Important information revealed includes; all the albums, including Yellow Submarine, Magical Mystery Tour and the Past Masters sets have been remastered.
Rubber Soul and Revolver will have three different mixes available, mono, original stereo and the 1987 stereo rebalances.
There will be no 5.1 mixes of any of the tracks.

Original recording equipment has been located and used for the project and the bass sound that the original cutting engineers reduced has been restored.

Expected release date is now off the record set as 2009, "Apple/EMI are not going to bodge the packaging for the sake of a bumper Christmas."

Very cool. The music will sound even better, if that's possible.

Empress said:

I bought the reissued Yellow Submarine soundtrack that was released a few years ago and the remastering and remixing on that is just...

Bodes well for next year.

I would like to hear Sgt Pepper in original mono with the bass intact!

Cloudbuster said:

Yes, I have that too. Excellent cd.

Hi CB

I am going to touch myself inappropraitely while playing Rubber Soul, Revlolver and Abbey Road.

Empress said:

Hey stranger.

HamsterHuey said:

HamsterHuey said:

That's about 100 minutes of self-touching. Quite a marathon.

Cloudbuster said:

Nice to see you around here again. You've been away on and off and so have I. Hope life is treating you well.

Empress said:

No, it's been shit. So here's to next year being an improvement.

Hope you've had a better time than I have.

Cloudbuster said:

I got the volume, so why not enjoy it?

HamsterHuey said:

Then wank away, baby.

Finally. But I'm afraid they will super-mega-maxi priced because those old shitty sounding CDs are still very expensive.

calldapplwondery83 said:

Good point. I still see those in the, like, $26 dollar range.

Hopefully we'll see those come down in price to clear out that stock before the remasters come out.

The way these are described, though, with all the alternate mixes, makes them sound like friggen boxsets. The 2-cd 1990s Anthology 1 2 and 3 I still see for around $33.

Cloudbuster said:

Great ..i'll just have to hold off a a bit longer!

I'm happy with only a remastered version of Abbey Road...

these will be yummy, though i have no idea which version is preferable.

i still need to catch up and get the first two remaster box sets, especially since i think those are the only beatles albums i don't have.

i always get sad when i hear about albums getting remastered, because it makes me think of all the albums i love that are criminally overdue for the remaster treatment...




http://prince.org/msg/8/284468

...i'm not talking about THESE albums, though i'm sure they're a lot more deserving than a lot of the FLUFF out there...

I think we all know this this means. 99% sure that the Beatles will be on Itunes when these albums come out. They'll be the last big hold out, no?

Damn! I gotta save loads of money!

Cloudbuster said:

Cheek!

PANDURITO said:

Hakuna Matata!

VinnyM27 said:

The individual bandmembers' tracks are already on there. The Beatles estate had said that they won't distribute digitally until the remaster.

fuck it.. I like the stuff I have now!

As much as I love the Beatles, I just can't justify rushing out and buying these as soon as they're available. I'll get them whenever I get around to it, but it certainly won't be a priority. Of course, I'll certainly preview them...

Se7en said:

U can almost BET that the Beatles are gonna fight the whole "buying one track" thing, or at least getting a bigger cut than everyone else does at this point, which on average is about a nickel.

But as far as remasters, this is long overdue, there albums are way out of date and need to be reworked, with artwork and everything, so DIGITAL doesnt give you that option, im not downloading a book to have on my iPod that i need a magnifying glass to see

For an example of how the albums will sound, listen to the Love CD (the soundtrack for the Cirque du Soleil show). It's insane how much better it sounds -- fuller, crisper, fresher, etc.

They might push for the "album only" approach, we'll see. I for one don't see any point of downloading a remastered album in lossy format. I'll buy the CDs (and, maybe, the LPs) and just rip them myself.

So which one to get? Mono, Stereo, or 1987 Stereo? Too many choices ...

For an example of how the albums will sound, listen to the Love CD (the soundtrack for the Cirque du Soleil show). It's insane how much better it sounds -- fuller, crisper, fresher, etc.

They might push for the "album only" approach, we'll see. I for one don't see any point of downloading a remastered album in lossy format. I'll buy the CDs (and, maybe, the LPs) and just rip them myself.

So which one to get? Mono, Stereo, or 1987 Stereo? Too many choices ...