![]() ![]() But there’s no doubt that the ministrations of Martin fils have exposed elements of the music inevitably obscured in the original mixdown from the four-track tape, and by the perfunctory way the original stereo mix was achieved at a time when only the mono version really mattered.Īs often happens when you listen really closely to the Beatles, the most striking thing is what a great band they were, irrespective of all the trappings. Some of those to whom the record always sounded pretty decent in any circumstances will inevitably harbour reservations about such a project. On the other hand, it sounded fantastic - as it was almost bound to do, given the emotional resonance of the setting. ![]() Last Monday, half a century later, about 100 people gathered in Studio 2 to listen to Giles Martin, son of George and inheritor of the mantle of sonic curator of the Beatles’ legacy, as he talked about remixing Sgt Pepper and then played the 96kHz/24bit result over a rather lavish sound system. But there can’t be a better place in the world to listen to the 50th anniversary edition of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, which was almost entirely recorded there before being sent out into the world on June 1, 1967. It’s a tourist attraction now, of course apparently you can have your wedding there, which is useful for EMI since the demand for big recording studios is no longer what it was. There are scuffs and stains like the interior of a vintage car, it has a patina. Behind the cupboard doors you might even find random things to scrape or shake, as the need arises. If you look up, you’ll see the window high in the wall through which George Martin looked down from the control room on “the boys”, as he always called them. The walls and movable screens are still covered with the sort of perforated acoustic pasteboard once found in record-shop listening booths. ![]() They’ve kept Studio 2 at Abbey Road looking much the way it did in 1967. ![]()
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