Re: Mono? or Stereo? Or Both?
Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 1:21 pm
If you all didn't know, with no intention of getting it whatsoever, my grandmother gave me the mono box set for my birthday. I was able to compare mixes and there is a noticable difference between the stereo and mono mixes. To be honest, there are some songs from '62-'68 that are better in stereo, while some are better in mono.
Songs such as "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party," "The Night Before," "Drive My Car," "And Your Bird Can Sing," "Lady Madonna," "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," "Don't Pass Me By" and "Helter Skelter" sound better in stereo to me than mono.
For entire albums, I'd have to cast my vote to "Please Please Me," "With the Beatles" and "Rubber Soul" being better in mono. I can't get past the vocals on the right/backing track on the left separation. (Although, in stereo (at least the '87 remix of it), the piano in "Drive My Car" is more prominent than in mono. In stereo, it plays for the chorus and the fade-out, while in mono, I can only hear it after every lyric in the chorus.)
Something to note: in mono, tracks such as "I Call Your Name," "I'm Down," "Day Tripper," "Paperback Writer," "Baby You're a Rich Man," "All You Need is Love," "I am the Walrus," "Hello Goodbye" and "Hey Jude" have longer fade-outs than they do in stereo, which is pretty cool, having been so acquainted with the stereo mixes for so long.
And about the Mono sets being on eBay for cheap...that's too good to be true. I learned from a TV show that if a deal sounds too good to be true, than it probably is!
Songs such as "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party," "The Night Before," "Drive My Car," "And Your Bird Can Sing," "Lady Madonna," "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," "Don't Pass Me By" and "Helter Skelter" sound better in stereo to me than mono.
For entire albums, I'd have to cast my vote to "Please Please Me," "With the Beatles" and "Rubber Soul" being better in mono. I can't get past the vocals on the right/backing track on the left separation. (Although, in stereo (at least the '87 remix of it), the piano in "Drive My Car" is more prominent than in mono. In stereo, it plays for the chorus and the fade-out, while in mono, I can only hear it after every lyric in the chorus.)
Something to note: in mono, tracks such as "I Call Your Name," "I'm Down," "Day Tripper," "Paperback Writer," "Baby You're a Rich Man," "All You Need is Love," "I am the Walrus," "Hello Goodbye" and "Hey Jude" have longer fade-outs than they do in stereo, which is pretty cool, having been so acquainted with the stereo mixes for so long.
And about the Mono sets being on eBay for cheap...that's too good to be true. I learned from a TV show that if a deal sounds too good to be true, than it probably is!
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