Okay, a Why Don't We Do It In The Road Fan Club then.
Why are the left channels of the stereo mixes so different looking from the right channels? Looks like they've electronically produced that channel.
No, completely different thing, George Martin remixed them again on 1987 and even added digital reverb. Heretic!
Tony.
Two of the discs in the mono set -- Help! and Rubber Soul -- include the 1965 stereo mixes and these, apparently, are not the same as the new 2009 stereo remixes (found that out yesterday, courtesy of Tony).I have to say though I'm confused. Are you guys saying that the mono box has a '65 stereo mix on it as well as the mono mix ... and that there is a different stereo mix in the stereo box?
Two of the discs in the mono set -- Help! and Rubber Soul -- include the 1965 stereo mixes and these, apparently, are not the same as the new 2009 stereo remixes (found that out yesterday, courtesy of Tony).
Would it be a dumb question to ask why the mono box has stereo mixes for these two albums, and why those two specifically ? ... before we even contemplate why they are different mixes to the ones in the stereo box.
Uncle,
My guess is that only Help! and Rubber Soul were short enough to include both versions on a single disc.
Joe
OK, scratch that. It's obvious that many of the other discs are plenty short enough to accomodate both the mono and stereo versions on a single CD, so I'm going to revise my guess in post #410 to FIIN (f$%ked if I know).The rest are less ... in some cases a lot less.
I'm hoping it starts with ELO -- (they nicked all their best riffs off the Beatles anyway).
OK, scratch that. It's obvious that many of the other discs are plenty short enough to accomodate both the mono and stereo versions on a single CD, so I'm going to revise my guess in post #410 to FIIN (f$%ked if I know).
There have been three Compact Disc releases of Help!. The first was in 1987, when the Beatles' albums were first made available on CD. In 2009 remastered stereo and mono versions of the album were released.
The first CD release was on 30 April 1987, using the 14-song UK track lineup. Having been available only as an import in the US in the past, the original 14-track UK version replaced the original US version with its release on LP and cassette on 21 July 1987. As with the CD release of the 1965 Rubber Soul album, the Help! CD featured a contemporary stereo digital remix of the album prepared by Martin in 1986. Martin had expressed concern to EMI over the original 1965 stereo remix, claiming it sounded "very woolly, and not at all what I thought should be a good issue". Martin went back to the original four-tracks tapes and remixed them for stereo.[8] One of the most notable changes is the echo added to "Dizzy Miss Lizzy", something that was not evident on the original mix of the LP. A few Canadian-origin CD editions of Rubber Soul and Help! use the original mix of the album, presumably in error.
The 2009 remastered stereo CD was released on 9 September. It was "created from the original stereo digital master tapes from Martin's CD mixes made in 1986"[9]. The disc in the mono box set contains the 1965 mono mix as well as the 1965 stereo mix.
The album was released on CD in the UK and US on 30 April 1987, using the 14-song UK track line-up. Having been available only as an import in the US in the past, the 14 track UK version of the album was issued on LP and cassette on 21 July 1987. As with the CD release of the 1965 Help! album, the Rubber Soul CD featured a contemporary stereo digital remix of the album prepared by George Martin. Martin expressed concern to EMI over the original 1965 stereo remix, claiming it sounded 'very woolly, and not at all what I thought should be a good issue'. George Martin went back to the original four-tracks tapes and remixed them for stereo.[18] A few Canadian-origin CD editions of Rubber Soul and Help! accidentally use the original mix of the album, presumably due to a mix-up.
A newly-remastered CD version of the UK album, again utilising the 1987 George Martin remix, was released worldwide on 9 September 2009. The original 1965 stereo and mono mixes were also reissued on that date as part of the mono box set.