[klaatumail] Re: Beatles remasters (no kk)
- From: "Bradley, David" <David_Bradley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <klaatumail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:51:36 -0400
> I may seem clueless here but which Beatles album
> was their first stereo recording? Gavin? Any one?
> I'm sure Gavin gave the answer moons ago but I forgot.
Only 4 songs haven't been released in stereo, but many weren't released
in stereo on CD.
Their very first album, Please Please Me, was released in 1963 in
stereo.
Some people prefer the mono mixes because they were the ones that the
band participated in and the ones that took a long time, but that's a
red herring. The mono mixes were simply the first ones done, so it took
time to figure out the best balance between tracks in the mix and the eq
settings, etc. One that mix was completed and the guys were happy with
it, then George Martin took all the balance/eq information and re-did
the mix in stereo, simply adding panning to the tracks. However, some
mixes, such as Sgt. Pepper, were so complex that things were left out of
the stereo mix because doing all the work of bringing things up or down
in the mix, in addition to maintaining stereo imaging, was too complex.
Dave Bradley
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