I have had it up to here waiting for the Beatles catalogue to be remastered

It sounds pretty fine; it would be stupid to use no limiting at all, but they sound as if they've been very careful with it; I'm not against limiting per se, I'm against people using it clumsily and unsympathetically. Not using de-noise (apart from 5 mins out of 512) is a big plus, too. I love how the Love thing sounded, and I imagine this will be equally as good.

Yeah, Love sounds amazing.

cool

any word on new vinyl pressing???

it's getting pretty spendy to get really nice copies of the old originals...i can't imagine they wouldn't make bank on some nice 180g shit pressed at RTI

Sounds promising. I will be going for the stereo ones (actually have never owned the originals of the first four because I am a stereo freak) while I leave buying the mono set up to the reactionary anti-sound-quality lunatics only.

You mean like Brian Wilson?

Who you callin' reactionary? (xpost)

You mean like Brian Wilson?

Brian Wilson, for physical reasons, just cannot hear stereo properly. That being said, the stereo mix of "Pet Sounds" is for me the one and only version that matters.

It's nice.

FWIW, I have no opinion about mono being 'better' than stereo, it's more that I do not have an overriding position of "stereo is always better than mono".

The first Beatles Stereo albums had vocals on one side, instruments on the other. Which is less good than having it all mixed together for mono.

Presumably, this time round a decent Stereo mix will happen.

9-9-2009 has a good ring to it. so excited about this.

http://www.thebeatles.com/core/news/

HATS. AIR.

hmmm these look ... expensive. and nice!

will they also be updating the cover art as well? the abbey road cover has been so played out, same with sgt pepper

There's a thread idea.

attn ilx graphic designers or whatever

They're gonna fuck these up, I know it.

I wanna see the Polish movie poster versions.

I want vinyl. Also, what is the argument for buying the Mono version?

basically the recordings were mixed to be mono, and stereo versions were made artificially after the fact and sort of clumsily. i've heard that the mono mix of sgt pepper is the one that was really slaved over and the stereo mix which we are more familiar with were thrown together

any word on new vinyl pressing???

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I'm not shelling out for CDs. Vinyl, maybe. Way to totally blow it you fucking idiots.

fuck you, john lennon

I was at a record store once, and someone had just sold them a copy of Sgt. Peppers in mono. GLORIOUS MONO. And the employee simulated disgustingly real sex with it.

Ringo: "What do you feel when you turn out the light?"
record store guy: "I can't tell you, but it feels like a stand of spaghetti..."

strand, aaarrgghh...

I want vinyl. Also, what is the argument for buying the Mono version?

the mono mixes are different mixes, highlighting different thing; in the case of Pepper and the White Album, the mono mixes are radically different on some songs, with entirely different tracks that weren't used in the stereo; 'she's leaving home' isn't sped up, etc.

9-9-2009 has a good ring to it.

"One After 909"

har, nytimes is calling for the release of the 27-minute "Helter Skelter".

b/w 33 minute version of Heroes & Villains

BRING IT ON

how much you wanna bet the promotion of these reissues is accompanied by Sir Paul dropping tantalizing hints about all the unreleased shit the COULD be releasing, but aren't.

god I hope Ringo outlives Paul

they could ... oops

That's one of the cool things about being in a band...you get to decide what you want to release.

Presumably, this time round a decent Stereo mix will happen.

There's a limit as to how much you can actually do with two tracks. But I guess instruments in the middle and vocals in left or right would be better than the radical two track sound. This only goes for the first two albums anyway, as they used four tracks from "A Hard Day's Night" onwards, and that record sounds great in stereo the way it is.

basically the recordings were mixed to be mono, and stereo versions were made artificially after the fact and sort of clumsily. i've heard that the mono mix of sgt pepper is the one that was really slaved over and the stereo mix which we are more familiar with were thrown together

Other sources claim that "Sgt. Pepper" was actually the first album where they guys put as much into the stereo mix as the mono mix. For instance, the panning lead vocals on "A Day In The Life" were definitely not something George Martin or Geoff Emerick came up with alone on a quiet and boring day in the studio.

gah quicktime files?? is this 1993 year of CD-ROMs or something?

and as for vinyl, the new vinyl copies out there sound pretty good if you ask me but i've been listening to the dreaded CDs all my life so it all could be relative..

For instance, the panning lead vocals on "A Day In The Life" were definitely not something George Martin or Geoff Emerick came up with alone on a quiet and boring day in the studio.

Sure they could have. It was their job!

I'm not shelling out for CDs. Vinyl, maybe. Way to totally blow it you fucking idiots.

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seriously, they're going to lose so much money on this

From a buddy to me:

"A promising post from [name redacted], a very old-skool beatleg critic who knows his audiophile stuff and is pretty curmudgeonly about everything - he's been sent some samples of Pepper stereo tracks so he can share his opinion of them:

>>I'm listening to the samples again. Right now. As I'm typing this.

Look: this is the best (stereo) copy of the Pepper album I've ever heard (a portion of). It's the UHQR on steroids. Another shining example: Paul's "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" at the beginning of Lovely Rita is just... ethereal. It breathes. It's ALIVE. It's not like you're standing in the studio with him, but only because if you were his voice would be coming from straight in front of you and not transitioning across your ears like he were floating by on a cloud.

There are voices and sounds that were buried in the mix and inaudible during A Day In The Life that I can now hear clear as day.

This is like having hundreds of years of grunge cleaned off the ceiling of the Sistene Chapel.

Fuck it, guys, I'm drinking the Kool-Aid. <<

Wow. I guess I should just put aside a mason jar with a slot in the top...someone more mathematically inclined do that math on how much per day is needed to stash in order to get the whole catalogue on 9/9....

Yeah, I'm wondering how much those boxes will be going for. You know, get the catalogue in one fell swoop as opposed to drawing it out over 9 years like last time.

they'll probably be bargain-priced ... :P

Bargain priced at $21.99....times fourteen...divided by food and clothing

whoa, each CD is $21.99? They're just one disc right?

That was guesswork...remember they'll be fleshed out w/ "mini-documentaries"

I think that was a figure pulled out of thin air. Personally, I'm hoping for the big box stores to slap a huge loss-leader price on these for first week of release.