Re: Shadows Records - mono v stereo
Posted: 03 Nov 2020, 00:02
Don't forget the different mixes of Marvin, Welch, Farrar's Second Opinion LP in stereo and quadrophonic!
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Fenderman wrote:Talking of the mono releases do you feel they have more 'punch' that the stereo versions?
RayL wrote:Fenderman wrote:The now-notorious early Beatles albums which were issued in 'stereo' after George Martin had left to form Air Studios have the voices on one side and the instruments on the other. This was a misunderstanding because George had intended that these recordings were only to be used combined together for mono.
iefje wrote:RayL wrote:Fenderman wrote:The now-notorious early Beatles albums which were issued in 'stereo' after George Martin had left to form Air Studios have the voices on one side and the instruments on the other. This was a misunderstanding because George had intended that these recordings were only to be used combined together for mono.
George Martin formed Air Studios in 1965 and The Beatles' albums that appeared before that year ("Please Please Me" (1963), "With The Beatles" (1963), "A Hard Day's Night" (1964) and "Beatles For Sale" (1964)) all received a simultaneous stereo release next to the mono release. What I have always understood is that priority and the most time was always given to the mono mix of all tracks up to and including the album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and less time was spent mixing the tracks in stereo.
RayL wrote:This is George Martin speaking in about 1980 regarding the recording of the Please Please Me album in a transcription from the radio programme 'The Record Producers'.
"It was all done on two track, yes it was two track recording because we didn't have four track then but I used it as two track not stereo 'cause I kept the rhythm separate from the voices so I was able to compress the two together to make a harder sound."
On another recording that I've got (somewhere in the cellar) George explains that after he had left EMI they wanted to re-release Please Please Me and other early albums. They took the two-track tape from the archive. George wasn't there to guide them and in view of his (by then) reputation they assumed that, since this was the tape that George had made, this strange two-track must be the right one.
Ray