SH Spotlight EQ SUGGESTIONS FROM SH to help the sound of Canada Beatles "HELP" - "RUBBER SOUL" CDs

So I guess they were after something like the opposite of magic when they did the transfer of Revolver for the CD.

 

Wouldn't that be, say, "1"?

 

The Revolver CD, unfortunately, was one of my earliest attempts at re-EQing something that just didn't sound right. And I just couldn't get it to sound much better. At first I blamed it on me f***ing up the EQ (and I may have been to some extent), but years later I realized the real explanation: it's simply the worst transfer jobs of all the official Beatles CDs (IMO).

 

Even more surprising to me was when I read the interview with Mike Jarrett where he mentions playing the tapes back on an old valve deck, but preferred the sound he got using a modern deck (don't know what it was). I don't remember if the old deck he tried was a C37 or not though. Either way, I don't know what he was listening for...

 

Had a fiddle with Rubber Soul this afty- definitely needs that right channel raising (Did it in Audition, not sure if I got the Q length right). Before and after comparison is revealing!

 

Do you think these same EQ tweaks would improve the sound of a BC-13 Rubber Soul needle drop?