Comments on: The Beatle’s Entire Original Catalog Remastered by Apple

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 09:19:36 +0000

I’ve bought the album and it has a very good sound quality .The stereo mixes ware compressed slightly, but the quality still remains above average.If you wish to add it to your collection I definitely recommend it.

By: Jeff Carvalho

Jeff Carvalho — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:08:00 +0000

The Rolling Stone issue with The Beatles on the cover talks about the stereo remasters a bit and mentions that just a slight amount of compresson was used… slight … on the stereo mixes.

By: Cory Shane

Cory Shane — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:36:39 +0000

Information on the Beatles website states “No compression was used on any of the mono mixes.” This obviously means there was some compression used on the stereo mixes. However, this statement (and other official statements relating to the rigorous process used to remaster the catalogue) leads me to believe that any compression used on the stereo mixes was most likely implemented tastefully and purposefully.
Thankfully, it seems we are past the silly season of gross over-compression – at least on remasters and reissues of classic albums. I’m sure the problem will remain for the mastering of modern pop music genres but this will not effect people of discerning taste who wholly ignore modern popular music.

By: Jeff Carvalho

Jeff Carvalho — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:55:20 +0000

I wholly disagree. The days of bad remasters ended after the terrible Jeff Buckley Grace fiasco. Check the latest U2 Metallica or Serge G. remasters.

These remasters for The Beatles have been in the works for years and were done by many people including Simon Gibson. Some notes from the release:

“The re-mastering process commenced with an extensive period conducting tests before finally copying the analogue master tapes into the digital medium. When this was completed, the transfer was achieved using a Pro Tools workstation operating at 24 bit 192 kHz resolution via a Prism A-D converter. Transferring was a lengthy procedure done a track at a time… When all of the albums had been transferred, each song was then listened to several times to locate any of the agreed imperfections. These were then addressed by Guy Massey, working with Audio Restoration engineer Simon Gibson. …”

These are going to be amazing.

By: akatsuki

akatsuki — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:42:45 +0000

Let me guess, massively compressed dynamic range? These remasters are rarely any good.