The Beatles In Stereo Vinyl Box [Boxed Set] [VINYL]

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Another point of interest is that a mastering engineer’s client can have a significant effect on the final product. If Apple was not so set on retaining the original EQ, I think that the Abbey Road engineers would have produced an even better sounding suite of albums. But then, we wouldn’t be listening to The Beatles as we know them. For the audiophile, is that a bad thing? You decide. Another reason has been the demands of Apple: that amalgamation of the remaining Beatles plus the estates of the rest. Apple want any Beatles recordings to have a particular ‘sound’, a traditional presentation based upon the original recordings which, to some extent, constrained the mastering engineers at Abbey Road. To get the required sound required a considerable amount of EQ (Equalisation: boosting or reducing the levels of different frequencies in a signal), “To physically do this in real time whilst cutting from the original analogue masters would have been almost impossible to do,” said Magee. Rubber Soul was a -5/-3. The -3 was an early recut, but did little to improve the sound. The -5 side A sounded so much better than the original -2 or -3. The vocals and the instruments were at the same volume. However, since side 2 used the -3 metalwork, it wasn’t as pleasant. Vocals were overbearingly loud on side B, I definitely wish I’d have a later cutting. I do like the MFSL since it offers more treble to the guitar, like the band intended for Nowhere Man, but as good as it is, I think I’d still take the -5/-3. I would sneak side 2 from the MFSL though. Caro, Mark (30 September 2014). "Going Mono a Mano with the Beatles", Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 1 October 2014. Hernandez, Raoul (2 October 2009). "Review: The Beatles, The Beatles in Mono". The Austin Chronicle . Retrieved 19 November 2014.

Petridis, Alexis (4 September 2009). "The Beatles: The Beatles in Mono– CD Review". The Guardian. London. Overall, this is a great sounding box. Maybe the 1980 box will sound better, but it doesn’t have these great covers so I guess nobody wins. I highly recommend this box to anyone who does not have any stereo pressings. On 7 December 2009, The Beatles (The Original Studio Recordings) was also released as a limited edition of 30,000 apple-shaped USB flash drives. This event marks the first appearance for the Beatles catalogue in a high-resolution digital format being encoded in 44.1 kHz/ 24-bit FLAC format. CD-standard is 44.1kHz/16-bit. The 16 GB flash drive also includes 320 kbps MP3 copies of the albums, a specially designed Flash interface, and all the visual elements from the boxed set– the mini-documentary films, original UK album art, rare photos and expanded liner notes. [9] Beatle variations". Columbia.edu. Archived from the original on 21 February 2011 . Retrieved 12 March 2011.

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Baby You're A Rich Man - the true stereo version, previously found just on the German Magical Mystery Tour LP. The Beatles' Classic 1973 'Red' and 'Blue' Collections Remastered by Apple Corps Ltd. and EMI Music for Worldwide Release in October". emimusic.com. 10 August 2010. Archived from the original on 6 June 2011 . Retrieved 16 August 2010.

Lewis, Anthony (30 August 2009). "Meet (and be) the Beatles". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 3 November 2012 . Retrieved 28 August 2009. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. DeCurtis, Anthony (8 September 2009). "The Beatles The Beatles: Stereo Box Set Album Review". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 20 September 2012 . Retrieved 19 November 2014. Spanishcharts.com – The Beatles – The Beatles In Stereo". Hung Medien. Retrieved 20 September 2023.At that time [...] the console was about this big with four faders on it. And there was one speaker right in the middle [...] and that was it. When they invented stereo, I remember thinking 'Why? What do you want two speakers for?', because it ruined the sound from our point of view. You know, we had everything coming out of one speaker; now it had to come out of two speakers. It sounded like... very... naked. [11] The sixteen-disc collection contains the remastered stereo versions of every album in the Beatles catalogue. The first four albums ( Please Please Me, With the Beatles, A Hard Day's Night and Beatles for Sale) made their CD debut in stereo, though most songs from those albums have previously appeared on CD in stereo on various compilations. Both Help! and Rubber Soul use the remixes prepared by George Martin for the original 1987 CD releases (the original 1965 stereo mixes were released on The Beatles in Mono). Magical Mystery Tour is presented in the sequence and artwork of its original North American Capitol Records album release, as opposed to the UK six-song EP. The fast version was destroyed. It was a heavy record, but the stereo mix made it into a piece of ice-cream. [12] Limited edition [ edit ] Help! Was a -2/-3, and it was far superior over the original and the mfsl. You can actually hear the vocals on “The Night Before,” and the guitar on “I’ve Just Seen a Face” sounded so great. I could post a review about how great this set is, but I’d rather share how I got the box because I still think it’s the strangest and coolest story in my vinyl collecting journey.

Please Please Me had a -2/-2 cutting and was honestly not the best. It felt like a thin wall was covering the music. I put on an A2/B2 german pressing of Please Please Me and finally heard what others were claiming when they said this cutting was a revelation. Not a good start but it didnt sound like dung. Would even take the MFSL pressing over this though.Audiophiles will be happy to hear that no compression has been added to the vinyl masters while a decision to use DMM cutting process to enhance extra detail on the inner groove was rejected by Apple in favour of the warmer sound of lacquers. The only processing done was a series of precise and targeted removal of sibilance which, with CEDAR Retouch software, is almost surgical in its accuracy and doesn’t affect adjacent frequencies as older systems do and did. The Beatles: The Beatles In Stereo" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved 20 September 2023. Lewisohn, Mark: The Beatles Recording Sessions. The Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd., London 1988, ISBN 0-600-55798-7. P. 108.

at EMI, Trident, Olympic, Apple, De Lane Lea, Chappell and Regent Sound studios, London; Pathé Marconi Studio, Paris; EMI Studios, Bombay I wanted to also throw in a copy of the Mobile Fidelity pressings for this test, released in 1982, but this proved impossible to source in the time while purchasing one would have meant not eating for the next year or so, such is the high price of this set. This was why I used the official 1978 masters box set which does allow me to sample the official master tape-derived masters from a similar time period. In addition, if you want to sample vinyl masteres from this period, the ‘Blue Box’ masters can be yours for a much lower (although still relatively high) price.Knopper, Steve (12 November 2012). "Inside the Beatles' Vinyl Album Remasters | Music News". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 11 April 2014 . Retrieved 13 November 2012. Richardson, Mark (7 September 2009). "The Beatles: Stereo Box / In Mono". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 17 September 2012 . Retrieved 22 August 2011. The Beatles (commonly referred to as The White Album) was originally released in mono and stereo in the UK and several other countries, but in the United States, it was released only in stereo. However, the mono mixes of " Don't Pass Me By" and " Helter Skelter" had been previously issued in the US in 1980 on the Capitol Records Rarities compilation album.