so did anyone else get it besides me? It's great! Same songs and all but so much clearer and the instruments, especially the bass guitar are more audible and spaced evenly in the mix. One example, the final crashing chord that ends A Day In The Life is a little louder and more dramatic. There are also some background voices during the Sgt P reprise song ending "thank you! Good night!" that I've never heard before...must have been buried in the original mix
it is superior to stereo and was the way the Beatles intended it to be listened to
since the box set looks completely sick
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - ( New Window )
it is superior to stereo and was the way the Beatles intended it to be listened to
since the box set looks completely sick Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - ( New Window )
That's the beauty of this new mix. Giles Martin took all the elements people liked about the original mono mix (which is the version the band oversaw in post producion) and a modern stereo mix
I prefer Revolver and Abbey Road but would love to learn more about how Sgt Pepper was made.
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And don't get caught up in the nonsense about mono-stereo. There was plenty of stereo equipment around and it was very common to produce two versions of the same album. (If any of you read the NPR piece on "Why Remix Sgt Pepper . . .", ignore the comments about stereo being "fairly new"- that is complete bullshit. The Beatles and George Martin (Martin mixed both the mono and stereo versions of the album) were pioneers and experimenters in multi-track recording. They didn't do that so they could produce mono records.