Synthesizer Patel

if you've got FLAC, and you want to keep the same quality, maybe you should convert them to WAV using FlacFrontend - it's free, if you just search google. it's what i did to burn the mono flac album to cd without having to worry about finding plugins for my burning software. the one thing is that WAV are pretty massive files - so it depends on how much space you want to use up on your iPod.

the track is on this album: here it's a really really good album, as is this i was at the concert, and i've got the soundboard - the soundboard was far better than my experience of the concert - we were too far back, and everyone around us kept talking, and getting up. edit: also, another fact (seeing as how it's beatles week) is that john "admiral" halsey played drums in patto - hence uncle albert/admiral halsey by mccartney on the album ram

i'm not entirely bothered about Help! either way really, i'll get around to listening to it properly, but right now it's nice to have all the albums from rubber soul onwards in mono. only beatles for sale is the early album that i can listen to all the way through without skipping tracks. i can see why people might say they prefer the white album in stereo (although, that's personally the one i love in mono), but anyone that thinks revolver or rubber soul aren't best in mono is just impossible for me to understand. i just listened to I'm Looking Through You, and that electric guitar will cut

you've gotta prefer Revolver in Mono, surely?! the one album i've been a little let down by these remasters is Sgt. Pepper - neither the mono nor the stereo seem to stand up to the old scratched vinyl mono version i grew up with as a kid.

yeah, i love that song too, but i'm sure it's in mono on the vinyl Blue Album i've got - shame my record player is buggered up, cos i can't check. i guess that it's a fold down if it is mono then.

I'm downloading the mono box set at the moment, but I'm currently playing Revolver in mono, which I picked up first - and it's absolutely brilliant! The louder i wack it up on my stereo () the better it sounds. That low piano on Good Day Sunshine really has to be in the middle of the speakers like it does in mono for the song to come alive. That pretty much goes for everything else.

does this mean that you are starting to come around to the idea that the stereo mixes are poorly done (or at least poorly done compared to the mono ones)? tell you what, it's interesting that all the online reviews i've read have focused on the mono ones - surely that should give the beatles corp. an idea that people DO WANT TO HEAR THESE, and not just diehard fans.

and i'm not even buying the bloody thing, cos it's too expensive! (my official stance on it is that i'm in favour of the mono mixes, but i'm not in favour of the price of the box set).

But they actually sound like different songs at times. You can hear instruments you'd never have picked up on before etc... I've got the original mono vinyl - and until i hear the mono remasters, i can safely say that these stereo remasters are the best sounding beatles releases by quite a long way (obviously the mono ones will blow these out the water cos they're better mixes, but still . . . )

anyone got any invites to what? i'm not so interested in the stereo box, but i really want to grab the mono one when it leaks.

the panning is still very annoying on some of the songs - and there's still harsh edits, but the actual sound is incredible. can't wait for the mono versions to leak - in flac

the remastered version, and it sounds brilliant! next up is revolver

yeah, she beats the Dresden Bombings by a fair margin (although you helped in that one)....hmmm, my mind has gone blank - i'm sure Britain has got a whole bunch of atrocities i'm missing here - but Stefani probably still tops them

shut up, before i do you in with some seriously killer beatles chords!

yeah, but that doesn't bother us - because we gave him away. thankfully, he's a nobody in britain.

i don't think something like that has to take you anywhere. i mean, children climb trees or swing on swings without any great reason. they don't keep doing it all their life, and they aren't doing it as some kind of work experience - it's simply a bit of fun. otherwise you're starting to go down the route of "kid kills school mates after playing violent games!" headlines.

downfall is a great film. i tend to prefer the slightly more abstract/stylised war films - cross of iron, the big red one, or even kelly's hereos. as for oasis, i think they are the worst thing to come out of britain in the 90s, besides Mad Cow Disease. they make that decade seem very dull.

well ok, it was just a roundabout way of saying "no, i don't think it will". computer games don't make people want to do anything other than play more computer games.

i don't think it will really. it's not like super mario made me want to become a plumber. if anything it will cheapen their music to the next generation, and make them slightly less important. but, if that's how the estates want to play it, then i guess it's up to them.

I'd have much prefered it if they'd made a beatles zelda game - with ringo as zelda, and he can have a magic ring - and the whole thing is set in swinging 60s london. that'd be a great game.

excellent. give it a few months and these box sets will be half the price, and there'll be talk about selling the mono seperately. i think the iTunes thing might not happen until they've fleeced the public for the cds properly - because otherwise they'll be lossing part of their sales to digital downloads. i see it looking like this: initial batch > second run of box sets (cheaper) > iTunes (maybe by christmas) > cds in mono sold seperately (middle of next year)

does it sound any better than this?: http://www.amazon.co...1743310&sr=8-10 i've got that box set, and i'm not sure if i need another one, unless it's a massive improvement. i had once had another woody guthrie cd that was so badly mastered that it sounded like he was playing a casio keyboard - which actually made it interesting, "so this is what woody would have sounded like in the 1980s!"

i didn't see read that until you mentioned it!

i didn't need to search for it, i knew it straight away. it's a great film, very creepy stuff. also the super furry animals reference the series in the song "rings around the world" - tetsuo 2 become me and you, we're drawing rings around the world!