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Anthology DVD Audio Mixes -- Amazing!
22 Nov 2006 06:12:27 -0800 rec.music.beatles
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mdspiro...
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With everyone focusing on the new LOVE mixes, I pulled my Anthology
DVD's last night, put on a set of headphones, and listened to the various songs scattered throughout. I never really studied them before ... I was always so focused on the visuals on the DVD's that I didn't pay close attention to the audio mixes. What I discovered (and I'm sure this isn't news to many of you in this group) is that George Martin already went back and re-mixed many of the songs from the original master tapes back in 1999 in preparing this DVD. Unlike the Anthology CD's that had mostly alternative takes and demos, the DVD's have the original songs, re-mixed for stereo and 5.1 (which, sadly, I do not own -- so I can't really appreciate what those 5.1 mixes might reveal.) Some of them are interrupted by interview dialogue, or cut off before they end, but many are complete mixes. The differences in those mixes are quite startling! For example -- "Rain" has the Lennon vocals way up front, centered, and the background vocals separated on both sides. The drums (the best part of that song) are mixed way down on one side -- a mistake in my opinion. "I Am The Walrus" is stereo all the way through to the end (the LOVE version is NOT the first time this was done!) and the break that comes at 2:03 is in full stereo -- not all on one channel. That's something that not even the LOVE version did! There are dozens other examples of great re-mixes from the DVD -- songs from almost every period of their recording career. Some appear with videos made to go with them, and others appear in unexpected places, like over the end credits of the 8 chapters. I wish the Anthology CD's would have also included these intact new re-mixes. They're not all successful, but absolutely worth listening to! DanKaye...
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