Save The Beatles Catalog
therockman
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I am starting this thread in response to a
comment made over at the Good Recordings
thread. Somebody over at that thread
mentioned that they thought that LET IT
BE-NAKED was a good recording and I pointed
out that this title has some serious sonic
flaws. To be specific, LET IT BE-NAKED is not a recording, the LET IT BE sessions were
recordings. LET IT BE-NAKED is a home media
titile of these sessions. The 1987 CD of LET
IT BE is a much better release of these
sessions, from a technical and sonic
perspective.
About a year ago I was involved in the
creation of a non-profit organization called
Save The Beatles Catalog which can be
contacted
here . This group is dedicated to saving the Beatles catalog because the last few releases of Beatles material have been dismal at best. The recent releases like BEATLES 1, LET IT BE-NAKED and Yellow Submarine Songbook are all digitally enhanced and digitally manipulated releases of some beautiful classic music. These releases have distorted and maximized and compressed versions of some otherwise classic Beatle music, and my organization is working to preserve the Beatles catalog in its original state.
Anyone who has read my posts here over the last few months, including my comments over at the Jimi Hendrix thread, know that I am a bit fastidious about my home media collection. For example, back in the early days of CD, the Jimi Hendrix catalog was released in some very beautiful releases in Japan, but the new Experience Hendrix releases of these same titles are overly compressed and maximized. This really irks me because this is classic music that needs to be preserved for the future. Well the same is true for the Beatles catalog, it is being neglected and destroyed because of some big companies that can't deal with this material properlly. The group started out small, me and about 7 other people, but it has growen to an international community of well over 1,000 members. The group is headed by the respected Beatologist Andrew Croft and was featured prominately in the December, 2003 issue of Beatlolgy magazine. It was also mentioned in a recent Time magazine artical as well.
Although I am actively working to save the Hendrix catalog and the Beatles catalog, there are some people who buy the new CDs of these bands and have no idea how distorted they really are. I have posted here at the Polk Forum many times regarding digital compression and maximization, and how much they bother me (I also belong to a non-profit organization that is working to end digital compression of CDs), but if the home audio enthusiasts do not work to stop these prctices, the big companies will continue to employ these bad techniques in all future release.
Rocky Bennett
comment made over at the Good Recordings
thread. Somebody over at that thread
mentioned that they thought that LET IT
BE-NAKED was a good recording and I pointed
out that this title has some serious sonic
flaws. To be specific, LET IT BE-NAKED is not a recording, the LET IT BE sessions were
recordings. LET IT BE-NAKED is a home media
titile of these sessions. The 1987 CD of LET
IT BE is a much better release of these
sessions, from a technical and sonic
perspective.
About a year ago I was involved in the
creation of a non-profit organization called
Save The Beatles Catalog which can be
contacted
here . This group is dedicated to saving the Beatles catalog because the last few releases of Beatles material have been dismal at best. The recent releases like BEATLES 1, LET IT BE-NAKED and Yellow Submarine Songbook are all digitally enhanced and digitally manipulated releases of some beautiful classic music. These releases have distorted and maximized and compressed versions of some otherwise classic Beatle music, and my organization is working to preserve the Beatles catalog in its original state.
Anyone who has read my posts here over the last few months, including my comments over at the Jimi Hendrix thread, know that I am a bit fastidious about my home media collection. For example, back in the early days of CD, the Jimi Hendrix catalog was released in some very beautiful releases in Japan, but the new Experience Hendrix releases of these same titles are overly compressed and maximized. This really irks me because this is classic music that needs to be preserved for the future. Well the same is true for the Beatles catalog, it is being neglected and destroyed because of some big companies that can't deal with this material properlly. The group started out small, me and about 7 other people, but it has growen to an international community of well over 1,000 members. The group is headed by the respected Beatologist Andrew Croft and was featured prominately in the December, 2003 issue of Beatlolgy magazine. It was also mentioned in a recent Time magazine artical as well.
Although I am actively working to save the Hendrix catalog and the Beatles catalog, there are some people who buy the new CDs of these bands and have no idea how distorted they really are. I have posted here at the Polk Forum many times regarding digital compression and maximization, and how much they bother me (I also belong to a non-profit organization that is working to end digital compression of CDs), but if the home audio enthusiasts do not work to stop these prctices, the big companies will continue to employ these bad techniques in all future release.
Rocky Bennett
Rocky Bennett
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Of course everybody knows that the new Beatles boxset of CDs comes out in October, but the big question is which tapes are they going to use, and how is this boxset going to be mastered. The boxset is going to reproduce the original American albums that were released on vinyl in the mid 60s, but they probably will not use the Capitol tapes. Instead it is hoped that EMI will use the Parlophone tapes for these songs, which are better sonically.
Rocky BennetRocky Bennett -
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I really wish they would release The Beatles on SACD.Political Correctness'.........defined
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