Mono Masters also includes the mono versions of The Beatles tracks original to Yellow Submarine. If you shell out the two hundred pounds sterling you also get two original stereo mixes, of Help! and Rubber Soul. You can purchase the stereo versions individually, but currently must buy The Beatles In Mono to get the mono versions. The 2009 remaster box sets have made available stereo versions of each album plus mono versions of the first ten. Further, for the mono set this collection has been altered and retitled Mono Masters.Ĩ. Originally Past Masters was two separate releases as of 2009 it is a double CD single title. Two albums of left-over single tracks and alternative versions were collected as Past Masters. The one exception was Magical Mystery Tour, which, taking after the US vinyl, became a full album. When their catalogue was first issued on CD (in 1987) the albums were standardised to follow the original UK titles. I mention them only to highlight the fact that The Beatles music has always been subject to different interpretations by engineers, producers and their record companies. Only those collectors nostalgic for the original USA albums need bother with these releases. Many of the mono mixes are not the original true mono but rather so-called "fold-down" mixes, in which the two stereo channels are collapsed to mono. For these CDs the American Capitol Records masters were used, which had additional EQ and even echo added to the UK originals. The Capitol Albums sets (released in 20) were designed to issue on CD the butchered albums as they were first presented to the American public, with tracks removed, singles added, titles split into two, etc. Canada had further distinctly different albums as did Mexico, and likely other countries as well. However, album and single releases were markedly different in the UK and the USA. Supplementary delivery of the albums was on cassette tape, eight-track and reel-to-reel, following the vinyl masters. The Beatles released music on vinyl between 19. I am sure that all of these facts can be found elsewhere, but I hope by collecting them together I can make some new observations. But I have now digested all the different stereo and mono versions and have a thing or two to say about them. Yes, I realise this happened on September 9th and I'm not exactly first with the news. It cannot go unnoticed that the entire back catalogue of The Beatles has been remastered and re-issued for the first time in 22 years.
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