Led Zeppelin - I (1969) - 2000

Classic Records 200g LP (QUIEX SV-P 200) / SD 8216-200, USA

LP, Vinyl Rip, 24/96, FLAC (tracks+.cue)

Rip by aksman

Side one

 01. "Good Times Bad Times" John Bonham/John Paul Jones/Jimmy Page 2:47
 02. "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" Page/Robert Plant/Anne Bredon 6:41
 03. "You Shook Me" Willie Dixon/J. B. Lenoir 6:30
 04. "Dazed and Confused" Page (as listed in the song credits on the album) 6:27

Side two

 01. "Your Time Is Gonna Come" Jones/Page 4:34
 02. "Black Mountain Side" Page 2:13
 03. "Communication Breakdown" Bonham/Jones/Page 2:30
 04. "I Can't Quit You Baby" Dixon 4:43
 05. "How Many More Times" Bonham/Jones/Page 8:28

Personnel

Led Zeppelin

 Jimmy Page – acoustic, electric and pedal steel guitar, backing vocals, production
 Robert Plant – lead vocals, harmonica
 John Bonham – drums, timpani, backing vocals
 John Paul Jones – bass guitar, organ, keyboards, backing vocals

Additional personnel

 Chris Dreja – back liner photo
 Peter Grant – executive producer
 George Hardie – cover design
 Viram Jasani – tabla on "Black Mountain Side"
 Glyn Johns – engineering, mixing

Mastered by Bernie Grundman @ Grundman Mastering, Hollywood 

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

 Vacuum cleaning > TT > Brocksieper Phonomax > E-MU 0404 > WaveLab 6 (24/192) > manual click removal >
 analyze (no clipping, no DC Bias offset) > resampling and dithering with iZotope RX Advanced 2.00
 > split into individual Tracks > FLAC encoded (Vers. 1.21)

 No silence been removed, please burn gapless to match original tracklayout.

Personal Note (from aksman)

 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.