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Wow! That is impressive. I don't think I've ever seen the cover before. Very very rare.
Just Ordered The Mccartney Years............surely not the best selection of his library, but enough good stuff in 5.1 to make Snood :51banana:
Thank You SurroundofMusic :banana:
and that multitrack sound-board masters have been found of some of the concerts.
What is the source for this information? I didn't see anything about multitrack tapes in the linked articles.
Even if they found multitrack tapes, they'd be 3-track at best (such as what they had for The Hollywood Bowl concerts).
J. D.
Billboard Magazine said:Early research for the project, conducted by One Voice One World, has yielded footage shot in 8mm and Super 8 that has never been available to the public. Simultaneously, producers have been reaching out to collectors and finding soundboard recordings, some of which are multi-track, which can now be married.
Anyway, the AHDN 5.1 mixes are a bit limited just because it's three guitars, one drum kit and a cowbell (AHDN), usually with double-tracked vocals. So, you don't get the number of instruments that are available on say Rubber Soul, even though both albums were 4-track recordings. Separating the instruments is now do-able, if Apple chooses to do so. So that the drums, bass and rhythm guitar are recorded on one track isn't that much of an obstacle anymore with time and money. I would truly enjoy hearing a good mix of And I Love Her with the lead guitar properly mixed.
That is like getting an egg yolk out of a baked sponge cake.
You cannot split out Drums, Bass & Rhythm guitars from a mono stream into the component parts. That is like getting an egg yolk out of a baked sponge cake, and it matters not what spectral editing package you have in 10 second bursts you ain't splitting a rhythm section into component bits without nasty artefacts.
Doing this properly would be a case of going back to the 4-track submix tapes that got bounced to the mono track in the first place, as was done with Crimson's ITCOTCK.
I'm not even sure that they were bouncing and submixing tracks in this manner during AHDN. Mark Lewisohn's "Recording Sessions" book describes the song AHDN as having "basic rhythm" on track 1, John's first vocal on track 2, John's second vocal, Paul's vocal, bongos drums and acoustic guitar on track 3, and the "jangling guitar notes at the end of the song and George Martin's piano on track 4.
I suppose it's possible that tracks 1 or 3 were mixdowns from another 4 track, but he doesn't mention that. Since Abbey Road had just recently gotten a 4-track machine (the first Beatles' song recorded on 4-track was "I Want To Hold Your Hand"), I don't know that they would have had two?
As near as I can tell, Lewisohn's book doesn't mention when they first started doing bounce-downs of tracks or utilizing two 4-track machines, but the first mention of a "reduction mix" I can find is for "Michelle". Although some of the techniques described for the Help! recordings sound like they have been doing that then too.
You are correct. The only bounce-down on Rubber Soul was Michelle. That's the equivalent of a 5-track recording...
Starting with "Beatles For Sale", EMI saved all the tapes used in Beatles recording sessions, making possible a recent synchronizing of all the tracks that were mixed down then, so they now have true multitracks to work from in any remixing.The 5.1 mix of Drive My Car on the Love album sounds like there is a number of discreet components. So is there not a bounce-down on that track from Rubber Soul as well?
The 5.1 mix of Drive My Car on the Love album sounds like there is a number of discreet components. So is there not a bounce-down on that track from Rubber Soul as well?
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