Buffalo Springfield - Baby Don't Scold Me {Rare Stereo Mix from Orig. US}
24bit/96kHz (Hi-Rez Audio for DVD Burning)
01. Baby Don't Scold Me
In stereo. Never officially available on CD or on vinyl since 1967.
Producers: Charles Greene & Brian Stone
Engineer: "Doc" Siegel
Recorded at Gold Star Studios, Hollywood, CA. Summer 1966
Hardware:
- Technics 1210mk2
- Jelco SA-750D Tonearm (w/ JAC 501 cable)
- Audio Technica AT33PTG MC
- Pro-Ject Tube Box SE-2
- Yamaha CA-1010
- RME ADI-2 A/D Interface
- VPI 16.5 (using VPI brushes and Audio Intelligent’s Enzymantic formula, Super Cleaner Formula)
- Nitty Gritty mini-pro 2 (using Ultra pure water)
Software:
- Audition 3.0 used for adjusting DC bias, editing, (incl. manual removal of clicks and pops), adding gain and making cue points.
- Click Repair 3.8.3 used with setting Cl: 15, Cr: 0
- CueListTool v1.7 & Mediaval CueSplitter used for generating the .cue's & .m3u's.
Transfer & Restoration by Prof. Stoned
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Prof. sez:
Here's another small oddity that just begs for a CD release. This stereo mix was omitted from the otherwise superb HDCD remaster
of the S/T Buffalo Springfield. This is part of a short "Prof. Stoned cleans house" series, meaning these little projects have
been on my HD for a while but were abandoned or forgotten about at some point. Until now...!
The original stereo vinyl version of this album was withdrawn five months after its initial release, to be replaced by a version
that omitted 'Scold' but added the hitsingle For What It's Worth. The Lp only started selling outside of LA after the single hit
the charts, and this was in a time when mono was still the reigning format, so this LP is pretty hard to find in clean condition.
Since I can already feel the question coming ("Why not rip the whole album?"), I'll answer here: because the afforementioned CD
sounds far superior. It was meticulously remastered by Neil Young's Archives crew from the true original master tapes. Although
decent sounding, this LP is one of those typical 60's mid-range heavy loud cut's and even in unworn top condition (like the copy
I have), it will sound mildly distorted in places because it was not made with critical listeners in mind. It took me a while to
get the result here as clean as it is now.
Enjoy!
