Posted on 02/02/2010 10:26:59 AM PST by Lancey Howard
Hello...!!!
HOW did you "reverse it"?????
(This is all I've been trying to figure out all along. And obviously, however I can do this I want to isolate it to these Beatles CDs so I don't go messing up the sound of my other 80 billion MP3s.)
HOW did you "reverse it"?????
Oh..., I just saw this post... when coming back to the thread. Sorry for missing it earlier.
I used VLC Media Player -- and played the music on that program. It's not a program that you would use for your music collection in normally playing it, but it was good enough for testing it out and seeing how it sounded.
Otherwise, I'm sure you can find some kind of software solution out there on the market. And... come to think about it, you probably don't want to switch your channels back and forth, even if you do find a software solution, so probably you want to re-encode your "playing music files" (of certain Beatles songs) with the channels reversed already, so you don't have to do it on your "player".
To do that, take the uncompressed data from the CD and get a audio program and reverse the channels inside that program, and then encode it under whatever compression ratio you want for your MP3s.
You could probably use "Audacity" to do that, although I don't know for sure, since I don't use it.
VeeJay records released "Introducing the Beatles" 10 days before.
They were forced to take it off the market as they did so illegally... :-)
That's why I said "at least the first legitimate one..."
Absolutely!
To do that, take the uncompressed data from the CD and get a audio program and reverse the channels inside that program, and then encode it under whatever compression ratio you want for your MP3s.
Thank you! I'll play around and see what I can do.
You could probably use "Audacity" to do that, although I don't know for sure, since I don't use it.
I do have that program from when my daughter gave me an ION iTTUSB10 turntable for turning my extensive album collection into MP3s.
Thanks.
For what it’s worth, “Please Please Me” was recorded onto two track tape, with all voices on one track, and all instruments on the other. This recording method had the effect of improving the mono mixing by delaying the mixing of instruments and voices. However, the stereo will sound odd because all of the voices come from one channel, while all of the instruments come from the other. Reversing speakers or settings will not change anything — there is nothing in common between the two channels to “phase.”
The Beatles did not record on a 4-track machine until the “I Want to Hold Your Hand” single, and no LP tracks until “A Hard Day’s Night.”
Thanks for your kind reply.
I have had similar situations with other songs from the era, songs which totally separated vocals from instruments, and was able to get improved sound when the channels were switched. That's why I figured I could(hopefully) do the same with these Beatles tracks.
Whatever the problem is, the songs are basically unlistenable - - the vocal track is drowned out by the "instrument" track.
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