Beatles Remasters Officially Coming 09-09-09
04-16-09, 10:17 AM
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Re: Beatles Remasters Officially Coming 09-09-09
Finally, as is common with today's music, overall limiting - to increase the volume level of the CD - has been used, but on the stereo versions only. However, it was unanimously agreed that because of the importance of The Beatles' music, limiting would be used moderately, so as to retain the original dynamics of the recordings.
04-16-09, 12:17 PM
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Re: Beatles Remasters Officially Coming 09-09-09
He officially announced that LOVE would be his last work as a producer. He's retired.
04-17-09, 04:31 AM
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Re: Beatles Remasters Officially Coming 09-09-09
Thats my brithday too. Love the older stuff. Didnt really like much after about 1966. Are there any pre order prices around anywhere yet?
04-17-09, 10:34 AM
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04-17-09, 04:52 PM
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04-17-09, 06:16 PM
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I think I'd prefer "moderate" sound limiting over missing out on the stereo effects that were so important to the recordings in the psychedelic phase.
04-17-09, 09:14 PM
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Looks like i'll buy the Mono box set, and add Abby Road and Let it Be in Stereo since the stereo mixes are being sold seperatly
04-20-09, 03:47 PM
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Re: Beatles Remasters Officially Coming 09-09-09
From the article:
Does this mean that the Help! and Rubber Soul stereo releases (not the aforementioned bonus discs included with the mono discs) will still not contain the original stereo mixes? I'm starting to think so, because why else would they be packaged together with the mono versions?
As an added bonus, the mono "Help!" and "Rubber Soul" discs also include the original 1965 stereo mixes, which have not been previously released on CD.
04-20-09, 04:21 PM
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Re: Beatles Remasters Officially Coming 09-09-09
From the article:
Does this mean that the Help! and Rubber Soul stereo releases (not the aforementioned bonus discs included with the mono discs) will still not contain the original stereo mixes? I'm starting to think so, because why else would they be packaged together with the mono versions?
Does this mean that the Help! and Rubber Soul stereo releases (not the aforementioned bonus discs included with the mono discs) will still not contain the original stereo mixes? I'm starting to think so, because why else would they be packaged together with the mono versions?
BTW, I really wish they would have just made a DVD or two with the documentary footage instead of the Quicktime files on the CDs.
04-20-09, 06:28 PM
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04-21-09, 11:16 AM
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Re: Beatles Remasters Officially Coming 09-09-09
From what I read in the article, the mono mixes are also being remastered. Does that mean that there could be clipping in the mono CDs?
04-21-09, 02:07 PM
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Re: Beatles Remasters Officially Coming 09-09-09
Are there any clipping issues in the "Love" compilation? I heard nothing but good things about it.
Plus, I'm not to worried about these remasters because it is produced by the same guys who did "#1's" and "Let It Be..Naked" which sound amazing to me.
Plus, I'm not to worried about these remasters because it is produced by the same guys who did "#1's" and "Let It Be..Naked" which sound amazing to me.
04-21-09, 06:31 PM
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Re: Beatles Remasters Officially Coming 09-09-09
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009...tered-reissued
Hoo-fucking-ray for louder CDs! 
The Beatles' back catalogue set for remastered re-release
All 12 Beatles studio albums will be reissued on CD on 9 September to coincide with their first video game
* Sean Michaels
* guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 8 April 2009 10.14 BST
The Beatles at Abbey Road studios in 1967
The Beatles remastered ... the Fab Four's entire run will receive a digital makeover. Photograph: David Magnus/Rex Features
The Beatles, Apple Corps and EMI Music have finally, at long last, agreed to rake in several million pounds. After more than two decades of waiting, all of the band's original studio albums are to be re-released in digitally remastered stereo versions.
From Please Please Me to Abbey Road, the Fab Four's entire run will be reissued on CD on 9 September, the same day that the mop-tops' first video game, The Beatles: Rock Band, will be released.
According to a statement, engineers at EMI's Abbey Road studios spent four years on the remasters, "utilising state-of-the-art recording technology alongside vintage studio equipment [and] carefully maintaining the authenticity and integrity of the original analogue recordings". The recordings were last overhauled in 1987.
In addition to the Beatles' 12 "canonical" albums, this flurry of releases includes a remastered version of Magical Mystery Tour, and the Past Masters I and II compilations issued in a single set. This is also the first time that the Beatles' first four albums will be released in stereo on CD.
"You really can tell the difference," said Beatles expert Kevin Howlett, who wrote the new liner notes. "It's an extraordinary thing to sit there and hear LPs that you know so well and hear little nuances that you hadn't noticed before."
