On Mar 13, 2008, at 12:00 PM, Stu wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> TurquoiseB wrote:
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_reply@ wrote:
> >
> >> Turq,
> > Really. Far too much treble, not enough bass, bad
> > balance between the instruments. All George Martin's
> > fault. It sounded good at the time, but that was
> > because no one else had really done much with mixing
> > at that point. Now that they have and we in the
> > audience have heard what good mixes sound like, I'm
> > sorry to say it but I find much of the Beatles' music
> > nigh unto unlistenable.
> They were mixed for AM radio. I believe some of the tracks have been
> remixed. My first Beatles album was on reel-to-reel tape (back
when you
> could get albums that way) and sounded a world apart from the LP.
> Martin was innovative and kept them from being just another also-
ran.
>
George Martin and his son went back to the Beatle's masters and
remixed many of the songs for the Cirque do Soleil show Love. Get
the soundtrack. Its a wonderful experience especially though a
good set of headphones.
Esp. the DVD version in surround sound.
