mixes have not been available for very long.
Five of those six sides were remixed to stereo in 1969 for the compilation album "Pious bird of good
omen", and those are the versions we have heard for the last 45 years. On this A-side, the strings
are quite different from the 1969 remix, and it has a much fatter sound. The B-side is a different
recording from the version on "Mr. Wonderful" (Take 4). Take 5 was not remixed to stereo until the
90's and instead the album version was used on subsequent FM compilation albums. Again, the 45 mix
sounds much better and more authentic.
I have been actively looking for quality copies of this single for more than five years. Although
medium scarce, the challenge was to find one without groovewear, which considering the delicate loud
cutting on both sides is quite an undertaking. Many were auditioned and did not make the grade. And
when I finally had two clean sounding copies at my disposal, they were still notable differences in
playback quality. Each side here came from a different copy, but luckily no patch work was needed.
Side A came out pretty clean, but you may notice that the other side is still a bit hot sounding.
The record was professionally and carefully cleaned in three steps using Audio Intelligent’s
Enzymantic formula, Super Cleaner Formula, and Ultra pure water on a VPI 16.5 (using VPI brushes) &
Nitty Gritty mini-pro 2. I manually declicked the wave file (after Click Repair had already been
applied with a light setting) to make sure the cleanest and most natural sounding result possible
was achieved.
Enjoy!