Post Your Needledrops (Part Four)

And here's a song sample rip.

Talk Talk - It's My Life (It's My Life, 1984, EMI America Records)

Same setup as usual. This is a song a lot of you should know -- thoughts on this rip?

 

Neil Diamond - Cracklin' Rosie (1970, Tap Root Manuscript, Uni Records)

Cleaned up from a $1 bin copy.

 

^ Two favorites, both sound great Ben, Especially that Diamond, I think you've mastered the art, I'm doing the old Asia Alpha, I used to own this about 20 years, was stolen, just picked up another, I totally forgot how bright this album was

 

Oh man, yeah. A big problem with a lot of '80s vinyl in general.

And thanks for the compliment! I'm not really posting samples much anymore, time to leave it up to the new blood I think. But since Stefan had asked for the between-song samples, I figured I'd toss up a couple of things.

Plus, if something doesn't sound quite right, I know I can count on Grant to let me know.

 

Yeah odd about 80's albums, I have VanHalens 5150,OU812 that sound great, same with Glass Tigers albums, Dolby's as you know sound great, seems it affected early to mid 80's rock, Journey etc.., who knows I'm having fun

 

My Girlfriends Girlfriend gave about 200 7inch 45's awhile ago, Everything from Gabriel to Tears for Fears, 90% all 80's, love those b-sides anyhoots here's ABC's Be Near Me
http://www.sendspace.com/file/4rk0p5

 

Wow, sounding much better. Congratulations on the mat find.

 

Thanks! I now can't think of anything else to mod on this beast.

 

Stefan thanks for setting me strait on digital audio, sorry for slightly derailing the thread.

Congrats on the mat find Ben. I too found a fair amount of hum reduction from placing some Goldmund cones under my project I had a sample back a few days ago. I’m not sure if it is in the same league as your mat.

Here is the big point of this post I got my new Focusrite Forte and here is a sample. One is the Forte and one is the Echo2
http://www.sendspace.com/file/trbfnf

 

Stefan I just wanted you to know this process works like magic it just completely removes the click, Thanks


Sometimes you have a complete glitch that just won't go away. In such a case, you might try this one, which completely replaces the selection with an interpolation (guess) based on what's before and after the selection. This one only works on narrow selection that are less than 4000 samples or so.

 

You made me happy tonight, Ben! How'd you know that is my all-time favorite Neil Diamond song, and it brings back fond memories of my childhood, even if it is of being on the schoolyard before school started on one chilly November morning.

 

Cool! It's my fave too. A perfect song.

 

Reminds me that I should dig out a $4 mint copy I found of Taproot Manuscript back in 2006 after I started back into vinyl. It's one of those pre-oil crisis thick vinyl pressings and sounds good. Been too long since I dug it out.

 

I'm glad it worked for you. Keep practicing with the tools in RX. It's an amazing program for restoring needledrops.

 

I grabbed this $1 copy because I had ripped a friend's copy for them, but there was an issue with one track. This dollar bin copy let me fix the rip for them. If I see an inexpensive mint copy, I'll get it, because that original Uni pressing is audiophile quality.

 

I had just found a sealed copy of that the other day in a thrift store so I opened mine up and take a quick rip of it and started to worry about something funky going on at the 27 second mark in the song where I heard a dropout on the left channel. Then I listened to yours again and it was there too. Looks like a slip up somewhere when they mastered that album!

 

Any ideas how to make this better? This is that sample I posted a few days ago that had a pop during the last minute of side a. This time I used Stefans's setting in my last post and as you can hear removed all the pops I applied it on. There are still a few to clean up but what I concerned about is how far can you go on parts like this that are very low. It's right above all the record noise.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/puyx7i

I'm rippng a used copy of Porgy and Bess and it has a lot of noise. I'm going to take several days and need some more ideas.

 

Is this at a high declick setting already? I'm hearing a little distortion at a few points (like around 12 sec in) that sound like it could be the declicker, possibly.

I didn't read the earlier post, but possibly a better cleaning? I usually use wood glue + a SpinClean later to remove static, for those really scratchy records.

 

I ran clickrepair at 8 and possibly RX denoise. This was a record I bought new so I'm not so sure woodglue will help but the spin clean is worth a try.

 

Well I really like the Focusrite Forte!!!! It sounds a little bit better than the Echo2 but man is the control panel better. The levels are infinitely adjustable and I can do it from the control panel as well as the unit. It did have a similar noise but a ground lift on the laptop power supply removed it, which did not work on the Echo.

If you get a chance I’m interested in which of these 2 samples you think is better.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/trbfnf

 

Whoops! Meant to post somewhere else. Forget you saw this.

 

Porgy and Bess take 1 I did a clickrepair @ 10 and this RX denoise setting. I modified one that Stefan uses to lower the overal noise and 80% of it sounds ok (not to bad) Any ideas how to deal with small sections with a lot of static?
http://www.sendspace.com/file/j4bmk9

 

Too late!

 

Ben, again, I love "It's My Life" by Talk Talk! You must be my brother of another mother! But, I prefer the 45 mix to the album mix. Since I could never find the 45 mix on CD, I had to do a needledrop of my near-mint 45 that I bought when the record was a hit in 1984.

 

In a way, reading all the above de-noising and de-clicking discussions, I'm glad that I can live with all but the very worst pops on my rips, so I don't really feel the need to post process beyond manually removing big clicks and then just normalising volume.

Not that I'm knocking any of you that have got your process down - more power to you if you've persevered to get to that point.

I just think I'd go mental tying myself up in knots trying to get the process down and generic enough to not require too much ad-hoc tweakery on a case-by-case basis. I had a very little go, and that was enough to convince me of that.