Beatles, the - A Hard Days Night =MONO=

Kenmerken

Conditie: Nieuw

Beschrijving

2014 EU MONO reissue on 180g vinyl LP-Beatles remastering engineers saved the best for last. Cut from the original 1/4-inch analog master tapes and pressed at Optimal in Germany on a dead-quiet 180g LP, A Hard Day’s Night affirmed the band’s top-of-...
-
 
Release date:08-09-2014(originally released in 1964)

2014 EU MONO reissue on 180g LP=  Audiophiles Get Their Wish: A Hard Day's Night Cut from the Original 1/4-Inch Analog Master Tapes and Pressed at Optimal on a Dead-Quiet LP

NO DIGITAL USED IN MASTERING CHAIN: Working at Abbey Road, Engineers Magee and Berkowitz Used Same Techniques Employed in 1960s for All-Analog Project

This Extraordinary Mono Pressing is the Definitive Analog Version of This Landmark Album

The first Beatles album to feature all-original material, A Hard Day’s Night affirmed the band’s top-of-the-world-ma status and served as the soundtrack to the film of the same name, a movie that, like the album, helped change the world. Galvanized by the arrival of new gear and methods in the recording studio, the Beatles went for broke and came up aces.

Tracks:
Songs From The Film "A Hard Day's Night"
A1 A Hard Day's Night
A2 I Should Have Known Better
A3 If I Fell
A4 I'm Happy Just To Dance With You
A5 And I Love Her
A6 Tell Me Why
A7 Can't Buy Me Love

B1 Any Time At All
B2 I'll Cry Instead
B3 Things We Said Today
B4 When I Get Home
B5 You Can't Do That
B6 I'll Be Back

Beatles remastering engineers saved the best for last. Cut from the original 1/4-inch analog master tapes and pressed at Optimal in Germany on a dead-quiet 180g LP, the Beatles' A Hard Day's Night is made by and for audiophiles. More collectable than its stereo and digital processors, and featuring utterly transparent-to-the-source sound, it is completely different than its stereo analog counterpart by way of the all-analog cutting process and audiophile-focused manufacturing. Purists rejoice: NO DIGITAL is involved in any part of the chain. This pressing presents the band as it was meant to be heard, in spectacular mono sound.

Mastered from quarter-inch master tapes at Abbey Road Studios by Grammy-winning engineer Sean Magee and Grammy-winning mastering supervisor Steve Berkowitz, A Hard Day's Night exemplifies sonic transparency and analog purity. While the recent stereo LP and CDs were created from digital remasters, Magee and Berkowitz cut the records for the A Hard Day's Night mono LP employing the same procedures used in the 1960s, guided by the original albums and 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.

The first Beatles album to feature all-original material, A Hard Day’s Night affirmed the band’s top-of-the-world-ma status and served as the soundtrack to the film of the same name, a movie that, like the album, helped change the world. Galvanized by the arrival of new gear and methods in the recording studio, the Beatles went for broke and came up aces.

With the addition of a REDD.51 mixing console at their disposal at Abbey Road, a device that increased the level of communication between producer, engineer, and band, the Beatles upped the ante not only in memorable songwriting and joyous emotion, but definitive sonics. And so now you can almost feel the repeat echo on the title track, a cue that regenerates delay and adds to the tune’s spaciousness. Similarly, the harmonica shiver on “I Should’ve Known Better” rings out with amazing purity and expansive reach.

Most significantly, the LP frames the fairly crisp top-end sound of Ringo’s drums. Throughout, his strict orders to hit the snare solidly in the middle (and not on the rims) unfold in the form of involving rhythmic beats that now seem as if they’re happening right in front of you. As for the unique 12-string jangle created by George Harrison’s Rickenbacker 360-12 12-string guitar, employed for the first time on this 1964 effort? It positively sweeps over the soundstage, preceding the likes of the Byrds. And those voices. Mesmerizing.

Don't pass up this chance to own the definitive analog pressing of this landmark recording. Audiophiles, it's what you've been requesting for decades. Now, it's a reality.


==========================
VinylVinyl.nl is een onderdeel van Rik Stoet Audio.
We zitten reeds 18 jaar aan de Elandstraat 9 te Den Haag, en veel klanten weten ons daar te vinden. We willen onze goede naam eer aan (blijven) doen, en zullen daarom elke bestelling zo goed als mogelijk verwerken.

Behalve de grammofoonplaten bieden we ook andere artikelen aan op onze site. U kunt er van op aan dat u -ook NA aflevering- kunt rekenen op onze vakkennis en nazorg.

Bestellen bij VinylVinyl.nl heeft dus voordelen:
We weten waar we het over hebben, we zijn geen doorsnee webshop.We zijn niet anoniem met allerlei 06 nummers.
U weet waar u koopt. We hebben een degelijke achtergrond met duizenden tevreden klanten.
U bent altijd welkom om poolshoogte te komen nemen.
Als draaitafel specialist komen we ook bij u thuis om te installeren of af te regelen

U bent van harte welkom, niet alleen op deze site....maar ook in onze winkel!
===========================
NIEUWS:
Wij staan op de X-Fi AudioShow in Veldhoven op 24 en 25 september.
Daar laten veel hifi merken zien wat ze kunnen. Je kunt er kijken en luisteren naar de nieuwste HiFi producten. Elke bezoeker ontvangt een gratis CD met absolute muzikale meesterwerken, zowel in opnames als genres.
Kijk voor informatie op x-fi-audioshow.nl