With photos, handwritten lyrics, and poster art, the book is genuinely good reading with essays composed in appropriately personal, informative, or analytical voices to cover Beautifully designed and lushly illustrated These books are usually little more than fancily packaged liner notes intended toīoost the price of a set such as this. The most valuable goody of all is a 145-page hardbound book. In the original stereo mix of “A Day in the Life”, is now nudged to the right). Move to the middle too (though, oddly, Paul’s bass, which was centered Right channel are now centered throughout the disc. Lead vocals once shunted off to the left or More importantly, the frailty of that original stereo mix is nowīolstered with better balance. Trip out to the extra phasing on John’s voice in “Lucy in the Sky withĭiamonds”, the speedier tempo of “She’s Leaving Home”, and the varied speechĮffects in “Within You, Without You” and “Sgt. So feel free to pop on those headphones and Martin uses the mono mix as a reference,Īnd indeed, many of those neat touches only present in the original mono mixĪre now part of the stereo one too. Which focuses a lot of its attention on Giles “Son-of-George” Martin’s new Six-disc 50 th Anniversary Super Deluxe edition of Sgt. Psychedelic opus ended up more psychedelic than the stereo mix.Ĭorrecting this issue is clearly the main concern of the new Spectrum of trippy music through headphones, the mono mix of The Beatles’ Speed altered in mono might not receive the same colorations in stereo.Ĭonsequently, and perhaps ironically since stereo is made for hearing the full With effects in the mono mix might lack them in stereo. Those stereo mixes tended to be poorly balanced and lacked some of theĬarefully considered signature touches of the mono mixes. Who usually baled on George Martin’s hastily performed stereo mixing sessions. As the now well-known story goes, The Beatles were mono purists Original stereo mix which committed the same crimes as so many of The Beatles’ Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,Ĭould use some gussying up, largely because of the obvious flaws of its Even The Beatles’ most influential and definitive album, Sgt. That does not mean that it’s perfect or that there is no
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