Over the years, many of the records in my collection have given me an infinite amount of enjoyment. That will never change. If there is a way to get closer to those records, to hear details that I had never noticed before without adding anything; I'm all for it. (Paul had WHAT for lunch?)
The Beatles Revolver
Just read where Giles Martin is using AI-powered audio separation technology to remix Revolver. From what I read he can take the mono tracks and separate all the instruments and vocals on the 4 track tape the were recorded on and then I guess remix them in 24 track or whatever he wants. Is this good? I love The Beatles and no matter how much better it my sound it not the same. They had what they had in 1966. And George Martin did wonders with 4 tracks. Where does this reissuing of classic albums stop. Is Revolver remixed in multi tracks still Revolver?
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"It's about making money" is off-base. There's no sense in any Beatles production that money was or is the driving factor. Unlike so much in this world, it has always been about the music. It's one factor in the unique charm of The Beatles.The band and the production were a team then, and remain so now. |
@bdp24 - 🤣🤣🤣 I think we are in the small minority of Beatles fans who kinda wish they'd never even recorded that! And you are right - I remember that period very well, and those records you mentioned are indeed classics.... |
The Beatles started using a new SS mixing console from the Abbey Road. Here is about in from the book of Geoff Emerick "Here, There and Everywhere": "As it happened, the first week of the Abbey Road sessions were quite peaceful without John and Yoko’s presence, though a bit tentative because of equipment problems. The new mixing console had a lot more bells and whistles on it than the old one, and it gave me the opportunity to put into practice many of the ideas I’d had in mind for years, but it just didn’t sound the same, mainly because it utilized transistor circuitry instead of tubes. George Harrison had a lot of trouble coming to terms with the fact that there was less body in the guitar sound, and Ringo was rightfully concerned about the drum sound-he was playing as hard as ever, but you didn’t hear the same impact. He and I actually had a long conversation about that, which was quite unusual, but after a good deal of experimentation I came to the conclusion that we simply couldn’t match the old Beatles sound we had become used to; we simply had to accept that this was the best we could achieve with the new equipment. Personally, I preferred the punchier sound we had gotten out of the old tube console and four-track recorder; every- thing was sounding mellower now. It seemed like a steр backward, but there was nothing we could do-there was an album to record and we simply had to get on with it."
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