Not that I didn't expect the 'slap-back' from my initial post, but ...
Edvaard wrote on Mon, 28 September 2009 04:02
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I somehow doubt that either 'Revolver' or 'Sgt. Pepper' were recorded and mixed with the transistor radio or mono table-top record player in mind.
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They most certainly were. In spades. The Beatles prime demographic in 1966-1967 was under 25 years old. Most of them did not have high fidelity playback devices.
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I was in that crowd, whereupon I spoke of first-hand experience there, along with the first-hand experience of many years later where I somehow got it into my head and ears that Sir George did not ruin things in the process, as so many others had. I was not alone in having "The good, the bad, and the ugly" for playback at the time.
He did not mix explicitly for that medium, he merely had that in consideration, the less so as things went along.
It's The Beatles, after all; all you have to do is put the vocals out front and be done with it. Not to say that George Martin did not earn his keep in the latter stages (and very importantly, on the first album especially).
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Just exactly who do you say approached this re-release with "ill intent"?
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Oh
please ... So far as I could read from that post, not even the people releasing this venture had "ill intent," they were just pursuing the most economically feasable venture available to them at the time.
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"Edvaard, did you get the mono box, and are you listening against a mono LP?"
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Good question JJ, and no, I haven't actually yet.
'Empty Planet' is the only one making a decent argument against me on this issue. My rejoinder to him was and is; "do we want to make the general public hear what greedy sound engineers want to hear for their own selfish purpose, or do we want to be proper sonic archeologists, nay, perhaps paleontologists (time goes quickly, doesn't it?)
As a "greedy" sound recordist myself who has in fact accumulated much in the way of bootlegs, back channel gossip, past masters, etc., I ask; do we STILL need to foist all this upon the public?
The original post (please read it) focused upon the question of the preservation of the original recordings.
Please read it again.