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The Beatles - Then and Now
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With the remastered Beatles catalogue about to hit the shops, ABC Dig Music offers its own supermarket-style blindfold taste test.
The two pieces of audio below - cunningly disguised as Sample A and Sample B - are extracts from the Fab Four's first single Love Me Do...originally launched on October 5 1962.
One of the samples is taken from the original 1987 CD pressing of the album Please Please Me, the other from the brand new remastered version.
To be fair, this track isn't the most spectacularly-improved example of all those released...many of the songs really benefit from the attentions of the boffins at Beatles HQ, and in some cases the difference really is remarkable.
But can YOU spot the difference? Which is the original and which the newly-polished version?
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The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960 and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. The group's best-known lineup consisted of John Lennon (rhythm guitar, vocals), Paul McCartney (bass guitar, vocals), George Harrison (lead guitar, vocals) and Ringo Starr (drums, vocals). Rooted in skiffle and 1950s rock and...
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Comments
Clearly number 2 is the new one. More seperation, less tinny etc etc.
Beauty is in the ear of the Beholder.
I preferred A. More separation, less muddy in the tambourine and harmonica. More separation of the vocals. More dynamic range.
I would like to know which is which, so I don't buy the new version and be dissappointed!
If i'm not mistaken, samples have been added to B on the snare which werent on the original. A sounds like a stereo mix re-sampled. B sounds like a multi track remixed and tampered with.
whichever was the original, it clearly wasn't broken.
Sample A is bright and sparkly with heaps of separation and clarity of the instruments. Sample B is dull, muddy and obviously the original. The remastering sounds great to me, like anything that has come out of those studios in the last century.
putting my neck on the line... sample A sounds better but is it the remastered one? Sample B has more mid range in the eq.
I'm voting is the new version....
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