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In Reply to: RE: Best Price for Beatles Mono LP Box ? posted by Ross on August 25, 2014 at 09:07:37
...how analog these analog pressings are. I've read they were created start to finish in analog directly from the original analog tapes and I've read they're 24/192 digital files created from the original analog tapes.I also am trying to determine if all the LP's in the box set were originally recorded in mono and that's the reason for the upcoming release? We're some of these recorded in stereo and are being remixed to mono?
I just haven't figured it out definitively yet. Any help would be appreciated. "Rubber Soul" is at the top of my list out of these pressings, as the hard left/right on the stereo is horrible.
See ya. Dave
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Anyone know of a better price than what is offered by MD and SD ?
Thanks,
Ross
I was interested in what people found myself. Someone always seems to find some great deal.
The August 2014 issue of Hi-Fi World has a detailed article about the new Beatles in mono LPs.
Much more informational and free of the Fremer ego puffery.
Here is the process, per Steve Berkowitz:
1. The master tapes were played back into a PT session.
2. He used the PT files to go through each song and make notes on what EQ or other intervention was needed, measure by measure. He worked on this as time allowed over several years.
3. Those same master tapes were played to drive some EQ box, which fed the cutting lathe, with EQ manually applied in real time, using his notes. I didn't ask him what EQ he used - they could have resurrected one of the original "curve benders" or used something current to more precisely fix particular problems.
So the final product is analogue, start to finish, *and* there were digital files used for step 2.
WW
"A man need merely light the filaments of his receiving set and the world's greatest artists will perform for him." Alfred N. Goldsmith, RCA, 1922
Where did you read that there are digital files involved? Perhaps you're thinking of the mono CD set? Everything I've seen says emphatically that these new LPs are analog from start to finish.
I don't remember where I read that. But I'm clear what's going on now with a little help from my friends.
Thanks all. Now to decide on the box set or the individuals. Gotta run through a few of my old LP's to see which ones I actually don't mind the stereo and compare the song listings from the pressings I have to the UK releases in the box set.
F'rinstance...I like the EMI Parlophone stereo pressing of "A Hard Days Night".
Betcha I end up buying the Mono box set.
See ya. Dave
All but the final three albums were originally released in mono and stereo, so "Yellow Submarine," Let It Be" and "Abbey Road" won't be in the box.
Click the link to read about the sourcing and mastering of the new mono box set.
Rubber Soul is my favorite Beatles LP and does sound much better in mono.
-Wendell
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