The Beatles In Mono: The Complete Mono Recordings

摘要

The Beatles in Mono poses two questions: what was the historical function of monaural n(mono) mixes in the Beatles discography, and what were the consequences of setting in mono the tone and balance as unchangeable by home playback equipment? Thinking on nthese questions leads to a new answer to the question I posed in the review in these pag-nes of the stereo set (ARSC Journal, 2010[41:1];124-128), that is, whether the innovations nin recording technology, sound (tone) quality, and compositional growth in the Beatles’ nrecordings may have been related or interrelated to each other, and if so, how?