Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
Mobile Fidelity 180g / MFSL 1-120
Mastered by Stan Ricker @ MFSL, Los Angeles
Vinyl rip in 24-bit/96kHz | FLAC | No cue or log (vinyl) | Covers
~800 MB | RS & FF | Rock/Jazz | 1982
The Nightfly is the first solo album by Steely Dan co-founder Donald Fagen, released in 1982. It was one of the first fully digital recordings of popular music. In the UK the album was certified Platinum in 2004, despite only reaching #44 on the charts following its release. It has also gone platinum in America. This relatively low-key but long-lived popularity led the Wall Street Journal to dub the album "one of pop music's sneakiest masterpieces" upon the release of a 25th anniversary edition of The Nightfly in late 2007. Paul White, editor-in-chief of Sound On Sound Magazine, said The Nightfly "is always a good reference for checking out monitoring systems and shows what good results could be obtained from those early digital recording systems in the right hands.
Track Listing
All songs by Donald Fagen, except where noted
1. "I.G.Y. (International Geophysical Year)" – 6:05
2. "Green Flower Street" – 3:40
3. "Ruby Baby" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) – 5:38
4. "Maxine" – 3:50
5. "New Frontier" – 6:23
6. "The Nightfly" – 5:45
7. "The Goodbye Look" – 4:47
8. "Walk Between Raindrops" – 2:38
Ripping Equipment:
Technics SL-1200MK2 Turntable
Shure V-15 Type VxMR Cartridge
$ 300 Teac Solid State Receiver Preamp
Tascam US-144 external USB 2.0 Audiointerface
Monster Cable interconnects
Bias Peak LE 6 recording software
TT > Shure V15> Mac Pro Dual Xeon> Peak LE @ 24/96 > manual click removal
analyze (no clipping, no DC Bias offset) > Click Repair 3.01 - 10 Rev X2 > split into individual Tracks > FLAC encoded XLD 20090320
No silence been removed, please burn gapless to match original track layout.
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