Technical Log
Vacuum cleaning machine: PHK NANO MECO
Vinyl Cleaning Process:
• 5 - 30 min ZYX Cleaner (According to vinyl conditions)
• Vacuum on
• Vacuum off with PHK Cleaner
• Vacuum on
Turntable: Salvation (From the same creator of Trans-Fi Terminator T3Pro)
Strobe 60 Hz with Strobe Rings
Record Clamp
Tonearm: Trans-Fi Audio Terminator T3Pro tangential tracking air bearing tonearm with Tomahawk Armwand
Antistatic Record Cleaning ARM
Cartridge: Denon DL-103R
Phono Stage: F-117 Nighthawk (Ray Samuels Audio). MC, MM phono stage. Lithium ion operated. (100ohms)
ADC: Focusrite ISA One Digital to S/PDIF of MACKIE ONYX-400F Studio Recording Preamp with 64-bit floating point processing.
Softwares:
• SoX v14.4.0 for recording at 192 kHz / 24 bit
• CLickRepair 3.8.4 (Build45e): DeClick 5/Simple/Reverse and Manual mode
• SoX v14.4.0 for resampling to 96 kHz (-v -s)
• Secret Rabbit Code for resampling/dithering to 44.1 kHz / 16 bit (Quality: "Best")
• shntool for Redbook SBE correction
• foobar2000 for enconding to flac level 8, tagging, cue, m3u and DR Analysis v1.1.1
• SoX v14.4.0 for Spectrogram files
• HashCheck v2.1.11 for md5 file creation
Process:
Vacuum cleaning > Salvation > F-117 > Focusrite > MACKIE > SoX > ClickRepair > Split into individual tracks >
SoX (96 kHz) & SRC (44.1 kHz / 16 bit) > shntool > foobar2000 > SoX (Spectrogram) > HashCheck
No noise reduction.
No silence been removed, please burn gapless to match original tracklayout.
Hope you enjoy!