Yes that's the main reason I did it. There's a few like that where I wasn't entirely happy with the old result. Fixing A Hole and If I Needed Someone were another two.
That might bejust because the Anthology mix is a bit brighter.
Giles has a difficult path to tread, I think. He did do the Rockband mixes a decade ago and they were very faithfull to the original sound. So we know he can do that if he wants. I'm sure the pressure is coming from others, especially marketing people who would be shouting about how the mixes need to be competitive with what is streaming at the moment. So that is how the over-use of limiting and compression is coming about I believe - from higher up the chain. You'll notice that the mixes have gotten incrememntally less squashed with every passing year. 1+ and Pepper had virtually just one volume the whole way through. The White Album was much better and now the Pepper atmos mix is much less compressed than the 2017 version. So - hopefully - whoever is pushing for these things to have the life squashed out of them is getting put back in their box gradually. I'm hoping that given the high levels of compression and limiting used on the original 1966 recordings, there will be little need for any extra compression now.Engonoceras wrote: ↑Sun Aug 14, 2022 2:23 am Actually I don't think the Revolver SDE album mixes will be that awful this time. Weird, confusing and frustrating yes, but not objectively awful (to most). I'm sure the mixes will be bathed in Giles' special blend of tricky-dicky digi-plugery but whatever. Apparently a lot of people like that and a thousand Hoffman Beatards can't be wrong.
One thing that drives me nuts though is the sugary sprinkling of artificial harmonics (once known as Aphex) on all the vocals. I just hate that. It destroys the integrity of the vocals and sounds really anachronistic.
Overall though, I'm confident the new Revolver will be a keeper. In Anthology (the video) we had lovely glimpses of stereo vocals in IOS and stereo horns in GTGYIML. And we have had stereo vocals on some of the other Revolver tracks that have been remixed. So in that department at least it should be a stunning improvement, with more open and spacious harmonies.