4th Organ Concerto in F Major by Handel. From the album ""Virgil Fox Plays The Baldwin Organ". This is Virgil playing at Church of The Good Shepherd, Episcopal, New York City, USA, on a 2-manual Baldwin Model 11 Analog Electronic Classical Organ. From a Vinyl LP 33 1/3 RPM record, year 1966, this is part 1. This LP is on the Command Records label, 15401SD. This is a re-upload, since the last time I uploaded this 3 years ago I wasn't happy with the LF problems (bumps) on this, due to the Technics SL7 record player that I was using at the time. I got rid of that player as I could not cure the problem. This time around, the record player used was my 1993 vintage second hand Technics SL-1210 MK2, stock configuration, with Stanton 500 MK2 cartridge and a Kyowa 500AL stylus (since the original Stanton D500AL MK2 stylus was faulty / got damaged by a previous owner) tracking at 3g Vertical Tracking Force and 3g Anti-Skate / Bias, using the included extra headshell weight (since cart was under 6g), cart set as parallel to the headshell as I could by eye, and stylus overhang set with the Technics 52mm overhang gauge, and running at 2mm Tone Arm Height (the adjustment was initially seized solid, I freed and serviced and relubricated it), and TT was levelled. TT spindle was lifted, swabbed with q-tip, and re-oiled with 3 drops of original correct Technics oil, as per user manual. This album is rare and LONG out of print and was never available on any other format as far as I am aware? The copy of the record that I have is unfortunately in rather bad condition with rather a lot of surface noise and quite a lot of bad scratches. I used a carbon fibre record cleaning brush on it and then an anti-static gun. The record has NOT been deep cleaned at this time, I tried to get it cleaned at local shop Kaleidoscope Records which has a VPI RCM but the person who served me had unfortunately had a stroke and could no longer operate the record cleaning machine. Beyond what I consider normal for vinyl, the only unwanted extra distortion is normally some odd stylus ringing noise from time to time between tracks, and the low frequency rumble is about normal for Vinyl, the frequency response is pretty good in the bass and treble. My turntable is properly electrically grounded, the TT is on a separate cabinet from my amplifier to prevent mechanical hum being captured from the amp. transformer. There is practically no distortion (mistracking) in either audio channel when I tested the TT with Lonnie Gordon Beyond Your Wildest Dreams 12" / 45 RPM, even on the Inner Grooves nearly at the end, beyond what I consider normal for vinyl. However, on this one particular record, there is very much more distortion than normal (for example compared to an RCA vinyl record of Virgil's from 1974) and also some bad noticeable hum! The LP was played with speakers off, through my Technics SU-V5 amp's preamp stage into a HHB CDR800 CD Recorder, monitoring on headphones, and then the CD was ripped into the PC. I have enlarged and moved around the album text on the rear of the album cover a bit, and got rid of the yellowed cover! This has been De-Clicked in RX5 audio editor from Izotope (in the built in declick module), as it has practically no audible artefacts with the sound. I am using the trial version here. I also had to use De-Hum to get rid of the bad hum in the recording which was only coming from this one record, I checked and other records had no bad hum in them. The hum was at 60.07 Hz, so as far as I can tell, came from the recording session! Since USA has 60Hz mains and I am in 50Hz country LOL. Unfortunately since the trial version of RX5 won't allow saving or copying, I have had to play the declicked version out in real time through my VGN-CS21S laptop and back into my CD Recorder in order to record it to disc to get it back into the digital domain once more for upload to Youtube, resulting in some added A/D converter noise from the "cheap and nasty" electronics in my laptop's audio output.
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