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New news on The Beatles

soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
edited April 2009 in Other Music
Fucking FINALLY!

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/i ... er-9-2009/

The Beatles catalogue is finally getting a remastered release. It's about time. The CD's I have sound really bad, so I'm pretty pumped for this! Rubber Soul, Revolver, and Sgt Pepper's with sound quality you can hear on your stereo? Fuck yes!
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  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    Yeah....need to get copies of all three albums that you listed....and it's time to replace that cassette copy of "Magical Mystery Tour." :evil:
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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    A remaster of Revolver would be fascinating to me. I have a mint condition, original mono Parlophone vinyl copy of the album, and it's still my favourite of the versions I have (including a vinyl edition from the Original Master Recordings series a few years back). Could the remaster top that?
  • analogueaddict72analogueaddict72 Posts: 307
    No it's on CD always going to sound inferior, what worries me about this is what tinkering is going to go on.

    People have been used to these albums for decades, I promise you some Beatles die hards will have issues with these remasters! guaranteed.

    Hopefully they will leave the albums track running alone, nothing worse than buying a classic album for someone to tack tracks on the end for supposed value, Imagine Darkside or Revolver contining after Eclipse or Tomorrow never knows. sacrilege.
  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    analogueaddict72 wrote:
    No it's on CD always going to sound inferior, what worries me about this is what tinkering is going to go on.

    People have been used to these albums for decades, I promise you some Beatles die hards will have issues with these remasters! guaranteed.

    Hopefully they will leave the albums track running alone, nothing worse than buying a classic album for someone to tack tracks on the end for supposed value, Imagine Darkside or Revolver contining after Eclipse or Tomorrow never knows. sacrilege.

    They did that with the Who remasters... it annoyed me too. Of course, they also did it with the Ten redux.

    According to the article, the albums are going to be the same as they always were. No added tracks, just the original UK tracklistings. All the odds and sods are going on the Past Masters albums like they have since the first CD releases. Looks promising!

    That said, I have no doubt people will whine about the sound. But it can't be worse than the original CD transfers.
  • InHiding19InHiding19 Posts: 2,385
    I have no problem with B sides, but just put them on a separate disc.
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  • InHiding19InHiding19 Posts: 2,385
    Will there be a vinyl release too?
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  • jmkjmk Posts: 425
    Oxxys wrote:
    Will there be a vinyl release too?

    No vinyl news this time. Possibly sometimes in the future? I do think so. Maybe in a few years because they have been working on these for a few years and the work done for vinyls is a bit different.
    Stockholm - 07/07/2012
  • Evacuation RulesEvacuation Rules Posts: 2,162
    I'm pretty picky when it comes to the Beatles (and remasters) and I think this new batch looks very promising. The biggest problem with EMI/Abbey Road is that they love to smother everything in noise reduction. But according to the press release, they only used noise reduction on 5 minutes of music total. (IMO that's 5 minutes too many, but still...) They probably felt the need to mention this because of the harsh criticism they've recieved for their poor digital product of the past 20 years. They also claimed there will be no compression used, but some limiting to bring up the volume on the stereo versions (which ususally doesn't affect the sound so that's okay with me.) Those are the two major bullets when it comes to ruining the sound of a remaster, and it looks as though they've been dodged. They've opted to use the 1987 remixes of Help and Rubber Soul for the regular stereo versions, and the original mixes will be included in the mono box. This is somewhat irritating, but not a dilemma. All in all, I'm looking forward to it. The old CD's were very poorly transferred and mastered and they shouldn't be that hard to top at all.
  • jmkjmk Posts: 425
    Evacuation Rules wrote:
    I'm pretty picky when it comes to the Beatles (and remasters) and I think this new batch looks very promising. The biggest problem with EMI/Abbey Road is that they love to smother everything in noise reduction. But according to the press release, they only used noise reduction on 5 minutes of music total. (IMO that's 5 minutes too many, but still...) They probably felt the need to mention this because of the harsh criticism they've recieved for their poor digital product of the past 20 years. They also claimed there will be no compression used, but some limiting to bring up the volume on the stereo versions (which ususally doesn't affect the sound so that's okay with me.) Those are the two major bullets when it comes to ruining the sound of a remaster, and it looks as though they've been dodged. They've opted to use the 1987 remixes of Help and Rubber Soul for the regular stereo versions, and the original mixes will be included in the mono box. This is somewhat irritating, but not a dilemma. All in all, I'm looking forward to it. The old CD's were very poorly transferred and mastered and they shouldn't be that hard to top at all.

    It's strange that they'll use the same 1987 remixes of Help and Rubber Soul for these remasters. I really think Rubber Soul and Help could also benefit of new mixes what comes to how the instruments are divided between the left and right channel. I think it's a bit strange to put the vocals in one channel and one guitar per channel etc. I believe I heard some discussion that they have modernized the stereo mixes so that the vocals are not only in the left channel and Ringos drums in the right to give an example.
    Stockholm - 07/07/2012
  • Evacuation RulesEvacuation Rules Posts: 2,162
    jmk wrote:
    I think it's a bit strange to put the vocals in one channel and one guitar per channel etc.

    There's a mono mix too which elimates those problems. And that kind of stereo wasn't strange in 1963. That's how it sounded out of neccessity. The first two Beatles albums were recorded on two tracks. Today you can record with an infinite number of tracks. The options available when mixing a two-track tape for stereo are obviously limited. The Beatles engineers basically left the two-track as-is when mixing for stereo, only adding some compression and chamber reverb. You could move the instruments to the center but then the vocals will still only be on one side.
    jmk wrote:
    I believe I heard some discussion that they have modernized the stereo mixes so that the vocals are not only in the left channel and Ringos drums in the right to give an example.

    I don't think so. They're supposed to be using the original mixes. I'm not against remixes, but Apple doesn't seem to be interested in that at this point. Almost all of the Beatles stuff can be mixed in 5.1. Maybe that will be the next big thing to push. Stereo and 5.1 remixes on DVD-A.
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