The same holds true for the songs " The Ballad of John and Yoko", " Old Brown Shoe" and the single mix of " Let It Be", which were also omitted. The albums Yellow Submarine, Abbey Road and Let It Be are not included in this set, as no true mono mixes of these albums were issued. (In 1986 both albums had been remixed by George Martin for their CD release in 1987.) The box contains a new two-disc compilation album titled Mono Masters, which compiles all the mono mixes of singles, B-sides and EP tracks that did not originally appear on any of the UK albums or Magical Mystery Tour. The original 1965 stereo mixes of Help! and Rubber Soul are included on the CD version as bonuses on their respective albums. The thirteen-disc (fourteen on LP) collection contains the remastered mono versions of every Beatles album released in true mono. ( May 2010) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This section needs additional citations for verification. All of the American albums can be had on CD individually in mono paired with the original stereo mixes this is the only other way to acquire the mono mixes on CD. Individual mono albums on vinyl still available are: Rubber Soul, Revolver, The Beatles, and Mono Masters, a 3-LP set of singles.įive years after the initial CD release, mono editions of each of the albums are available individually in the vinyl format, though the mono editions for CD are still available only in the box set. As of July 2018, the CD set is still readily available however, the vinyl box set is out of print. It is still to remain a "limited edition", but since it has already been certified platinum by the RIAA, it was not limited to 10,000 copies as originally stated. ĮMI announced on 3 September that more mono boxed sets were to be pressed due to high demand from online pre-orders. Less than two weeks before 9 September, many other online retailers announced the selling out of units from their inventories, including the Canadian Amazon.ca site. Limited edition Ī advertised the set as a limited edition item in the United States, and less than a month prior to the set's release announced the site had sold out of units. It was a heavy record, but the stereo mix made it into a piece of ice-cream. John Lennon did not like the stereo mix of his song " Revolution" on the 1967-1970 compilation album. You know, we had everything coming out of one speaker now it had to come out of two speakers. When they invented stereo, I remember thinking 'Why? What do you want two speakers for?', because it ruined the sound from our point of view. And there was one speaker right in the middle and that was it. George Harrison commented:Īt that time the console was about this big with four faders on it. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, all the mono mixes were done together with the Beatles themselves, throughout the recording of the album, whereas the stereo mixes were done in only six days by Abbey Road personnel George Martin, Geoff Emerick and Richard Lush after the album had been finished, with none of the Beatles attending. Many feel that the mono mixes reflect the true intention of the band. Therefore, the last few Beatles albums- Yellow Submarine, Abbey Road, and Let It Be-were mixed and released only in stereo. By the late sixties, however, stereo recording for pop music was becoming more popular and, thus, the new standard. This explains why the Beatles' initial album releases were mixed for mono. Stereo recordings were a fairly new concept for pop music in the 1960s and did not become standard until late in that decade.
The Beatles in Mono was released to reflect the fact that most of the Beatles' catalogue was originally mixed and released in the monophonic format. The boxed set was released on 180-gram heavyweight vinyl on 8 September 2014, mastered directly from the original analog tapes and not the digital masters used for the CD release. The release date of 09/09/09 is related to the significance to John Lennon of the number nine. The remastering project for both mono and stereo versions was led by EMI senior studio engineers Allan Rouse and Guy Massey. The set was released on compact disc on 9 September 2009, the same day the remastered stereo recordings and companion The Beatles (The Original Studio Recordings) were also released, along with The Beatles: Rock Band video game. The Beatles in Mono is a boxed set compilation comprising the remastered monaural recordings by the Beatles. The Beatles (The Original Studio Recordings) Simon Gibson, Paul Hicks, Sean Magee, Guy Massey, Sam Okell, Steve Rooke, Allan Rouse (remaster engineers)
11 September 1962–4 January 1970 at EMI, Trident, Olympic, Apple, Chappell, De Lane Lea and Regent Sound studios, London Pathé Marconi Studio, Paris HMV Studios, Bombay
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