Hot Stamper Pressings of Rubber Soul Available Now
One of our good customers had a question about our Hot Stampers recently:
I notice you don’t mention whether the Beatles recordings are stereo or mono. The Rubber Soul that just arrived is stereo. I’m guessing that the one I reordered is also stereo.
Do you guys stock the mono versions? Do you say on the site when something is mono. Let me know, as I like mono versions too.
I was close with Geoff Emerick and he always stressed to me that they spent tons of time on the mono mixes and not much on the stereos (up through Revolver). So let me know if/when you have mono for Rubber Soul and Revolver and perhaps I can snatch them up.
Brian
Brian,
All our records are stereo unless we specifically mention otherwise, as are our Beatles records.
We never sell Beatles records in mono, ever.
Here is a little something I wrote about it: Revolver in disgraceful mono
They spent time on the mono mixes because getting the levels right for all the elements in a recording is ten times harder than deciding whether an instrument or voice should be placed in the left, middle or right of the soundstage.
And they didn’t even do the stereo mixes right some of the time, IMHO.
But in my book, wall to wall beats all stacked up in the middle any day of the week.