de-duophonic'ed mono mix of Baby You're A Rich Man (made from tape)

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de-duophonic'ed mono mix of Baby You're A Rich Man (made from tape)

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Isolated the right channel of it from the Capitol MMT Ampex reel and tried to "re-introduce": bass at 450Hz; lower mids at 490 and 650; while cutting the reverb artifacts most present around the 850-region.

It would've been an (otherwise) lost cause trying to boost the treble, conversely, in the left; as that would've added too much hiss.

There is still some mechanical compression residue on the vocals (like the way so much of the fake stereo of the '60s always seemed to "squeeze" the lower registers of vocals they'd try to position in the right channel); however, the guttural bassline (the key hook to the feel of the whole track!) AND all the little atmospheric noises in the background of the mono BYARM (the piano fills through the Leslie speaker, the glockenspiel bell, that sound of something being flicked through the air, etc.) remain in place to be discovered.

The 1971-onward stereo "German mix", IMO, doesn't even do justice to the sarcastic idiosyncracies of the song like the mono version; regardless of how "clean" they re-made it.

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