Comments on: Mix Six: “Beatlesque”

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:28:38 +0000

Yeah, there was debate about limiting when they were doing the remasters, but they ultimately thought it added some heft that was missing from the mix.

Oh, and I really liked Let It Be…Naked. I didn't mind the clean sound and found the stripped down songs refreshing — especially “The Long and Winding Road.”

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:25:19 +0000

Well, it was certainly more catchy than the last two singles released, but maybe the label tested it in a few American markets and it kind of just sat there and did nothing…

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:28:38 +0000

Yeah, there was debate about limiting when they were doing the remasters, but they ultimately thought it added some heft that was missing from the mix.

Oh, and I really liked Let It Be…Naked. I didn't mind the clean sound and found the stripped down songs refreshing — especially “The Long and Winding Road.”

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:25:19 +0000

Well, it was certainly more catchy than the last two singles released, but maybe the label tested it in a few American markets and it kind of just sat there and did nothing…

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:28:38 +0000

Yeah, there was debate about limiting when they were doing the remasters, but they ultimately thought it added some heft that was missing from the mix.

Oh, and I really liked Let It Be…Naked. I didn't mind the clean sound and found the stripped down songs refreshing — especially “The Long and Winding Road.”

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:25:19 +0000

Well, it was certainly more catchy than the last two singles released, but maybe the label tested it in a few American markets and it kind of just sat there and did nothing…

By: bassbintwins

bassbintwins — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:02:11 +0000

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By: tonys1

tonys1 — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:50:56 +0000

For Todd Rundgren Beatle imitations/tributes, check his version of “Rain” from “Faithful” plus all of “Deface the Music” with Utopia and much of the self-titled Utopia album from 1982.

By: autodidact

autodidact — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:35:07 +0000

Thanks, Ted. I own all of these except Oasis and ELO's Wimp. I've never even heard Wimp. Surely Todd Rundgren has done some imitating of Beatles on his own work, besides the XTC production here. I say “surely” though I really don't know his catalog. I'm guessing, though.

By: autodidact

autodidact — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:27:10 +0000

I'm going to somewhat agree and disagree. The comparisons I've seen between the 1987 CDs and the new 2009 remasters -- using software to compare the frequency balance -- generally show a bump up in the bass, and some sparkle added in the extreme high frequencies. On some of the graphs I've seen a drop in frequencies around 4000-5000 Hz, which would mean guitars have less nasty bite to them, and the vocals do lose some of the overtones.

I would have preferred a transfer to digital from the master tapes with as little equalization as possible, and no limiting or dynamic compression. I'm a purist that way. The 1987 CDs are said by reliable sources to be pretty faithful to the master tapes as far as frequency response goes. Yet, on A Hard Day's Night, I like how the bass bump in the remaster brings out McCartney's bass work.

Well, you can't have everything. My biggest beef is that they shouldn't have used any limiting at all. The bass and treble boost I can live with. But I noticed the same suckout in the treble you did, which makes vocals and guitars smooth, but artificially so. Let It Be Naked has the same sanitized sound to it, but not to the same extreme.