Supertramp Rick Davies - keyboards, vocals
John Helliwell - saxophones, vocals, woodwinds
Roger Hodgson - guitars, keyboards, vocals
Bob Siebenberg - drums
Dougie Thomson - bass
Other performers Slyde Hyde - trombone, tuba
Production (Original Release)
Producers: Peter Henderson, Supertramp
Rehearsal: Southcombe Studios, Burbank, CA
Recording: The Village Recorder/Studio B, Los Angeles, CA
Mixing: Crystal Sound/Studio B, Los Angeles, CA
Engineer: Peter Henderson of Air London
Assistant engineers: Lenise Bent, Jeff Harris
Dynamic Range analyzis
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Analyzed folder: D:\Supertramp - Breakfast in America (1979) [flac] {A&M Audiophile Series LP; 16-44}\
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DR Peak RMS Filename
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DR13 -0.42 dB -18.39 dB A1 - Gone Hollywood.wav
DR14 -0.68 dB -17.53 dB A2 - The Logical Song.wav
DR14 -1.28 dB -19.61 dB A3 - Goodbye Stranger.wav
DR15 -2.32 dB -19.76 dB A4 - Breakfast in America.wav
DR13 -1.30 dB -16.92 dB A5 - Oh Darling.wav
DR13 -6.14 dB -22.42 dB B1 - Take the Long Way Home.wav
DR14 -3.98 dB -23.17 dB B2 - Lord Is It Mine.wav
DR13 -0.57 dB -17.10 dB B3 - Just Another Nervous Wreck.wav
DR11 -8.96 dB -22.60 dB B4 - Casual Conversations.wav
DR14 -0.83 dB -18.17 dB B5 - Child of Vision.wav
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Number of files: 10
Official DR value: DR13
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 1.21 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) > converted to 24/96 (16/44.1) with iZotope RX Advanced 1.21
> split into individual Tracks > FLAC encoded (Vers. 1.21)
No silence been removed, please burn gapless to match original tracklayout.
Personal Note :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.