C Cat Trance - C Cat Trance
Ripped from a vinyl album released on Red Flame Records (RFM 19) in 1983 to high resolution 24-bit flac. On first listen to C Cat Trance's debut you'd think they came from Sheffield - they certainly have that Hula/Chakk/Slab! hard indie funk vibe which is always appreciated here at ESWA Towers. C Cat Trance (as daft a name as any) actually came from Nottingham and were fronted by former Medium Medium funkster John Rees Lewis. With a career spanning six singles and four albums, Rees was highly productive and blended in Middle Eastern/North African textures to his work with some credible success. Here is the first of his C Cat work and as these posts develop you'll notice some very familiar recurring themes.
A1 Hypnotised
A2 My Tattoo
B1 Railway Magazine
B2 Let Me Sleep
B3 Untitled
B4 Dangling On A String
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Most awesome! Many thanks. :)
ReplyDeleteman i had forgotten how great this is...
ReplyDeletethank you, again. also for keeping the high resolution!
Oh yes - Medium Medium!!!
ReplyDeleteThe Glitterhouse - The Album and the song, especially THE SCREAM in it, one of my all time favourite tracks.
Enjoyed this - actually a lot of recent posts. Keep that C Cat Trance coming!
ReplyDeleteWould you please remind us what is the device you use for 24/96? Many thanks.
ReplyDeleteThanks for this. there haven't been many decent bands from Nottingham have there, glad to see this lot haven't been completely forgotten...? ;)
ReplyDeleteThank you for posting this, I love C Cat Trance and don't have this mini-album :)
ReplyDeleteHowever after looking at the spectrograms I have several questions that you could perhaps answer.
Spectro track A1: http://i.imgur.com/iGy11CS.png
Spectro track B3: http://i.imgur.com/2C9oDe2.png
All the tracks show a constant tone at 37-38 kHz as well as faint unwanted noise (the light blue on the spectros) at all frequencies. Can you tell us what kind of gear (cartridge, soundcard) you used to make this particular rip? That could help explain what's on the spectrograms.
Thanks again for all the rips, I've grabbed a lot of cool stuff from your blog over the years :)
Hi. I use a Debut Carbon turntable with a Ortofon 2M Red cartridge/stylus, no pre-amp fed into a Marantz PM6005 amp. This then connected to Creative Soundblaster 24-bit USB soundcard, and then captured to 96000hz WAV at 32bit (float).
DeleteI have seen this pimple on recent frequency analysis checks and believe it may come from a ground loop ...but it is always inaudible when I conduct playback checks using a separate system.
I have been playing around with 24/48000 files recently on which the pimple does not feature. Are you saying that you can hear this noise? Maybe its my old man ears?
If so I will reconnect everything and see what that does, or stick with 24/48 files.
Hi, thanks for all the info. Don't worry, that tone is inaudible. It's just that I downloaded a bunch of your recent posts and noticed that some were in 24/48, one was in 16/44 (the Minny Pops I think) so that prompted me to check the spectrograms. Otherwise I would have never noticed, the rip sounded fine. Unfortunatelly I'm not knowledgeable enough to know where it could come from. It could be worth asking at hydrogenaud.io, the frequency of that noise might be recognized by someone. I recently posted a question there and got lots of helpful information.
DeleteI'm surprised that you have so much audio information being captured at frequencies above 30 kHz, esp. since the 2M Red's frequency range extends to +- 22 kHz. By comparison my cartridge is limited to +- 25 kHz and on the spectrograms the audio information does indeed end at around 25-27 kHz, after that there's just nothing (for example: http://i.imgur.com/J0Xtalf.png)
Are you on Windows XP btw? I noticed the little thumbs files in your uploads and I remember WinXP used to have those to store image informations.
Sorry for all the questions. My setup is actually similar to yours, turntable-amp-soundcard (also a Creative SoundBlaster but it's internal).
Wouldn't a ground loop hum be audible? I did a quick google search and read that that kind of hum would be around 50-60 Hz. Yours is well beyond that at around 37.000 Hz. Electrical interference from one of your computer's component?
DeleteHi again. Regarding the 37-38 kHz tone, someone on another forum pointed to me that infrared receivers use a similar frequency, between 36-40 kHz (I googled it and that's true). I don't know how that would be picked up while recording, but could it be something like the remote from the amp (or another remote control in the same room)?
DeleteAnother thought: I don't know how it works on your system, but on mine (WinVista + internal SB soundcard), there are 2 places to configure the soundcard: through the Volume Mixer (to choose the bit depth and sampling rate for reading and recording); and through the Creative panel where you can enable/disable all the sound effects offered by the soundcard. I know that by default some of these sound effects are enabled. This could be another possible source of interference.
Anyway, hope that helps, at least a little bit...
Hello again, sorry to bother you once more but hopefully this will be the last time regarding this matter. I've been investigating why there's such a huge discrepancy between the spectrograms of your 24/96 rips and my 24/96 rips. I submitted that question to the hydrogenaud.io forum and just found out that Windows was playing tricks behind my back. You can read about it here (my Windows problem/resolution is at the end): https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,112000.0.html
DeleteSo thanks to you I not only get great music, but I was able to solve a problem that's been bugging me for over a year! Thank you again for your work and (indirect) help. I hope that you'll be able to find where that noise at 37 kHz comes from.
You can actually delete my previous comments, including this one, as they may actually induce people in error, esp. if they don't read the discussion at hydrogenaud.io
Thank you Dear! So this is a Soundblaster! I've been searching around about such recording devices these last weeks and I've seen pretty good reviews of the Soundblaster. I was almost sure you wrote once here that it was such but I wanted to check again. ;-) Many thanks for the details.
ReplyDeleteAnd many thanks for all the work you do! :)
Thanks for you kind words. The old 44.1 rips tend to be older rips, re-rips or blog donations. I have been experimenting much more with 24/48 rips as my old ears can't hear the difference. I usually just use that sample rate on 7" singles these days but may sneak in a few 12" singles from time to time.
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