My Analogue Front-End - Sample Recordings

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Gliding Dutchman

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I just completed a little project where I recorded a few tracks from my favorite records onto CD to send to a friend in Stellenbosch - for him to get an idea how my analogue front-end sounds like.

Anybody done something similar?

Anybody interested in the sample CD I made?

Recording specs:
  • 48 kHz
    16 Bit
    Stereo
    PCM Wave

Equipment List:
  • pickup
    Dewaudio ?Limited Edition? Stereo Moving Coil PU

    tonearm
    SME 3012 Series II

    turntable
    Dewaudio Credence + External PSU

    riaa pre-amp
    Pro-Ject Phonobox II (modified)

    adc converter
    Creative Live Sound

    monitors
    Bowers & Wilkins Preference 6 Time Aligned Monitors

    amplifier
    Valve Audio Exclame 100

    headphone monitors
    AKG K240

    editing
    Sonic Foundry Sound Forge

    cables
    Nordost & Van Den Hul


My tracklist:
  • 01] C'etait Toi (You were the one) - Billy Joel - Glass Houses
    CBS / C+P 1980 / South Africa

    02] Last train to Clarksville - George Benson - Benson Collection
    Warner Bros. Records / USA Pressing / C 1981

    03] Lucky Day - Polly Bergen - CBS Stereo Sampler
    CBS / P 1965 (??)

    04] It never entered my mind - Miles Davis - Best of
    Roots Record Company / P 1980

    05] Nightfly - Donal Fagen - The Nightfly
    Warner Bros. Records / German Pressing / C+P 1982

    06] Still believing - Mary Black - Babes in the wood
    Pure Pleasure Records / 180 gram / C+P 1991

    07] s' Wonderful - Diana Krall - Very best of D Krall
    Verve / 180 gram / C 2007

    08] Tango Nights - Antonio Forcione - Dedicato
    The NAIM Label / 180 gram / P 1998 / C 2004

    09] Versatile (Bolling) - Jean-Pierre Rampal - Suite for Fluite and Jazz Piano
    CBS Columbia / C 1975

    10] Dance me till the end of love - Madelein Peyroux - Careless Love
    Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab / 180 gram / P 2004 / Half Speed Production

    11] Closer - Steve Strauss - Vinyl Collection
    Stockfisch Records / 180 gram / C+P 2006

    12] Stars - Sara K - Vinyl Collection
    Stockfisch Records / 180 gram / C+P 2006

    13] The man with the child in his eyes - Christene Collister - Love
    Rega Research Ltd / 180 gram / C+P 2005

    14] Straberry Fields Forever - The Beatles - 1967-1970
    Apple Records / Stereo / P 1967

    15] High Hopes - Pink Floyd - Echoes
    EMI Records / 180 gram box set / C 2001

    16] Brown Eyes - Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
    Warner Bros. Records / P 1979

    17] Aranjues Mon Amour - Biddu Orchestra - Blue-eyed Soul
    CBS Inc. / Epic Records / P 1975

    18] The Drycleaner from Des Moines  - Joni Mitchell - Shadows And Light
    Asylum Records / September 1979

Direct recording without any electronic alterations.

This is not a substitute for the real thing but can give an approximate idea of how an analogue system can sound.

GD

 
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