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The Beatles In Mono

The Beatles In Mono

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The Yellow Submarine album, included in the set, is the only original UK mono Beatles LP without a dedicated mono mix.

Some old 'stereo' recordings are just plain awful with instruments 'locked' to one channel or another.Until one day, a schoolmate invited me to his house and made me listen to his father's mono equipment. Those mono mixes were THE mixes the producer and the band worked on when the albums were originally recorded and released in the UK. Though, of course, taste is a matter of subjective preference, so there's no shame in enjoying the stereo mixes of earlier Beatles records. A significant amount of musicality just evaporates instantly when you load up a stereo version of an early Beatles track. In the last few years, I've been listening to a lot more pre-stereo recordings on LP and on 78 disks.

For a lot of music, especially older music originally engineered to be in mono, a stereo mix can sound strange and off-putting while the mono mix sounds delightfully musical. The set was released on compact disc on 9 September 2009, the same day the remastered stereo recordings and companion The Beatles (The Original Studio Recordings) were also released, along with The Beatles: Rock Band video game.An unknown quantity of unnumbered red boxes (sometimes reported to be between 300 and 500) were issued in the UK, while 1000 numbered black boxed sets were assembled and issued in the United States by the Dutch East India Trading Co. Of course, this was a huge oversimplification and I was wrong to think that the choice was so obvious, but it's an easy oversimplification to make in the modern day, especially if you're on the younger side of the spectrum. 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. Of course, the bigger version with the records is more desirable but this is pretty good alternative too :).

These are either "a revelation", "interesting", an "aberration" or "historical revisionism" depending on who you ask. There's a complicated answer there, but you can hear for yourself what a good stereo Beatles mix sounds like if you decide to listen to a later record, like Abbey Road.It's nice when you play a track, the music envelops you, and you can place the elements of the track on a virtual stage all by ear.

It's the most detailed account of the Beatles' lives up until they were about to release "Please Please Me". In his spare time, you can find Ruben cooking something delicious or, more likely, lying in bed consuming content. Sure, streaming services such as Tidal and Apple Music will let you listen to Dolby Atmos mixes of music, but generally when listening to music, stereo is what you're going to get.A mono version of the Yellow Submarine album was released in the UK, but it was simply a fold-down (two stereo channels combined into one channel) from the stereo mix, not a unique and separate mono mix. Also includes: A double-CD collection of all The Beatles non-album and EP tracks digitally remastered in mono including four mixes unique to this package.



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