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| From | "Perry R. Stearns" <pstearns3@wi.rr.com> |
| Subject | Beatles Stereo Re-masters Question |
| Date | Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:07:33 -0500 |
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Would someone who has purchased the first four Beatles Re-mastered stereo
CD's please comment on whether or not the vocals have been centered in the
stereo panorama? I'm aware that this won't be possible for some songs but
others have already been "fixed" and released by clever amateurs so I'm
wondering if the professionals took the same approach. I've done some
searching for answers to these questions but can't find a direct answer.
Keeping in mind that the Mobile Fidelity (and other) bootleg CD's offered
the same faux stereo versions as the stereo LP's, I'd like to know whether
these new re-mastered CD's improved the stereo vocal placement like the Dr.
Ebbetts' releases did - only in better quality. Does anyone out there know
what I'm asking about?
Thanks so much,
Perry
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Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:26:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Myers <mmyers1446@yahoo.com>
To: audities@smoe.org
Subject: Re: Remix vs Remaster Was: Beatles Remasters
Message-ID: <388296.70348.qm@web65607.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>
Mark;
40 years ago, they used analog tapes to create the incredible and warm
sounds that vinyl lovers want... so when the records came out back then,
things sounded great...
In 1987, when it was decided to release the Beatles catalog on CD, the
PROCESS of analog-to-digital transfer was not anywhere as mature as it it
today... hence, many folks were disappointed at the sonic quality of the
1987 CDs... I just played my 1987 Abbey Road side by side with the new one
I got last week and there is a world of difference because....
The new analog to digital transfer that occurred in the last 4 years made
use of huge advances in technology... they went back to the old master tapes
and did a whole new digital transfer BEFORE they started to clean them up...
the sampling rates are better, and I read a comment by one engineer who said
that even if they performed no other "wizardry" (such as removing hiss,
pops, blah blah blah), the quality of the new digital masters would have
been incredible if released "as-is" (in other words, if no "cleaning up" had
been done)... I don't want to get in semantics here, but if they had ONLY
done a new analog tape-to-digital transfer, I guess that activity IN ITSELF
might qualify as per definition as remastering, but of course what occurred
was that they cleaned up the sound as well as per he "rules" they had to
follow (pop removal ok, coughing during a take - no touch lol)
Mike
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