Did Anyone do a Sound Check?
1 Stars
Posted
Monday, February 18, 2013
by
Matt S.
I'm not a professional reviewer and I don't generally do reviews, but with this album, I thought I had to.
After hearing all the hype about EMI's Beatles re-issue project, I was excited to "re-fresh" my collection of this band. The few reviews out there were not favourable, but I thought I would still give one album in the re-issue a try.
The vocals on side 1, track 2 are so poorly mixed they are recorded low, sound hollow and have an echo presence as if they are in distant background. Ok, maybe one song, but on Side 1, it was 5 tracks.
The following all sound the same: Side 1, tracks 2, 3, 7, 8, 9; Side 3, track 4 is medium volume; side 4, tracks 1, 2 and 8. Side 4, track 1 was always low, but this is still not good.
I don't care how nice the packaging is, I'm returning the album and not going to chance any others in the collection. I'll being very cautious with any EMI release in the future.
It's a shame what they have done to the music of this classic band.