How is the quality of the MFSL pressings? I've been considering picking up a copy. I bought the 180g digital release and it is a noisy poor pressing ... should have sent it back :-(
How is the quality of the MFSL pressings? I've been considering picking up a copy. I bought the 180g digital release and it is a noisy poor pressing ... should have sent it back :-(
I agree. American pressings weren't very good. I have a German pressing that's fantastic. My American pressing is not so good.
it one wants a stereo remaster, one has to get it from the 44.1/24 mastering that was done released in 2009 and was in USB format (this is the Beatles Apple). There were other remasters before that but they were not good.
I think the best reissues are the Beatles MONO remasters that were released in 2009 also. You can also get this as a USB version.
Sorry no. There were new Mono recordings that were done from the original mono masters. Those are the ones I was talking about. Also here is more information for you.
"The Beatles in Mono was released to reflect the fact that most of the Beatles' catalogue was originally mixed and released in the monophonic format. Stereo recordings were a fairly new concept for pop music in the 1960s and did not become standard until late in that decade. This explains why the Beatles' initial album releases were mixed for mono. By the late sixties, however, stereo recording for pop music was becoming more popular and, thus, the new standard. Therefore, the last few Beatles albums were mixed and released only in stereo - "Yellow Submarine" "Abbey Road" and "Let It Be". Many feel that the mono mixes reflect the true intention of the band. For example, in the case of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, all the mono mixes were done together with the Beatles themselves, throughout the recording of the album, whereas the stereo mixes were done in only six days by Abbey Road personnel George Martin, Geoff Emerick and Richard Lush after the album had been finished, with none of the Beatles attending.[9] George Harrison commented:
“ 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."
So you are not fully informed....
Sorry no. There were new Mono recordings that were done from the original mono masters. Those are the ones I was talking about. Also here is more information for you.
"The Beatles in Mono was released to reflect the fact that most of the Beatles' catalogue was originally mixed and released in the monophonic format. Stereo recordings were a fairly new concept for pop music in the 1960s and did not become standard until late in that decade. This explains why the Beatles' initial album releases were mixed for mono. By the late sixties, however, stereo recording for pop music was becoming more popular and, thus, the new standard. Therefore, the last few Beatles albums were mixed and released only in stereo - "Yellow Submarine" "Abbey Road" and "Let It Be". Many feel that the mono mixes reflect the true intention of the band. For example, in the case of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, all the mono mixes were done together with the Beatles themselves, throughout the recording of the album, whereas the stereo mixes were done in only six days by Abbey Road personnel George Martin, Geoff Emerick and Richard Lush after the album had been finished, with none of the Beatles attending.[9] George Harrison commented:
“ 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."
So you are not fully informed....
Mine has frogs before "Sun King"
Doug