[24/96] Dire Straits - Communique - 1979, Vinyl Rip

Dire Straits - Communiqué - 1979

Warner Brothers, HS 3330, Original US Pressing

24/96, Vinyl Rip, 24/96, FLAC (tracks), .m3u

Rip by PBTHAL VINYL RIPS

Tracklist:

Side 1

 "Once Upon a Time in the West" – 5:25
 "News" – 4:14
 "Where Do You Think You're Going?" – 3:49
 "Communiqué" – 5:49

Side 2

 "Lady Writer" – 3:45
 "Angel of Mercy" – 4:36
 "Portobello Belle" – 4:29
 "Single-Handed Sailor" – 4:42
 "Follow Me Home" – 5:50 

Vinyl Ripping Process/Equipment

Vinyl Cleaning Process
- 3 Liter Ultrasonic Cleaner (Tap water with Sporicidin) on custom rotating assembly at 1 RPM for one hour
 - Vacuum off with Nitty Gritty 
 - AIVS Premium Record Cleaner Formula No. 15 applied with Mofi Brush while rotating on VPI 16.5
 - McCulloch MC-1275 Heavy-Duty Steam Cleaner applied with Mofi Brush while rotating on VPI 16.5
 - Vacuum off with VPI 16.5
 - L'Art du Son Record Cleaning Fluid applied with VPI Bristle brush
 - Vacuum off with VPI 16.5
 - Whole Foods Deionized Water applied with Mofi Brush (Separate from AIVS Mofi Brush)
 - Vacuum off with VPI 16.5
 - Flip record and repeat
 - Place record on Plate Demgnetizer
Turntable Equipment Profile
- VPI Scoutmaster with inverted bearing and 300 RPM motor
 - VPI Center Record Weight
 - VPI Periphery Ring Clam 
 - Gingko Cloud 11 Vibration Control Platform 
 - VPI Synchronous Drive System turntable motor speed controller and line isolator 
 - Trans-Fi Audio Terminator T3Pro tangential tracking air bearing tonearm 
 - Zyx Airy 3X-SB cartridge
Phono Stage Profile
- Musical Surroundings Phonomena Phono Preamplifier 
 - Musical Surroundings Battery Power Supply 
Analog/Digital Convertion
- E-MU 1212M (the 1212M contains the same A/D converters used in Digidesign's ProTools HD 192 I/O interface)
 - Adobe Audition 3.01 running on Windows XP in a Shuttle PC form factor
Post Processing Of Audio
- Run thru ClickRepair(if necessary) at level 7 with
 - Pitch Protection | off
 - Reverse | on
 - Simple
 - Resample to 96khz in Izotope Rx2 using the default preset
 - Manually listen to album in Adobe Audition cleaning any clicks/anomalies
 - Flac with Xrecode II for hi-rez files
 - Flac with Trader's Little Helper for redbook files