Tony Bennett - The Art Of Excellence (1986) - VINYL, promo - 24-bit/96kHz plus CD-compatible format
Tony Bennett - The Art Of Excellence (1986) - VINYL
Vinyl rip in 24-bit/96kHz | FLAC (5% Recovery) | m3u's, md5 checksum, no cue or log (vinyl) | RS + FileFactory
690 MB (24/96) or 200 MB redbook | Artwork | Jazz Pop Vocal | 1986
Vinyl rip in 24-bit/96kHz | FLAC (5% Recovery) | m3u's, md5 checksum, no cue or log (vinyl) | RS + FileFactory
690 MB (24/96) or 200 MB redbook | Artwork | Jazz Pop Vocal | 1986
This album marked Tony Bennett's return to recording after half a dozen years, his return to Columbia Records after 14 years, and the beginning of the third stage in his career
Tony's comeback set. It's ok. The review pretty much nails it. And remember when CD's had "bonus" tracks to get you to buy them? Well the cd version has a couple extra tracks. See below. The liner notes say it's a fully digital recording. The LP was mastered by none other than Robert Ludwig. The spectral view does show some haircut at 22k, but it's healthy looking enough.
Had two copies of this, neither of which was ripping well. They LOOKED mint, but played rough. Then at Record Surplus's sale (during which, the upstairs blowout $1 LP's are 3/$1) I found this copy. MINTMINTMINT. Open, but seemingly unplayed. I knew it was a winner. Every copy of the LP I've seen has the gold promo stamp on the back. Funny.
Enjoy, please.
From allmusic:
Review by William Ruhlmann
"This album marked Tony Bennett's return to recording after half a dozen years, his return to Columbia Records after 14 years, and the beginning of the third stage in his career. Back with the Ralph Sharon Trio and backed by The U.K. Orchestra, Bennett demonstrated that he had spent his time off from recording gathering a bunch of good songs and refining his singing. The older material, such as "A Rainy Day" and "I Got Lost In Her Arms," were better than the new discoveries, like "How Do You Keep The Music Playing?" and "Everybody Has The Blues," but the new ones weren't bad, and with this album Bennett joined and helped to lead the swelling trend toward classic pop. It became his best-selling album in 15 years."
01 - Why Do People Fall In Love.flac
02 - Moments Like This.flac
03 - What Are You Afraid Of.flac
04 - When Love Was All We Had.flac
+05 - So Many Stars.flac
06 - Everybody Has The Blues.flac
07 - How Do You Keep The Music Playing.flac
08 - City Of Angels.flac
09 - Forget The Woman.flac
+10 - A Rainy Day.flac
11 - I Got Lost In Her Arms.flac
12 - The Day You Leave Me.flac
+ = CD version only
No music was harmed in the making of this vinyl rip.
This is what I do in general. Not every step is done for all rips:
LP > Rega P1 with Ortofon Super 30 > TC-750LC > E-Mu 0202 > Adobe Audition 3 (AA) @ 96kHz 32bit float > Manual click removal in AA > Click Repair set @ 20 > AA used to balance L/R > (for MONO: Equalizer (from the ClickRepair guy) used to combine L+R >) AA to split tracks, fade in/out, and for manual click removal >
for 24bit: use AA to truncate the 32bit file >
for 16bit: Izoptope RX Advanced to resample the 32bit file to 44.1kHz > and then to dither to`16bit using MBIT+ >
All > Trader's Little Helper to FLAC and (for 16bit: sector align if necessary, pad) > MP3 Tagger to edit tags.
"16bit" = 16bit at 44.1kHz
"24bit" = 24bit at 96kHz
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