Robinson, John (October 2014). "The Beatles – The Beatles in Mono". Uncut . Retrieved 19 November 2014. Sgt. Pepper was a -3/-4 and sounded really good. I still prefer the -4/-5 1980 pressing, but this one did its job. The -1/-1 original isn’t as good as its made out to be, its congested and sounds like it has been run through sandpaper. The MFSL pressing was also ruined by the bass boost. So the winner still goes to the -4/-5, but its not in the comparison list so I’ll give it to the -3/-4. The albums Yellow Submarine, Abbey Road and Let It Be are not included in this set, as no true mono mixes of these albums were issued. The same holds true for the songs " The Ballad of John and Yoko", " Old Brown Shoe" and the single mix of " Let It Be", which were also omitted. 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. Abbey Road and Let It Be were issued in the UK in mono on reel-to-reel tape and on LP in Brazil and other countries but, again, only as fold-downs from the respective stereo versions. The Beatles In Mono(Box Set, Compilation, Limited Edition, Remastered, Unofficial Release, CD, Album, Reissue, Unofficial Release, Mono, CD, Album, Reissue, Unofficial Release, Mono, CD, Album, Reissue, Unofficial Release, Mono, CD, Album, Reissue, Unofficial Release, Mono, CD, Album, Reissue, Unofficial Release, Stereo, Mono, CD, Album, Reissue, Unofficial Release, Stereo, Mono, CD, Album, Reissue, Unofficial Release, Mono, CD, Album, Reissue, Unofficial Release, Mono, CD, Album, Reissue, Unofficial Release, Mono, 2×CD, Album, Reissue, Unofficial Release, Mono, 2×CD, Compilation, Unofficial Release) The Beatles are finally emerging onto streaming services but, if you want quality stereo Beatles recordings, vinyl is surely your option. But which pressing is best? The latest Abbey Road suite of pressings or older, more collectable, releases? Paul Rigby talks to Abbey Road about the latest pressings and undertakes detailed A-B comparisons with older releases to get to the sonic truth

Across The Universe - (Version 2) produced by Phil Spector. All My Loving - begins with five taps on Ringo's "hi-hat" cymbal. Very interesting. I have three Abbey Road LPs in my collection: the original UK pressing from 1969, the Capitol ‘orange label’ pressing, and the 2012 remastered pressing sourced from the 24 bit/44.1 kHz. To my ears, the original pressing sounds superior to any other pressing I’ve ever heard. The Capitol ‘orange label’ sounds quite good, except for the way too boomy bass. The Beatles was a -1/-3/-1/-2 pressing. I love this album, the -1/-1/-1/-1 original is a fantastic pressing. Good thing side 1 and 3 carried the -1 originals, because they sounded the best. Side 2 and 4 did need a recut, so this box pressing came in clutch and was the best one. The MFSL was just bloated, just not as good as the UK pressing was. A Hard Day’s Night was a -2/-3 cutting. Side 1 was basically the -1 but with a 2 stamped over it. I am not a fan of the -1/-1 original of A Hard Day’s Night, so side 1 was too hot and was sibilant heavy. Side 2 was a complete 180. It sounded FANTASTIC! Smooth, clear and uncongested. Would take this over the original and the MFSL.Dutchcharts.nl – The Beatles – The Beatles In Mono" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 29 September 2023. Lewisohn, Mark: The Beatles Recording Sessions. The Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd., London 1988, ISBN 0-600-55798-7. P. 108.

