That was how I was how I initially experienced Sgt. Pepper. I was fascinated and perplexed that they bothered to write lyrics to songs like When I'm Sixty-Four but make the song largely instrumental with just occasional vocals. This was before I'd ever heard the word "karaoke" but that's what it seemed like in hindsight. Within a month I'd made a cassette copy for my Walkman. I distinctly remember riding my bike down Arcola Ave. on my way to a friend's house, listening on my cheap orange-padded headphones when I first heard that missing channel. I literally swerved, but didn't fall over.
My family's first stereo record player was an odd Packard Bell that consisted of a big unit containing the player and a radio with a full-sized speaker. It also had a much, much smaller separate amplified speaker that served as the right channel. But as a kid I wasn't paying that much attention to stereo and it had to be turned on separately, etc. etc. etc. So for a long time I thought the entire lyrics to "Hey Bulldog" were "You can talk to me." Finally one day I just happened to play it with that other speaker powered up. Oops!
Almost 50 years later, that's still my "Is this think hooked up properly?" test track.
Spin CDs never delivered on my order of the Jeff Beck "Orange" SACD so after eighteen plus months I asked them to change my order to something of the equal price, seeing as they already had my money, after another three months+ I'm still waiting. They will never get any further business from me.Well its listed on amazon.co.uk at £140.99. SpinCDs are offering it at £99.99 but I'm having a great deal of problems with them, paying for stuff that hasn't arrived, no matter what is promised.
So I'm hoping our friends at Burning Shed are going to sell it, I've asked them.
OK, let me get this straight..
NO MONO MIXES???
NEW STEREO MIXES?????
Yes you got that right. Mono went out of style the month before this album went to the presses, nobody knew at the time that stereo would outsell mono 1000/1, and the stereo would be what this album was about in the long term. Mono is available elsewhere.
Yes, there were bounced tracks tape to tape in order to get this done on a 4-track machine. Those pre-bounced tapes were held onto, and now used to remix the entire thing into fresh stereo.
Either 50% of the mix will be first generation for the first time ever, or the entire set of tracks will gain by losing a generation of tape hiss. I am not sure how many of the tracks can potentially stand to benefit from generation of tape removed. But potential is that this album will move around the room with Henry the Horse dancing the waltz across your wall right through a hog's head of real fire, which you will feel the heat.
In surround expect various animals flying through the air left to right and front to back during Good Morning Good Morning.
This album was the the 60s what Dark Side of the Moon was to the 70s. The surround 5.1 will be almost as good as a great LSD trip.
Yes you got that right. Mono went out of style the month before this album went to the presses, nobody knew at the time that stereo would outsell mono 1000/1, and the stereo would be what this album was about in the long term. Mono is available elsewhere.
Yes, there were bounced tracks tape to tape in order to get this done on a 4-track machine. Those pre-bounced tapes were held onto, and now used to remix the entire thing into fresh stereo.
Either 50% of the mix will be first generation for the first time ever, or the entire set of tracks will gain by losing a generation of tape hiss. I am not sure how many of the tracks can potentially stand to benefit from generation of tape removed. But potential is that this album will move around the room with Henry the Horse dancing the waltz across your wall right through a hog's head of real fire, which you will feel the heat.
In surround expect various animals flying through the air left to right and front to back during Good Morning Good Morning.
This album was the the 60s what Dark Side of the Moon was to the 70s. The surround 5.1 will be almost as good as a great LSD trip.
Too bad Sandoz does not manufacture it anymore.....
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Spin CDs never delivered on my order of the Jeff Beck "Orange" SACD so after eighteen plus months I asked them to change my order to something of the equal price, seeing as they already had my money, after another three months+ I'm still waiting. They will never get any further business from me.
Anyway, I have ordered SPLHCB deluxe box from The Beatles store, £106.95 with postage.
Yes you got that right. Mono went out of style the month before this album went to the presses, nobody knew at the time that stereo would outsell mono 1000/1, and the stereo would be what this album was about in the long term. Mono is available elsewhere.
Yes, there were bounced tracks tape to tape in order to get this done on a 4-track machine. Those pre-bounced tapes were held onto, and now used to remix the entire thing into fresh stereo.
Either 50% of the mix will be first generation for the first time ever, or the entire set of tracks will gain by losing a generation of tape hiss. I am not sure how many of the tracks can potentially stand to benefit from generation of tape removed. But potential is that this album will move around the room with Henry the Horse dancing the waltz across your wall right through a hog's head of real fire, which you will feel the heat.
In surround expect various animals flying through the air left to right and front to back during Good Morning Good Morning.
This album was the the 60s what Dark Side of the Moon was to the 70s. The surround 5.1 will be almost as good as a great LSD trip.
Paul Sinclair at SDE just mentioned (via e-mail) that he's been invited to a press reception at Abbey Road tomorrow where Giles Martin will be playing excerpts from the box for the press. Hopefully he'll get to hear some of the 5.1 and can report back.
SPLHCB Deluxe comes out on Friday, May 26. In the U.S., this is the day before a holiday weekend. I know that I'm hitting the road that afternoon, so my plan is to, hopefully, buy it in a brick and mortar store that day, even though it may cost more than buying it online. I really don't want my trip to be delayed waiting for the mail carrier to show up. I have FYE, Target, Best Buy and Barnes and Noble as potential retailers. Wish me luck!
Amazon US finally dropped their price. It went from $149 down to $128 and some change.
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