Sounded pretty untouched to me except for the noise-shaping to 16-bit and decimating to 44.1 kHz. This new one is a landmark event to me - unfutzed Beatles masters in hi-res
I double checked it and it seems like Giles has used the outtro of the song to artificially double track the intro, one channel has the original performance but the outtro is flown into the other channel: The four tracks are, in order: Outtro from Rockband stems 2018 remix left channel 2018 remix right channel Intro from Rockband stems Note that the spectral plot of the outtro matches one channel of the remix and the the true intro matches the other channel!
I must’ve “lucked out” with a rare bad pressing, then - my copy is incredibly noisy, even after a pass through all three RCMs (VPI 16.5, Spin Clean, and Klaudio ultrasonic) and spending an hour or so doing a fresh setup on my TT. Very bummed. Sending it back to Amazon for a replacement.
Not to get too far off the rails, but why do we get a high-res flat transfer of the mono masters for these albums and not the same for stereo? It's a rhetorical question -- just a bit frustrating (to me).
Totally agree. Both mono and stereo should have been there. And frankly lots more, too. But at least Apple is learning. On Pepper 50 we had a compressed blu ray remix and the mono on CD only. Third time's a charm!
I wonder if they put the unlimited master on Blu-Ray because of customer complaints about the compression on the Pepper Blue-Ray?
Thanks for posting further. I've now listened (which I find to be more persuasive than comparing the spectrograms) to the original mix and the remix of the intros and outros, and heard what you're referring to. But why is what Giles appears to have done here "absolutely baffling" to you? It is a remix, after all, and the original mix had double-tracked guitars at certain points in the intro.
Still think The Kinks Village Green 50th Anniversary box is the template to go. Have the Stereo/Mono LPS housed in a big thick textured box with loads of other goodies.
I'd think because it actually involves flying in a segment from elsewhere. More than a mere mixing of the extant tracks. I'm a little surprised (and a little disappointed) to learn this. But it won't keep me up at night. Good ears & sleuthing by the discoverers....
The original double tracking was ADT, which was just a delayed version of the same performance. This is akin to manually double tracking the performance, which if it was the artists original intention, they would have done it. Giles seems to have an allergy to leaving mono elements alone, it's hard to find many elements in his mixes that aren't artificially double tracked in stereo to give the illusion of "more tracks".
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (Take 3) sounds better than the album version due the Guitar instead the Piano intro! overall sounds with more balls! more energy with the Guitar.
