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Limited Edition Mono 180g 14LP Box Set!
All-Analog Remastered from the 1/4" Master Tapes at Abbey Road and Pressed at Optimal in Germany!
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The Beatles in mono: This is how most listeners first heard the group in the 1960s, when mono was the predominant audio format. Up until 1968, each Beatles album was given a unique mono and stereo mix, but the group always regarded the mono as primary. The Beatles nine U.K. albums, the American-compiled Magical Mystery Tour, and the Mono Masters collection of non-album tracks are released in mono on 180-gram vinyl LPs with faithfully replicated artwork. Newly mastered from the analogue master tapes, all 11 album are available in a lavish, limited 14-LP boxed edition, The Beatles In Mono, which also includes a 108-page hardbound book.
In an audiophile-minded undertaking, The Beatles acclaimed mono albums have been newly mastered for vinyl from quarter-inch master tapes at Abbey Road Studios by GRAMMY®-winning engineer Sean Magee and GRAMMY®-winning mastering supervisor Steve Berkowitz. While The Beatles In Mono CD boxed set released in 2009 was created from digital remasters, for this new vinyl project, Magee and Berkowitz cut the records without using any digital technology. Instead, they employed the same procedures used in the 1960s, guided by the original albums and by detailed transfer notes made by the original cutting engineers.
Working in the same room at Abbey Road where most of The Beatles albums were initially cut, the pair first dedicated weeks to concentrated listening, fastidiously comparing the master tapes with first pressings of the mono records made in the 1960s. Using a rigorously tested Studer A80 machine to play back the precious tapes, the new vinyl was cut on a 1980s-era VMS80 lathe.
Manufactured for the world at Optimal Media in Germany, The Beatles albums are presented in their original glory, both sonically and in their packaging. The boxed collections exclusive 12-inch by 12-inch hardbound book features new essays and a detailed history of the mastering process by award-winning radio producer and author Kevin Howlett. The book is illustrated with many rare studio photos of The Beatles, fascinating archive documents, and articles and advertisements sourced from 1960s publications.
"The albums are presented in their original glory, both sonically and in their packaging. The 180 gram records, pressed at Optimal in Germany for world-wide distribution, were mastered at Abbey Road Studios using the original ¼" analogue master tapes played back on a mono headstock, preview-head equipped, Studer A80. No dynamic compression and minimal equalization will hopefully produce the best ever sounding Beatles reissues.
"The jackets look fantastic-nothing like the stereo box set's unreasonable facsimile. These are fold over laminated, with opaque paper on the back very close to the originals right down to the "Garrod and Lofthouse" printer credit. The reproduction of the artwork appears to be spot-on and though the video shows The Beatles jacket opening to the side, the actual jacket will be "top loading" just like the original...Steve Berkowitz said he took the records out of the shipping box and played them in Los Angeles and they were flat, shiny and dead silent and that they were. All LPs were pressed at Optimal for worldwide distribution. So based on how I know this was produced and on this look and listen I think we are in for a real musical and sonic treat next September!" -Michael Fremer, analogplanet.com
"But most of all, what makes these remasters special is the warmth of the vinyl period details that evoke the same sensations as muscle cars or the swish of miniskirts in film clips of '60s street scenes - an intangible memory flash, a tantalizing tug of nostalgia that brings back the summer days when the high-pitched sound at the end of "Long Long Long" would wake up your childhood dog or the fade-out of "She Said She Said" reflexively told you it was time to get up and flip the album. These records bring an impressively (and affordably) vintage Beatles listening experience, even if you're using a Crosley rather than a 1960s-era Close 'N Play record player. At best, for younger fans it's a more authentic experience than the past couple of generations have had; for those longer in the tooth, it's like finding photos from your childhood that you'd never seen before."-NPR
"This was how The Beatles heard themselves, and what comes across strongly is the sense of indivisible unity they convey. Shortly after, stereo would usher in overdubbing and an emphasis on individual ability that tore groups apart. By contrast, this isn't just four gifted individuals you hear here, it's a band, and one heck of a great band, at that." -The Independent
"I found the collection oft revealing, and I was exposed to nooks and crannies lost or rendered muddy when compressed for FM radio broadcast or heard on those horrible first compact disc versions. On the proper gear and heard in an acoustically decent room or on noncrappy headphones, sounds pop and erupt from the mono albums with a force that suggests not just a hot band hitting its peak but a producer hitting his as well, both harnessing high-tech gear to great effect." -Los Angeles Times
"That in 2014 a major entertainment conglomerate released an all-analog, superbly packaged set of 14 LPs is, by any definition, miraculous... Meticulously mastered from the original master tapes by Sean Magee and Steve Berkowitz (tape copies were used for first LP and Mono Masters 2-LP compilation), and well pressed by Optimal, in Germany, the discs in this set are arguably the best-sounding mono Beatles albums ever releasedand that includes the original pressings, which were bass-shy in order to be playable on that era's kiddie phonographs. At $328 including a hardcover book, it's a bargain that won't be around forever. " - Michael Fremer, 2015 Stereophile Magazine Record to Die For!
