I can only hope they didn't mess it up in any way. But I was really pleased with the sound on Let It Be...Naked

The Beatles don't mess with the legacy too much, which is smart.

oh yeah I am counting the days baby!
If I was going to be a spoil't brat about it tho
I'd say that I was really wishing for surround sound
mixes of the albums. That Love album sounds amaaaaazing
in surround!

Damn. Picked my birthday present too early.

But still not on itunes.

ill stick with the "breakfast with the beatles" show here in LA on sunday mornings n tape it all which is what ive been doing for awhile.. have a nice chunk of beatles jams on tape ...
[Edited 8/5/09 15:40pm]

i can't WAIT to hear The White Album in all its glory

I hope they visited this site before the remastering:

http://www.turnmeup.org/

I've got a number of 'remasters' that I never listen to because they've been compressed to death.

TRON said:

i ordered him one!

Can't wait! Looks good. Worth the $200 investment!

I don't believe I finally bought a Beatles CD ("Abbey Road") right before. The sound is not good and it does need remastering, so I'm going to try and pawn it off before these re releases happen.

VinnyM27 said:

I was at Borders today and was kid of surprised that on a lot of the Beatles CD's (and they had a lot - they must be trying to get rid of the old stock), there were stickers that said "Rock Band and Remasters are coming 9/9/09!"


I've never seen promotion right on a CD itself that basically says "DO NOT BUY THIS, SOMETHING BETTER IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER!"

TyphoonTip said:

I know what you're talkin bout homes. I hate the hyper limited remasters with a passion. Absolutely ruins some great albums for me.

I have faith that these are gonna be great! If the love album is anything to go by we're in for a treat!
Here's an article on the remastering. Ps I'm gettin the mono set as these mixes were worked on by alot more meticulously by the band and their engineers.

Mono Masters
Re-mastering the Beatles catalogue

The re-mastering process commenced with an extensive period conducting tests before finally copying the analogue master tapes into the digital medium. When this was completed, the transfer was achieved using a Pro Tools workstation operating at 24 bit 192 kHz resolution via a Prism A-D converter. Transferring was a lengthy procedure done a track at a time. Although EMI tape does not suffer the oxide loss associated with some later analogue tapes, there was nevertheless a slight build up of dust, which was removed from the tape machine heads between each title.

From the onset, considerable thought was given to what audio restorative processes were going to be allowed. It was agreed that electrical clicks, microphone vocal pops, excessive sibilance and bad edits should be improved where possible, so long as it didn’t impact on the original integrity of the songs.

In addition, de-noising technology, which is often associated with re-mastering, was to be used, but subtly and sparingly. Eventually, less than five of the 525 minutes of Beatles music was subjected to this process. Finally, as is common with today’s music, overall limiting - to increase the volume level of the CD - has been used, but on the stereo versions only. However, it was unanimously agreed that because of the importance of The Beatles’ music, limiting would be used moderately, so as to retain the original dynamics of the recordings.

When all of the albums had been transferred, each song was then listened to several times to locate any of the agreed imperfections. These were then addressed by Guy Massey, working with Audio Restoration engineer Simon Gibson.

Mastering could now take place, once the earliest vinyl pressings, along with the existing CDs, were loaded into Pro Tools, thus allowing comparisons to be made with the original master tapes during the equalization process. When an album had been completed, it was auditioned the next day in studio three – a room familiar to the engineers, as all of the recent Beatles mixing projects had taken place in there – and any further alteration of EQ could be addressed back in the mastering room. Following the initial satisfaction of Guy and Steve, Allan Rouse and Mike Heatley then checked each new re-master in yet another location and offered any further suggestions. This continued until all 13 albums were completed to the team’s satisfaction.

VinnyM27 said:

Starting at the end? Interesting.

No limiting on the mono remasters!!!!!

Sdldawn said:

Oh Holy Fuck.

I can not WAIT to hear The White Album.

Sdldawn said:

theAudience said:

I'd only buy such items for the sake of watching them destroyed.

Moonbeam said:

moonbeam you are absofuckinglutely BONKERS!!

Sdldawn said:

Sdldawn said:

Those are spread out in the weirdest order...

AlexdeParis said:

I was thinking the exact same thing

connorhawke said:

it's to titillate the mind.

Remastered in Mono? How exciting?

connorhawke said:

Switching Yellow Submarine with Past Masters gives it a little sense of order.

I can't decide which one I will listen to first... but I suspect it will be Abbey Road.

Can't wait!

NoVideo said:

I think I'd have to go in order, so Please Please Me is first

Sdldawn said:

That's bad-ass!

paisleypark4 said:

At least for the first 6 or 7 albums, the mono mixes were the ones that the band worked on and approved, as well as being the ones which all the time was spent on perfecting. They are NOT "fold downs" (taking the stereo mix and hitting the mono button) of the stereo mixes by any means but completely different mixes.
The stereo mixes were seen as more of a novelty and done almost as an after thought. So, yes, the thought of having all "the" mono mixes is VERY EXCITING!