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The Vox UL7120 hybrid guitar amplifier schematics:

this post is for the technician who can read circuit diagrams and is interested in the function of guitar amps' internals. I am sure there are 2 typing errors in the component values of the Vox sheet OS/117. This diagram is the transistor-pre-amp ...

again Long Tall Sally:
all released versions of the song have a quite short fade out of the last chord, that is primarily the bass guitar.
But on the Canadion edition of "The Beatles' second Album"-LP called "Long Tall Sally"(mono), the song has a longer fade out (a so called banding error)
with a ...

The US Albums (Oct. 2024):
Long Tall Sally:
as Doug Sulpy states in his books (still first choice for Beatles' outtakes and studio session mixes) the U.K. mono mix of Long Tall Sally (2009 mono CDs disc15, track10) has more (old-fashioned) reverb on Paul's vocals than the US mix (for The Beatles ...

Addendum
sorry. but I can not resist:
The US Albums (Oct. 2024):
She loves you (disc2, track11 and track22): is not the version from 2023 (Red Album disk1, track 6 Nov. 2023), i.e. the edit piece has the well known brighter sound.
I call your name (disc2, track8): mono like the first UK mix ...

Recently, it has become possible for everyone to use intelligent filters in the net to separate instruments and voices in fairly good quality. So, for analysis, it's becoming more and more irrelevant what was mixed for the original records. Therefore I have decided to end the series of "What I can ...

Rubber Soul:
again: why is the original stereo version of Rubber Soul (1965) mixed in A-B stereophony? At that time, many EMI subsidiaries gave up the dual marketing of long-playing records as only-mono and only-stereo versions. Since then, there was only a stereo version that could also be played ...

She loves you 2023
trach No 6 Disk1 red album Nov. 2023: She loves you in stereo, very nice. But if you like it the way it was mono on the original U.K. single in 1963 take the right channel, it's like or comes close to the original single. The edit piece is nicely embedded, near to perfection, to ...

She loves you:
For whatever reason: in all available CD versions of the song there is a strange sounding edit piece in the second part of the song from "pride can hurt..." to "...She loves you". There is a little more bass and more highs and perhaps a little mids missing in the vocals, all ...

hello again, after a while now some additions:

Money
There is the stereo mix with an electrical sounding (or heavily compressed) piano part. But George Martin made a mistake, he mixed up the chord changes at about 2:12, obviously expecting the end of the song, but the boys played a further, last ...

Addendum to my posts to the 2022-Revolver mixes for Rain and She Said She Said:

the last posts were a nice example of my long "reverse engineering" process to make the recording of Rain plausible. Sorry for that. :)
here's my last attempt to solve the mystery:
1) the J37 tape was recorded at 15 ...

unsolved questions left about Rain:
the used Studer J37 tape recorders had two tape speeds: 7.5 ips (inch per second) and 15 ips.
The slower speed actually isn't technically good enough for a Beatles' master tape. It would have been very experimental to use the 7.5 ips speed. So my thoughts about ...

Again a never ending story: more Rain, forget about the "Rain again" post!
At first a correction: Not a bass speaker chassis but a "White Elephant" speaker (logically not the active model RLS10 but the model RLS11 with passive speaker input, used in reverse as "microphone output") was used to ...

Rain again:
to make the complicated record session for Rain easier to understand, here the possible recording process:
starting with playing the fast drums and guitars in A maj, recorded at 50Hz standard speed. Afterward playing back the tape by varispeed at 42 Hz as a guide for John while ...

Update - The new Revolver 2022-mixes:

Paperback Writer:
The "Recording The Beatles"-book and others say that a new approach in recording the bass guitar was used. A bass speaker chassis was used as a microphone in front of the bass box. As an unwanted side effect we can hear a lightly 100 cycles ...

For You Blue:
just a brand new correction: George used his Gibson J-200 guitar with a capo at the fifth fret, not an Ukulele. I was wrong!
Source: the book of the new (Oct. 2021) "Let it be" 50th Anniversary CD-set

Wolfgang