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| From | "Robert Sutliff" <rsutliff@columbus.rr.com> |
| Subject | Re: Capitol Albums |
| Date | Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:35:57 -0400 |
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I suspect that redoing the Beatles catalog is already a work in progress. As
many of you know, up until The White Album, they recorded on 4 track tape
machines. When they filled up the 4 tracks a reduction mixdown to another 4
track deck was done so more tracks could be added. The technology now exists
to lock up the original 4 tracks with the additional tracks, thus enabling a
much cleaner mix (less inherent tape noise) and also bad stereo imaging
decisions could be corrected. The recent Yellow Submarine disc used this
process. Still, I dig (mostly) the original mixes. And really, it's the
songs that count. And they are among the best pop songs ever.
I still play my Parlophone lps and they sound great (especially the mono
ones). I can't imagine wanting to listen to a reissue of the wretched US
versions.
Bobby Sutliff
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> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 09:36:00 +0100
> From: bob_hutton@standardlife.com
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Re: Capitol Albums
> Message-ID:
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> Thanks to Chris Coyle for all the interesting info. on the Beatles US
> mixes. Fascinating. I'll prob. end up buying this set.
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> However, what the Beatles catalogue really needs is for someone to dive in
> and create fresh modern stereo mixes of as much of their material as
> possible (like the work done on Yellow Submarine songtrack) and ALSO to
> remaster them using up to date technology. I have all the CD versions of
> their albums and I find the sound on some of them incredibly thin and
weedy
> (Please Please Me, Beatles for Sale, Revolver).
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> I had the Beach Boys 2-fers when they came out back around 1990, and
> happened to pick up (cheaply) the remastered new (circa 2000) version of
> Today/Summer Days. The newer one blows the earlier CD away TOTALLY in
> respect of audio quality. The Beatles back catalogue deserves to be kept
> up to date sonically in the same way.
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> So, Apple, Parlophone, whatever ..... how about new versions of all the
> Beatles albums, each containing remastered modern "true" stereo mixes PLUS
> the original mono mixes (over which George Martin took so much care). Now
> that would be something worth waiting for.
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> Bob
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