Hello again everybody! Before I go any further, if you wrote me and I haven't responded yet, please give me a little more time as I will be replying to all my e-mails shortly. Writing on a BlackBerry sucks. Anyway, a ton has happened. I got a new place, all the important stuff is moved in and installed, and I got fired from the job I've done more or less for the last nine years over some shit I really didn't have anything to do with. Totally SUCKS. So I'm looking for work as I write this but I don't think that will interfere with the site. With that said, I've got a lot of stuff I'll be posting over the next few days but first I want to roll out a new feature called N.I.C.E. Vinyl. The acronym stands for Nightmare Induction Ceremony Excerpt, and doesn't mean anything other than manual declicking is a bitch. Whenever you see a post with N.I.C.E. Vinyl in the title, that post will feature a vinyl rip from my collection available for download as a 16 Bit FLAC and a V0 MP3. There is no specific schedule as to when these will appear nor is there a method as to what is chosen other than the content having to be awesome and not readily available through general channels. Even more so, I want to make it clear that I am in no way on the same level as folks like PBthal, aksman, Kel Bazar or any of the other brilliant vinyl rippers out there. My setup is quite good but it's nowhere as nice as any of theirs and I will not pretend it is. And with that mention, it's about time I explain the details of my setup and these rips.
I have a Technics Quartz SL-QD33 automatic turntable with a Shure M99E cartridge. Unless otherwise noted, this is the turntable I use for all my vinyl rips. I use a BBE Phono Preamp which I run through a Creative X-Fi USB soundcard. All my rips are recorded at 96khz in 24 Bit via SoundForge. Unless otherwise noted I perform all declicking manually which means you may find some pops and clicks from time to time, although I pride myself on removing the really big or problems noises. Afterward, I resample all files to 44.1khz and convert the Bit rate to 16 Bits via SoundForge. These wave files are then converted to FLAC and V0 MP3 via foobar2000 which I also use to add tags. The files are then added to .RAR files with additional recovery data always included.
Now, if you read that and thought to yourself "Hmmm, does this mean that he keeps the 24 Bit versions as well? Will he share them here?", the answers are yes and no. Yes, I always keep the original 24 Bit files which are what the 16 Bit versions will always be derived from but no, I won't be sharing them, at least not here. Rather, I have a buddy named Trey who will be uploading those rips to a certain private tracker. What tracker might that be??? I'm sure you can figure that out, although he or myself may also occasionally share them at the green demon's place.
Please feel free to share my rips if you want to, just give me credit if you're posting them on other blogs or trackers and include my ripping setup info if possible. Here though, I will never include the name of the record I've ripped in the title of the post just in case anyone wanted to remove it if they found it via a google search. I know, that sucks, but I hate to spend all that time uploading a vinyl rip only to have to do it again. So if you want to cut through the crap, just click on the label/tag for N.I.C.E. Vinyl below which will be included with every one of these types of posts. For now though, let's get on to the music in question.
Today's post is one I've never seen anywhere online, at least not in lossless format and not from a transcoded source. It is My Bloody Valentine's Glider EP Remixes 12" and contains Andrew Weatherall's remix of Soon and Kevin Shields' long version of Glider. The Weatherall remix has been released digitally on several occasions but this is the only official source of the long version of Glider, a downright unforgivable oversight on someone's part. It's ten minutes of feedback loops that will send you to the edge of the universe and back. Totally incredible!
I did very little declicking on Soon but did a lot of work on the intro and outro of Glider. There is still a lot of vinyl noise on Glider though, although it's not terribly annoying and sounds a lot better than it used to. If you can do a better job of declicking my rip, please feel free to do so, but I'd love to hear from you afterward and check out your version so let me know. Otherwise, I've normalized each side to -.25 decibels and there was absolutely no clipping on the rip (I generally rip my vinyl at around -4 or -5 decibels and normalize the individual sides afterward before chopping them into individual tracks) so the only additional noise you'll hear is from the record itself. Please let me know what you think and I hope you enjoy!
My Bloody Valentine - Glider EP Remixes
FLAC
V0 MP3
01 The Andrew Weatherall Mix
02 Glider
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