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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 ...

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 w...

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 m...

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 v...

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 cho...

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 ...

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 pl...

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 ou...

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 simultane...

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 ...

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

George Harrison: beside George Harrison's India-influenced and his Gospel -songs, there are excellent rockers ( o.k, here's the list: Taxman (with John Lennon's "secret chord" since "You can't do that": D7#9, even Herbie Hancock used an F7#9 for "Cantaloupe Island") , I...

again: Only a Northern Song: for them who love this song, there is a stereo mix on the "Yellow Submarine" CD, track 11. And last but not least there is an earlier version with snappier lyrics on Anthology disk 4 track 7. All you need is love: the Beatles pre-produced a take of "All yo...

George Martin and George Harrison: George M. somewhere told the story that George H. answered to his critical remarks "And I don't like your tie". "Since then, I loved him" Naive as I was, I took that for real. But today I'm convinced: it was ment ironicaly. They disliked each ot...

But, here are some more things, I decided to mention after all: Matchbox: after filming "A hard day's night" they came back to Abbey Road studio 2 after one month to record Matchbox. Carl Perkins, their idol, was present on studio 2. John obviously wanted to repeat his perfect Long tall Sa...