The Beatles In Mono(Box Set, Compilation, Limited Edition, Remastered, CD, Album, Reissue, Mono, CD, Album, Reissue, Mono, CD, Album, Reissue, Mono, CD, Album, Reissue, Mono, CD, Album, Reissue, Stereo, Mono, CD, Album, Reissue, Stereo, Mono, CD, Album, Reissue, Mono, CD, Album, Reissue, Mono, CD, Compilation, Reissue, Mono, 2×CD, Album, Reissue, Mono, 2×CD, Compilation, Reissue, Mono) Yellow Submarine will never sound good on vinyl, but here it is. My copy was a -3/-3, and did little to improve the shitty stereo mixes presented here. Nothing is a winner, but I’d say the original -1/-1 sounded worse and the MFSL made Hey Bulldog even more listenable so I guess I’ll give it to the MFSL. Another reason has been the demands of Apple: that amalgamation of the remaining Beatles plus the estates of the rest. Apple want any Beatles recordings to have a particular ‘sound’, a traditional presentation based upon the original recordings which, to some extent, constrained the mastering engineers at Abbey Road. To get the required sound required a considerable amount of EQ (Equalisation: boosting or reducing the levels of different frequencies in a signal), “To physically do this in real time whilst cutting from the original analogue masters would have been almost impossible to do,” said Magee. Rubber Soul was a -5/-3. The -3 was an early recut, but did little to improve the sound. The -5 side A sounded so much better than the original -2 or -3. The vocals and the instruments were at the same volume. However, since side 2 used the -3 metalwork, it wasn’t as pleasant. Vocals were overbearingly loud on side B, I definitely wish I’d have a later cutting. I do like the MFSL since it offers more treble to the guitar, like the band intended for Nowhere Man, but as good as it is, I think I’d still take the -5/-3. I would sneak side 2 from the MFSL though. Find sources: "The Beatles in Mono"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( March 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Let it Be was a -3U/-4, and sounded decent. It’s hard to beat the original -2U/-2U, because its a masterpiece. You just need to be precise with this fantastic album. The MFSL messed it up but did bring out the drums very well. I’ll take the original though. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. September 1962–4 January 1970 at EMI, Trident, Olympic, Apple, Chappell, De Lane Lea and Regent Sound studios, London; Pathé Marconi Studio, Paris; HMV Studios, Bombay Oricon Weekly Album Charts for the third week of September 2009". Oricon (in Japanese) . Retrieved 1 October 2009.

It so happened that the complex EQ applications had already been done for the CD version, “To use the 192kHz sources now would have entailed recreating the EQ source that we did at 24bit/44.1kHz, which wasn’t viable.” I’ve rammed through so many stereo pressings of the Beatles catalogue. The mono albums are easy-just buy the CD and Vinyl mono boxes from the past decade. The stereo albums on the other hand is so complicated. There’s the originals, hundreds of recuttings, MFSL pressings, DMM pressings, digital remasters and digital transfers. I can’t really explore the CDs, but I can at least talk about the vinyl cuttings. I hate the long matrix cuts from the 80’s pressings. I heard Sgt. Pepper from the box and was disgusted as to how bad it sounded. So, I decided to try to avoid an 80s box set. It took me so unbelievably long to find this 1978 box at a decent price, but I finally found one. To compare, I have original cuttings and an MFSL box. Heres my review:Overall, this is a great sounding box. Maybe the 1980 box will sound better, but it doesn’t have these great covers so I guess nobody wins. I highly recommend this box to anyone who does not have any stereo pressings. The Beatles(Box Set, Compilation, 13×CD, Album, Remastered, Stereo, Enhanced, Digisleeve, CD, Album, Remastered, Stereo, Digisleeve, 2×CD, Compilation, Remastered, Stereo, Digisleeve, DVD, NTSC, Digisleeve) We couldn’t really,” said Magee. “We have all the cutting notes left by Harry Moss (the original cutting engineer for The Beatles’ recording output) but we don’t have the same equipment. We could kind of recreate the analogue chain and kind of recreate what Harry Moss did to get that sound but it wouldn’t be the same.” John Lennon did not like the stereo mix of his song " Revolution" on the 1967-1970 compilation album. Lennon stated during a 1974 interview: P.S.I Love You should have been * listed as mono it's not and of course the forever mono mystery of She Loves You,

The boxed set was released on 180-gram heavyweight vinyl on 8 September 2014, with each disc mastered directly from analog tape sources, rather than the digital remasters used for the CD release. [9] Intention [ edit ]Audiophiles will be happy to hear that no compression has been added to the vinyl masters while a decision to use DMM cutting process to enhance extra detail on the inner groove was rejected by Apple in favour of the warmer sound of lacquers. The only processing done was a series of precise and targeted removal of sibilance which, with CEDAR Retouch software, is almost surgical in its accuracy and doesn’t affect adjacent frequencies as older systems do and did. Ultratop.be – The Beatles – The Beatles In Mono" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 29 September 2023. Caro, Mark (30 September 2014). "Going Mono a Mano with the Beatles", Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 1 October 2014.