The albums will be available individually or as a box set. For traditionalists, a box set of mono recordings will also be available – with each disc styled as a vinyl LP.
Each of the reissued albums will include the original UK album art, original and new liner notes, and a booklet of photos that are, at least until every household in Britain buys the new discs, "rare". A short documentary will also be squeezed on to every CD, telling the story of each album's genesis.
Never ones to overlook an opportunity, EMI have also compiled the mini-documentaries on to a single DVD.
Although the Beatles' re-remasters have been rumoured for years, most Fab Four fanatics expected them to be part of the Beatles' entry into online music sales. The Beatles are one of the last major groups to have spurned iTunes Music Store, and their music cannot be legally purchased in MP3 or any other downloadable form.
Negotiations between the Beatles, their labels, publishers and online distributors appear to have stalled, and these new reissues, among the year's most important releases, will not be available for purchase in downloadable form.
On the bright side, Howlett remarked, "they sound louder than previous CD reissues." Well worth the wait.
All 12 Beatles studio albums will be reissued on CD on 9 September to coincide with their first video game
* Sean Michaels
* guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 8 April 2009 10.14 BST
The Beatles at Abbey Road studios in 1967
The Beatles remastered ... the Fab Four's entire run will receive a digital makeover. Photograph: David Magnus/Rex Features
The Beatles, Apple Corps and EMI Music have finally, at long last, agreed to rake in several million pounds. After more than two decades of waiting, all of the band's original studio albums are to be re-released in digitally remastered stereo versions.
From Please Please Me to Abbey Road, the Fab Four's entire run will be reissued on CD on 9 September, the same day that the mop-tops' first video game, The Beatles: Rock Band, will be released.
According to a statement, engineers at EMI's Abbey Road studios spent four years on the remasters, "utilising state-of-the-art recording technology alongside vintage studio equipment [and] carefully maintaining the authenticity and integrity of the original analogue recordings". The recordings were last overhauled in 1987.
In addition to the Beatles' 12 "canonical" albums, this flurry of releases includes a remastered version of Magical Mystery Tour, and the Past Masters I and II compilations issued in a single set. This is also the first time that the Beatles' first four albums will be released in stereo on CD.
"You really can tell the difference," said Beatles expert Kevin Howlett, who wrote the new liner notes. "It's an extraordinary thing to sit there and hear LPs that you know so well and hear little nuances that you hadn't noticed before."
The albums will be available individually or as a box set. For traditionalists, a box set of mono recordings will also be available – with each disc styled as a vinyl LP.
Each of the reissued albums will include the original UK album art, original and new liner notes, and a booklet of photos that are, at least until every household in Britain buys the new discs, "rare". A short documentary will also be squeezed on to every CD, telling the story of each album's genesis.
Never ones to overlook an opportunity, EMI have also compiled the mini-documentaries on to a single DVD.
Although the Beatles' re-remasters have been rumoured for years, most Fab Four fanatics expected them to be part of the Beatles' entry into online music sales. The Beatles are one of the last major groups to have spurned iTunes Music Store, and their music cannot be legally purchased in MP3 or any other downloadable form.
Negotiations between the Beatles, their labels, publishers and online distributors appear to have stalled, and these new reissues, among the year's most important releases, will not be available for purchase in downloadable form.
On the bright side, Howlett remarked, "they sound louder than previous CD reissues." Well worth the wait.
04-21-09, 07:29 PM
#95
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Re: Beatles Remasters Officially Coming 09-09-09
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
Also, compressing the dynamics could make them perceived to be better on portable devices with earbuds, especially in public environments with background noise. It's catering to the lowest common denominator, basically.
04-22-09, 12:21 PM
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04-22-09, 07:25 PM
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Re: Beatles Remasters Officially Coming 09-09-09
The Capitol Box Sets sound marvelous and they were remastered in the exact same way. People getting up in arms about this before they hear the discs are worrying over nothing.
04-22-09, 07:43 PM
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Re: Beatles Remasters Officially Coming 09-09-09
Yes, we need to wait and see. CDs in the 80s were much lower in average volume compared to later discs. Around the early to mid 90s, they were louder, but better than the 80s masters IMHO. It's the end of the 90s to now that things went to hell. (This is all generally speaking, from what I've heard.) If these remasters are along the lines of the mid 90s discs ("1993" in Nick Danger's pic), they should be fine.
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04-23-09, 02:50 AM
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Re: Beatles Remasters Officially Coming 09-09-09
CDs in the 80s were much lower in average volume compared to later discs
does anyone have the artwork for the box sets?
I hope this is not naive but I hope the stereo box sets costs $79 or less since they are older CDs and that would be a fair price especially in this economy.
$149 or something like that would be ridiculous
