Stevie Wonder - Talking Book (1972) - 2011, Vinyl Rip

Stevie Wonder - Talking Book (1972) - 2011

MFSL Silver Label LP, MOFI 1-009, USA

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

Rip by aksman

Side one

01 - "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" (Wonder) ΓÇô 2:58
02 - "Maybe Your Baby" (Wonder) ΓÇô 6:51
03 - "You and I (We Can Conquer the World)" (Wonder) ΓÇô 4:39
04 - "Tuesday Heartbreak" (Wonder) ΓÇô 3:02
05 - "You've Got It Bad Girl" (Wonder, Yvonne Wright) ΓÇô 4:56

Side two

06 - "Superstition" (Wonder) ΓÇô 4:26
07 - "Big Brother" (Wonder) ΓÇô 3:34
08 - "Blame It On the Sun" (Wonder, Syreeta Wright) ΓÇô 3:26
09 - "Lookin' for Another Pure Love" (Wonder, S. Wright) ΓÇô 4:44
10 - "I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever)" (Wonder, Y. Wright) ΓÇô 4:51

Malcolm Cecil - Programming, Engineer, Associate Producer
Robert Margouleff - Engineer, Associate Producer, Photography
Austin Godsey - Engineer, Recording
Joan Decola - Recording

Produced by Stevie Wonder.

Mastered by Paul Stubblebine on 'Gain2 Ultra Analog System'

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.