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16 January 2024
Roy Francis, The Revolutionaries - Phase 1 Dub Wise Volume 2
I'm the one who did this restoration or "rip" as people like to call it. It's a bit sad that everyone among blogspots and Soulseek (except for a very low number of people) just deletes all the txt files that list my gear and what I did to the audio exactly. It's very important when dealing with vinyl records. It's useless otherwise.
*Record condition :* Old warehouse stock, possibly unplayed, slightly noisy here and there.
*Completion date :* December 2020
*Post Processing (in order) :*
• ClickRepair 3.9.9 / declick 40 - automatic disabled - Method : 3x - reverse - output : off (to speed things up) • iZotope RX8 for some difficult spots, or when it's better than ClickRepair (low frequency thumps for instance) • High pass filter -> Adobe Audition CC scientific filter, 17Hz/order 4/gain 0/Butterworth filter • iZotope Ozone Imager to reduce stereo image, original audio is practically mono anyway • Gain applied per record side with a -1dB target. • fadeout on groove noise at the end of every track
Scanned at 1200dpi, stitched and edited in Photoshop (jpeg quality at 10 on export). Descreen done in Gimp when needed (Descreen plugin). Final files resolution between 2500x2500 and 3000x3000 pixels.
*Notes : *
Late 80s reissue of that Roy Francis production featuring The Revolutionaries as the backing band and recorded at Channel One by Crucial Bunny. The album was initially released in the 70s under the "Revolutionaries - Dawn of Creation" name.
It has also been reissued on CD with the Phase One Dub Volume 1. Unfortunately, on that compilation, the volume one is a low quality vinyl transfer. Volume 2 is nice but with different equalization and some passages seem to be mixed slightly differently (instruments less of more forward), not drastic but I think the vinyl pressing is more "balanced", except for the tambourine hits on "Iniquity Workers", they hit hard, even with a cartridge like mine that has a progressive dip between 2 and 9 kHz .
The album is mono so after correcting any phase issues I mixed it down to mono and exceptionally downsampled it to 16/44. The reason behind this is that when this reissue was cut, a steep low pass filter was added, anything above 20kHz is cut. I always record at 32 (float)/96 for restoration and archival purposes nowadays (and keep original files) but it makes little sense to have final 24/96 files in this instance. As a result of 16/44 + mono treatment, Flac encoder can really shrink the size of those files with no quality loss.
If I manage to snatch a nice copy of the 70s original pressing for reasonable money I'll probably "upgrade" this transfer, unless it actually sounds worse. I paid very little for this copy but the original press isn't always in good shape and goes for way more so it's already fine as is.
very nice, easy dub album.Big Thanks! Does anyone have Linval Thompson albums in FLAC?
ReplyDeleteI'm the one who did this restoration or "rip" as people like to call it. It's a bit sad that everyone among blogspots and Soulseek (except for a very low number of people) just deletes all the txt files that list my gear and what I did to the audio exactly. It's very important when dealing with vinyl records. It's useless otherwise.
ReplyDeleteI don't have your text file (anymore) but can add it otherwise
Delete_Below is what was listed in the original file where I shared it originally._
ReplyDelete*Setup :*
Turntable : Technics SL-1200MK2
Tonearm : Jelco SA-750D with Ammonite Audio collar MK4
Cartridge : Audio-Technica AT33PTG/II loaded at 100 Ω
Phono Stage : ARCAM rphono
Soundcard : Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 (1st gen)
Recording software : Adobe Audition CC 2020
Bit Depth / Sample Rate used : 32/96
Matrix (A Side): PRF LP-005-A-1 MT
Matrix (B Side): PRF LP-005-B-1 RA4383 MT
*Record condition :* Old warehouse stock, possibly unplayed, slightly noisy here and there.
*Completion date :* December 2020
*Post Processing (in order) :*
• ClickRepair 3.9.9 / declick 40 - automatic disabled - Method : 3x - reverse - output : off (to speed things up)
• iZotope RX8 for some difficult spots, or when it's better than ClickRepair (low frequency thumps for instance)
• High pass filter -> Adobe Audition CC scientific filter, 17Hz/order 4/gain 0/Butterworth filter
• iZotope Ozone Imager to reduce stereo image, original audio is practically mono anyway
• Gain applied per record side with a -1dB target.
• fadeout on groove noise at the end of every track
*Downsampling/Transcoding :*
32/96 WAV -> 16/44 WAV (SoX 14.4.2, "sox -G -b 16 rate -v -L 44100 dither")
16/44 WAV -> 16/44 FLAC -8 (XRECODE 3 v1.106 with libFLAC encoder)
*Tagging :*
Tagscanner 6.1.6
*Sleeve/media artwork :*
Scanned at 1200dpi, stitched and edited in Photoshop (jpeg quality at 10 on export).
Descreen done in Gimp when needed (Descreen plugin).
Final files resolution between 2500x2500 and 3000x3000 pixels.
*Notes : *
Late 80s reissue of that Roy Francis production featuring The Revolutionaries as the backing band and recorded at Channel One by Crucial Bunny. The album was initially released in the 70s under the "Revolutionaries - Dawn of Creation" name.
It has also been reissued on CD with the Phase One Dub Volume 1. Unfortunately, on that compilation, the volume one is a low quality vinyl transfer. Volume 2 is nice but with different equalization and some passages seem to be mixed slightly differently (instruments less of more forward), not drastic but I think the vinyl pressing is more "balanced", except for the tambourine hits on "Iniquity Workers", they hit hard, even with a cartridge like mine that has a progressive dip between 2 and 9 kHz .
The album is mono so after correcting any phase issues I mixed it down to mono and exceptionally downsampled it to 16/44. The reason behind this is that when this reissue was cut, a steep low pass filter was added, anything above 20kHz is cut. I always record at 32 (float)/96 for restoration and archival purposes nowadays (and keep original files) but it makes little sense to have final 24/96 files in this instance. As a result of 16/44 + mono treatment, Flac encoder can really shrink the size of those files with no quality loss.
If I manage to snatch a nice copy of the 70s original pressing for reasonable money I'll probably "upgrade" this transfer, unless it actually sounds worse. I paid very little for this copy but the original press isn't always in good shape and goes for way more so it's already fine as is.
Also ignore the asterisks and underscores, it should have put the text in bold or italics but it didn't work (google comments formatting is very bad).
ReplyDeleteThanks, it is added now in a text file to the upload
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