Metroid Prime OST – Vinyl Rip

Hey guys! Do I have a treat for you!

I just got back from camp, and my dad purchased a Ion Audio Profile Pro LP Vinyl Turntable for his huge collection of LP’s.

Over camp, I did some research and decided to remaster the Metroid Prime OST the way professionals mastered albums for vinyl pressing. After they sounded decent, I sent the files to AGR Manufacturing for a personal pressing of the entire soundtrack when I was finished. It took up 4-and-a-half LP’s at 78rpm and was around 200 bucks for the top notch quality pressing, so I was very happy that I was able to get the entire soundtrack at a audiophile pressing quality.

The LP’s arrived at my house 3 days before I got home.

I just finished the ripping process a few hours ago.

Here’s what I did.

1. I ripped the entire soundtrack in 32/44.1 (44.1 because the CD sample rate was that, so there would be no point in recording higher)

2. Trimmed each song to be identical to the CD version, including the same lead-in and out time.

3. Removed the loud pops that were audible in the music with ClickRepair on manual setting.

4. Dithered with iZotope Ozone 4.

5. Compressed the soundtrack after naming etc. with MAX at the highest quality setting.

This is a treasure for all you Metroid fans! I hope you all enjoy this little project and since I had such a good outcome, be expecting more soundtracks on the way!

Download link: Metroid Prime Vinyl.rar (http://www.mediafire.com/?5psl6bwrcjwt2eo)

I’ll try and upload in FLAC, but don’t expect it…

This will not make anything sound better.

It’s not to make it sound better, it’s to add that analog feel and nostalgia to the album. If I was looking to make it higher quality I would update my remastered thread.
This is for vinyl lovers.

Lolol, I also just realized that your name "SmartOne" Is a great pun…

I’m honestly not sure I hear that big a difference honestly, other than feeling it might have a bit more compression (be it analog or max). Still, a good effort. I think a FLAC version would make more sense though, to make the little differences more detectable.

I’m honestly not sure I hear that big a difference honestly, other than feeling it might have a bit more compression (be it analog or max). Still, a good effort. I think a FLAC version would make more sense though, to make the little differences more detectable.

1. It’s not really the sound quality, its the fact its from a vinyl. If you don’t understand why somebody would want a soundtrack on vinyl, don’t bother even commenting.
2. You’re getting the word compression mixed up. There i compression of dynamics to make a recording louder, and there is compression to make the file smaller. Example: mp3 compression.

1. It’s not really the sound quality, its the fact its from a vinyl. If you don’t understand why somebody would want a soundtrack on vinyl, don’t bother even commenting.
2. You’re getting the word compression mixed up. There i compression of dynamics to make a recording louder, and there is compression to make the file smaller. Example: mp3 compression.

I didn’t get either of the two points confused. I never said I didn’t understand why you would do it either. I just said it didn’t stand out as an easily audible effect. And yes, I know what the difference is of a vinyl sound, and it DOES effect sound quality, just not necessarily in a negative or positive manner. I’m also not getting the word compression mixed up, I thought MAX was a loudness maximizer/limiter/compressor/etc, but re-reading your first post, that was my bad. To be fair, you didn’t clarify, but it is pretty obvious because you did it after dithering. So again, my bad. You put a lot of effort into your processes, so I find it odd that it wasn’t the highest quality it could be in. Also, you probably compressed the original dynamics in order to press it to vinyl. SO, it still may have had more compression than my previous copy. I know it’s hard to assume not everyone on the internet is ignorant, but there was nothing in my post that would make it seem that I am. Now, if your goal was just to be able to state that this copy was, in fact, from vinyl, the goal totally achieved. If you wanted it to have a vinyl ‘sound’, then I didn’t hear it. All I heard was what sounded like bad peak limiting. For all I know, that may have been in the original, it may have happened anywhere along the chain. Anyway, I was just trying to say my two cents and give some feedback. Perhaps you do not want this, it wasn’t said that you did, so that’s okay.

This is pretty neat. Thanks assett1!

That was a wild thing to do, to make a vinyl out of a CD, just like a lot of recording labels did it during the last days of commercial LP’s. Although I have to agree with the rest that in terms of sound quality or even the nostalgia feeling, it kinda fails. If you could get masters from the original recordings that are sometimes recorded in sample rates higher than CD’s 44.1 kHz and then record those high-rated audio into LP, it would be more worthy. Still, is quite a cool and expensive feat (I wouldn’t have it ripped to MP3, though, maybe just bluff about it and some samples). BTW, if you wanted the nostalgia feeling, you shouldn’t haved it de-popped/de-clicked and dithered.

I think because Metroid wasn’t recorded in analog, that tone isn’t present in the vinyl rip. It would probably work out better if I had the hi-fi files.
And sorry ninjafats, I didn’t mean to sound mean. Sorry for being blunt. >.< It’s hard to tell on the internet who’s happeh n who’s not haha. And, yes, I enjoy feedback. =)

Also, I am currently replicating a 50’s radio tone. I got a old radio from the 50’s and have been analyzing it’s tone, distortion level, hi freq. roll-off, etc and currently have a reproduced model in my DAW. What would you guys think about having a prime release of it? It’s a cool little artistic effect for those that don’t have the best speakers in the world haha. It’s cool to see how a lo-fi recording sounds good in any speaker, but when ou use a hi-fi recording, you can hear the quality of the speakers. I like having my +/- 1.3db flat response speakers sound as good as my laptop speakers, and my laptop speakers sounding as good as my good setup.

I’ll try to get a demo up later if you guys want to hear what I mean.

Edit: Here you go: http://www.mediafire.com/?ly1i7fg1r5g4edx
Pretty retro eh?

Downloaded, listening, and loving. Thank you for the crazy amount of time that probably went into this. It’s awesome.

Very cool idea and execution, I’d love to do that with the Yuzo Koshiro Streets of Rage soundtracks one day.

Thanks guys! Although there is some distortion, I think it’s from just going from digital to analog. Idk. It’s not bad peak limiting. It seems like there was too much bass in the master I guess. Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy it.