The Beatles / Analogue mastered Mono Vinyl Box coming in Sep
Apple/ Universal will release The Beatles in Mono, a limited 14LP vinyl box set in September with all the music within being newly mastered for vinyl from quarter-inch master tapes at Abbey Road Studios.
The CD Mono box from 2009 was created from digital remasters but this time around these new vinyl versions have been cut without the use of any digital technology.
Abbey Road Engineer Sean Magee (with mastering supervisor Steve Berkowitz) has again been in charge of the remastering process. The two men employed the same procedures used in the 1960s, guided by the original albums and by detailed transfer notes made by the original cutting engineers. They even worked in the same room where most of the albums were cut.
The box set comes with an exclusive 12-inch by 12-inch 108-page hardbound book and features new essays and a detailed history of the mastering process by author Kevin Howlett. The book is illustrated with rare studio photos of The Beatles, archive documents, and articles and advertisements sourced from 1960s publications.
All the vinyl has been manufactured for the world at Optimal Media in Germany and every mono album is available to purchase separately as well as together in the box.
With the mastering methods as described above, these records will be as close as you can get to listening to an original near-mint mono pressing from the 1960s, and despite the cost of the box, much cheaper to obtain than the originals!
The Mono Box and the albums will be released on 9 September 2014.
Mono 14LP vinyl box set with book
- • UK Pre-order: The Beatles Mono Vinyl Box Set [VINYL]
- • USA Pre-order: The Beatles in Mono Vinyl Box Set (Limited Edition)
- • CANADA Pre-order: Mono Vinyl Box Set [14 LP Vinyl]
- • GERMANY Pre-order: The Beatles in Mono Vinyl Box [Vinyl LP]
Individual Mono vinyl LPs
Please Please Me
- • USA Pre-order: Please Please Me (Mono Vinyl)
- • CANADA Pre-order: Please Please Me (Mono) [Vinyl LP]
- • GERMANY Pre-order: Please Please Me [Mono Vinyl LP]
- • FRANCE Pre-order: Please Please Me (LP, Mono)
With The Beatles
- • USA Pre-order: With The Beatles (Mono Vinyl)
- • GERMANY Pre-order: With the Beatles [Mono Vinyl LP]
- • FRANCE Pre-order: With the Beatles (LP, Mono)
A Hard Day’s Night
- • USA Pre-order: A Hard Day’s Night (Mono Vinyl)
- • CANADA Pre-order: A Hard Day’s Night (Mono) [Vinyl LP]
- • GERMANY Pre-order: A Hard Day’s Night [Mono Vinyl LP]
- • FRANCE Pre-order: A Hard Day’s Night (LP, Mono)
Beatles For Sale
- • USA Pre-order: Beatles For Sale (Mono Vinyl)
- • CANADA Pre-order: Beatles For Sale (Mono) [Vinyl LP]
- • GERMANY Pre-order: Beatles for Sale [Mono Vinyl LP]
- • FRANCE Pre-order: Beatles for Sale (LP, Mono)
Help!
- • USA Pre-order: Help! (Mono Vinyl)
- • CANADA Pre-order: Help! (Mono) [Vinyl LP]
- • GERMANY Pre-order: Help! [Mono Vinyl LP]
- • FRANCE Pre-order: Help! (LP, Mono)
Rubber Soul
- • USA Pre-order: Rubber Soul (Mono Vinyl)
- • CANADA Pre-order: Rubber Soul (Mono) [Vinyl LP]
- • GERMANY Pre-order: Rubber Soul [Mono Vinyl LP]
- • FRANCE Pre-order: Rubber Soul (LP, Mono)
Revolver
- • USA Pre-order: Revolver (Mono Vinyl)
- • CANADA Pre-order: Revolver (Mono) [Vinyl LP]
- • GERMANY Pre-order: Revolver [Mono Vinyl LP]
- • FRANCE Pre-order: Revolver (LP, Mono)
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
- • USA Pre-order: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Mono Vinyl)
- • CANADA Pre-order: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Mono) [Vinyl LP]
- • GERMANY Pre-order: Sgt.Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band [Mono Vinyl LP]
- • FRANCE Pre-order: Sgt.Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (LP, Mono)
Magical Mystery Tour
- • USA Pre-order: Magical Mystery Tour (Mono Vinyl)
- • CANADA Pre-order: Magical Mystery Tour (Mono) [Vinyl LP]
- • GERMANY Pre-order: Magical Mystery Tour [Mono Vinyl LP]
- • FRANCE Pre-order: Magical Mystery Tour (LP, Mono)
The White Album
- • USA Pre-order: The Beatles (The White Album) (Mono Vinyl 2LP)
- • CANADA Pre-order: The Beatles (White Album) (Mono) [2LP Vinyl]
- • GERMANY Pre-order: The Beatles (2lp,Mono) [Vinyl LP]
- • FRANCE Pre-order: The Beatles (2LP, Mono)
Mono Masters [3LP]
By Paul Sinclair
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