Features:
Limited Edition 14LP Box Set (11 Albums)
180g Vinyl
Mono
Remastered at Abbey Road Studios
Newly mastered for vinyl from quarter-inch master tapes by GRAMMY®-winning engineer Sean Magee and GRAMMY®-winning mastering supervisor Steve Berkowitz
Faithfully replicated artwork
Newly mastered from the analogue master tapes
Manufactured at Optimal Media in Germany
Exclusive 12" x 12" 108-page hardbound book
Selections:
Please Please Me
Side One:
1. I Saw Her Standing There
2. Misery
3. Anna (Go To Him)
4. Chains
5. Boys
6. Ask Me Why
7. Please Please Me
Side Two:
1. Love Me Do
2. P.S. I Love You
3. Baby It's You
4. Do You Want To Know A Secret
5. A Taste Of Honey
6. There's A Place
7. Twist And Shout
With the Beatles
Side One:
1. It Won't Be Long
2. All I've Got To Do
3. All My Loving
4. Don't Bother Me
5. Little Child
6. Till There Was You
7. Please Mister Postman
Side Two:
1. Roll Over Beethoven
2. Hold Me Tight
3. You Really Got A Hold On Me
4. I Wanna Be Your Man
5. Devil In Her Heart
6. Not A Second Time
7. Money (That's What I Want)
A Hard Day's Night
Side One:
1. A Hard Day's Night
2. I Should Have Known Better
3. If I Fell
4. I'm Happy Just To Dance With You
5. And I Love Her
6. Tell Me Why
7. Can't Buy Me Love
Side Two:
1. Any Time At All
2. I'll Cry Instead
3. Things We Said Today
4. When I Get Home
5. You Can't Do That
6. I'll Be Back
Beatles For Sale
Side One:
1. No Reply
2. I'm A Loser
3. Baby's In Black
4. Rock And Roll Music
5. I'll Follow The Sun
6. Mr Moonlight
7. Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey
8. Eight Days A Week
Side Two:
1. Words Of Love
2. Honey Don't
3. Every Little Thing
4. I Don't Want To Spoil The Party
5. What You're Doing
6. Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby
Help!
Side One:
1. Help!
2. The Night Before
3. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
4. I Need You
5. Another Girl
6. You're Going To Lose That Girl
7. Ticket To Ride
Side Two:
1. Act Naturally
2. It's Only Love
3. You Like Me Too Much
4. Tell Me What You See
5. I've Just Seen A Face
6. Yesterday
7. Dizzy Miss Lizzy
Rubber Soul
Side One:
1. Drive My Car
2. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
3. You Won't See Me
4. Nowhere Man
5. Think For Yourself
6. The Word
7. Michelle
Side Two:
1. What Goes On
2. Girl
3. I'm Looking Through You
4. In My Life
5. Wait
6. If I Needed Someone
7. Run For Your Life
Revolver
Side One:
1. Taxman
2. Eleanor Rigby
3. I'm Only Sleeping
4. Love You To
5. Here, There And Everywhere
6. Yellow Submarine
7. She Said She Said
Side Two:
1. Good Day Sunshine
2. And Your Bird Can Sing
3. For No One
4. Doctor Robert
5. I Want To Tell You
6. Got To Get You Into My Life
7. Tomorrow Never Knows
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Side One:
1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
2. With A Little Help From My Friends
3. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
4. Getting Better
5. Fixing A Hole
6. She's Leaving Home
Side Two:
1. Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite!
2. Within You Without You
3. When I'm Sixty Four
4. Lovely Rita
5. Good Morning Good Morning
6. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
7. A Day In The Life
Magical Mystery Tour
Side One:
1. Magical Mystery Tour
2. The Fool On The Hill
3. Flying
4. Blue Jay Way
5. Your Mother Should Know
6. I Am The Walrus
Side Two:
1. Hello, Goodbye
2. Strawberry Fields Forever
3. Penny Lane
4. Baby, You're A Rich Man
5. All You Need Is Love
The Beatles (The White Album)
LP 1 - Side 1:
1. Back in the U.S.S.R.
2. Dear Prudence
3. Glass Onion
4. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
5. Wild Honey Pie
6. The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill
7. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
8. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
LP 1 - Side 2:
1. Martha My Dear
2. I'm So Tired
3. Blackbird
4. Piggies
5. Rocky Raccoon
6. Don't Pass Me By
7. Why Don't We Do It In The Road?
8. I Will
9. Julia
LP 2 - Side 3:
1. Birthday
2. Yer Blues
3. Mother Nature's Son
4. Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
5. Sexy Sadie
6. Helter Skelter
7. Long, Long, Long
LP 2 - Side 4:
1. Revolution 1
2. Honey Pie
3. Savoy Truffle
4. Cry Baby Cry
5. Revolution 9
6. Good Night
Mono Masters (3LP)
LP 1 - Side 1:
1. Love Me Do (Original Single Version)
2. From Me To You
3. Thank You Girl
4. She Loves You
5. I'll Get You
6. I Want To Hold Your Hand
7. This Boy
LP 1 - Side 2:
1. Komm Gib Mir Deine Hand
2. Sie Liebt Dich
3. Long Tall Sally
4. I Call Your Name
5. Slow Down
6. Matchbox
7. I Feel Fine
8. She's A Woman
LP 2 - Side 3:
1. Bad Boy
2. Yes It Is
3. I'm Down
4. Day Tripper
5. We Can Work It Out
6. Paperback Writer
7. Rain
LP 2 - Side 4:
1. Lady Madonna
2. The Inner Light
3. Hey Jude
4. Revolution
LP 3 - Side 5:
1. Only A Northern Song
2. All Together Now
3. Hey Bulldog
4. It's All Too Much
LP 3 - Side 6:
1. Get Back
2. Don't Let Me Down
3. Across The Universe
4. You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)
