The Beatles she's leaving home correct speed mono or stereo

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  1. For the Record

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    The stereo sounds like the music was sped up while recording the vocals. But then adjusted BACK to the correct speed, giving the vocals a lower sound than Paul's natural pitch.

    The mono sounds like the whole recording was sped up to the speed the vocals were recorded in leaving the music to sound sped up. (Which it technically is)

    The stereo has the music and vocals in the correct key though. (Someone already confirmed this)

    As for backing vocals, it sounds like the both slowed down and sped up the music while recording, to give each vocal a different "sound"
     
  2. Drifter

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    The question is, what is the correct speed? The speed the instruments were recorded at, or the speed Paul's and John's vocals were recorded at? IMO, the stereo speed drags and the vocals sound wrong slowed down.

    Ok, this makes sense and is what many of us feel is the case.

    :confused: This is contradictory to your earlier statements, and who is this person who somehow could "confirm" something that makes absolutely no sense? Also, what do you mean by the "correct key"? Sure, we all pretty much agree that the orchestration was recorded in E major, but most of us believe the vocals were recorded in F major (well, just shy of F major). Thus the speed the vocals were recorded in could be considered the "correct key" for playback.

    Both John and Paul sound slowed down on the stereo to me.
     
  3. snorker

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    The fact that the mixes were done a month apart probably accounts for most of the differences. For some songs on Pepper they mixed stereo and mono on the same day or just one day apart. For the most part though, the stereo mixes were done a month or so after the mono mixes. Contrary to popular belief (in the mainstream media, not on this forum) they did not mix the entire album to mono and then go back and mix the entire album to stereo. It was song-by-song, but mostly the stereo mix of each song was done after the mono mix. One exception is Good Morning Good Morning, where they did both a mono and stereo mix on April 6, 1967, but then replaced the April 6 mono mix with one done on April 19, 1967 where they were supposedly trying to fix the "cluck" at the end. Not to say there weren't differences even when mixed at about the same time: for example Within You Without You was mixed to both mono and stereo on the same day (April 4, 1967), yet as we all know the laugh at the end is different on each mix.
     
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