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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Scott Dorsey wrote:
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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Ok, the multitracks are interesting.
The early Beatles "stereo" were made before consoles
Had pan pots so they are not really mixes as Scott mentioned.
I happen to like that style but it is a matter of opinion.
Even if pan pots had existed, they'd still not have been made in
'stereo'. Not enough multi-track tracks.
It only takes two to make stereo, you just have to use them right.
Are you saying you'd have made a better job of the early Beatles stuff
using the equipment they had? ;-)
I'm saying that if the label had wanted stereo mixes, they'd have made
stereo mixes. But nobody cared about stereo mixes, so they didn't make
them and didn't track with them in mind.
And, to my mind, that's perfectly fine because the mono mixes sound great.
The fact that, a decade later, stereo became very important was not something
anyone at any of the labels was expecting. The fact that, a decade later,
there was still a demand for ten-year-old Beatles records wasn't something
anyone at EMI was expecting either. They weren't tracked and mixed with the
future in mind, because they were pop music. And that's fine too, because
the mono mixes sounded great.
--scott
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