Pete Townshend - Scoop (1983) - 2002, Vinyl Rip

Pete Townshend - Scoop (1983) - 2002

Classic Records 200g 2x LP-Set, EPR 006-20, USA

2LP, Vinyl Rip, 24/96, FLAC (tracks+.cue)

Rip by aksman

A1 - So Sad About Us/Brrr 4:41
A2 - Squeezebox 2:53
A3 - Zelda 2:23
A4 - Politician 3:35
A5 - Dirty Water 2:06
A6 - Circles 2:09
A7 - Piano: 'Tipperary' 1:00
Written-By ΓÇô Harry Williams, Jack Judge

B1 - Unused Piano: 'Quadrophenia' 2:32
B2 - Melancholia 3:14
B3 - Bargain 4:12
B4 - Things Have Changed 2:23
B5 - Popular 2:26
B6 - Behind Blue Eyes 3:25

C1 - The Magic Bus 4:20
C2 - Cache, Cache 3:42
C3 - Cookin' 3:18
C4 - You're So Clever 4:14
C5 - Body Language 1:58
C6 - Initial Machine Experiments 1:51

D1 - Mary 3:19
D2 - Recorders 1:17
D3 - Gone Fishin' 2:53
D4 - To Barney Kessell 1:58
D5 - You Came Back 4:03
D6 - Love Reign O'er Me 4:56

Credits
Artwork By [Art Direction] ΓÇô JB
Artwork By [Illustration] ΓÇô Ian Wright
Engineer ΓÇô Mike Pela
Engineer [Helping Hands] ΓÇô Chris Ludwinski, Pete Townshend
Executive Producer ΓÇô Spike
Photography ΓÇô Chris Morphet
Written-By ΓÇô Pete Townshend (tracks: A1 to A6, B1 to D6)

Technical Log

RCM Hannl 'limited' with "Rotating Brush"
Music Hall MMF 9.1 Turntable
Tonearm: Pro-Ject 9cc evo with Pure Silver Wires
Cartridge: Nagaoka MP-500
Brocksieper Phonomax (Tube Phono PreAmp)
E-MU 0404 external USB 2.0 Audiointerface
Interconnections : Silent Wire NF5
WaveLab 6 recording software
iZotope RX Advanced 2.00 for resampling and dithering

Vacuum cleaning > TT > Brocksieper Phonomax > E-MU 0404 > WaveLab 6 (24/192) > manual click removal >
analyze (no clipping, no DC Bias offset) > resampling and dithering with iZotope RX Advanced 2.00
> split into individual Tracks > FLAC encoded (Vers. 1.21)

No silence been removed, please burn gapless to match original tracklayout.

Personal Note (from aksman)

With my vinyl transfers, I try to catch the whole beauty of vinyl records; therefore I don't use any post-processing or any sound improvement. What you get is a clear and flat transfer. For getting a clear sound, I'll do an extended washing of each record with my RCM, which can take up to 30 minutes brushing on each side. Resistant ticks and clicks I try to remove as good as possible, but the priority is not to lose any musical information in the process. Surface noises, as long they are not too high, are left in place. Only on bad pressings or on records recorded at extremely low levels do I use a fade in-/-out. As John Peel said, "Life is full of surface noises." In some cases this means that I have to make a compromise.... The result has to pass my personal quality criteria, which is IMO quite high.