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I decided to rip all my Italo Disco vinyls I own so far.

I start with The Best of Italo Disco vol. III.

Equipment and technical details

Turntable: Stanton T.60
It doesn't have many functions for DJs but it has the best sound in its price category which is more important to me as I'm not a DJ.

Phono amp: Swissonic USB Studio. I only use the phono amplifier and use the analogue output directly to go into my better …

Audio interface: Phonic Firefly 808 Universal via FireWire.

I record everything in 32bit, 88.2 kHz. With these settings I have the best possible resolution to make slight editing and equalising if necessary.
I don't cut any musical transients, I use a limiter only to make sure to have a 0.3 db headroom at the end. Also I remove loud vinyl crackle noise manually. It takes more time like that but I want to make sure that there is no other loss in the music, so no plugins are used to do this automatically.

The output format is FLAC 24bit, 88.2 kHz (except TBoID3 with only 44.1 kHz for now) and MP3 320kbps. I upload folders on mega so you can either download single files or the entire folders as zip files.

The Best of Italo Disco vol. III



FLAC:

MP3

Tracklist:

The Best of Italo Disco vol. 5



FLAC:

MP3:

Tracklist:

Play loud and enjoy the full dynamic range of these songs!

This post has been edited by Teh Asphyx on Apr 18 2016, 03:12 AM

Thanks for the share it looks great! I'll have to check this out when I get home for sure.

I can talk about these all things with passion over and over 24 hours, but these really technical features are for me a dark deep hole with lack of knowledge.

Friend ! If you know more than we all together here or on Eurobeat Prime, find, meet people, which can help you to uncover your skills and use this for real good, professional production !

Thanks, that's really nice from you to say. Sadly, I don't have any contacts. I spent the last years working for someone who kept me in the basement (metaphorically speaking) and instead of receiving money for my work, I'm in debt now.
The only thing that left are my songs and my experience I made. But I have to start from the beginning with coming out of my isolation and get new contacts.
So I'm trying my best to make people happy with my skills like putting my music online, ripping my vinyls of niche music and hope to be recognised one day. One famous Eurobeat producer told me that I can't plan success, the only thing I can do is to put things into circulation and the more things I put into circulation the more it's likely that there will be the one right thing to make an impact. I think these are wise words.

Who ? Secret from the private conversation?

Why do you save at 24/44.1? Imo, record at 24/96. You are saving yourself a 32-bit -> 24-bit downsampling & dithering process. Also, save your lossless in the format you are recording too. People who searches for those rips will probably ask for these very high-res files. Are they gigantic in file size? Yes. 24/44.1 in this case seems like a lost opportunity for collectors and audiophiles.

I can tell you why I'm doing it that way. First of all forget about multiples of 12 kHz (24, 48, 96, 192) for music. This is a format used for video sound. If you are working with audio only, always use multiples of 10.025 kHz (22.05, 44.1, 88.2, 176.4). Cross sampling between these two is always too lossy. Downsampling was okay in this case because the original music already had a high cut. I see that very often. But as soon as I digitalise a recording without high cut I will use 88.2 for export too.
Using 32 bit for recording is better because I can use more headroom with the higher dynamic range. Vinyl crackles can cause very loud transients that can lead to distortion. However after removing them by hand and normalising the rest, I can reduce the bitrate to 24 without any loss of quality.

This post has been edited by Teh Asphyx on Apr 11 2016, 10:10 PM

With your logic, we can only listen to 44.1KHz audio. We can't have 96KHz for listening because, apparently, we don't use it for video production. I'd only agree with you if you were in audio PRODUCTION; then, having 24//88.2KHz hi-res files, having in mind CDDA production down the line is OK. However, a lot of people having listening, collecting and ripping rips at this resolution in order to preserve the vinyl's sound; obvious cut off or not at 44.1KHz. Also, a lot of them have equipment for proper playback that WILL take advantage of better frequency range. It may have no "sound energy" past a certain frequency but, you may not care, but some do anyway.

Yes, I agree that you should always downsample from 96KHz -> 48KHz, 88.2KHz -> 44.1KHz; otherwise it creates artifacts. Even then, there's nothing wrong to listen to 96KHz files. People who prefers smaller sized FLAC will download your 24/44.1. Those who wants a pure-er rip will download the 24/88.2 or 24/96.

Also, when downsampling this, do you even use the right tools? You are not just using dbPowerAmp right? I really hope you are using SoX...

Y'all niggas need to realize.

Okay, I'll upload again with 24/88.2 as soon as I have electricity again in my house …

I'm using the DAW I paid a lot of money for, in this case it's Cubase with Voxengo Elephant for dithering.

@ kyonpalm

With a 44.100 kHz sampling rate you still have lots of losses below 22.050 kHz. The audio signal would have to be in complete sync with the AD converter which is impossible. If the AD converter doesn't get the exact peaks of the incoming signal it will assume that the peak is exactly at the point when it goes into the converter.
That's the reason CDs don't sound quite as good as vinyl.

Hey Teh Asphyx many thanks for this excellent share, i love italo Disco so keep them coming

The Best of Italo Disco Vol. 5 is now online.

I'd have to rerecord Vol. III for 88.2 kHz export. I don't know when that will happen because I want to record other stuff first. So until then you have to live with 44.1 kHz.

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This post has been edited by eXtaticus on Dec 19 2017, 04:19 PM