The Mamas & The Papas mono albums

[Krussell2021]

Hello

I'm looking for good rips of all their mono albums. Please can anybody help.

Wonder if the mono masters still exist.

Thanks.

Kevin

[zaval80]

I've Googled it up and at least the first album tape exists in mono. There are mono CDs by Sundazed but that company has dubious reputation regarding such things.

[Bazilnerk]

The original 1st Gen master tapes don;t exist and were thrown by ABC in the 1970's.

A mono copy (2nd gen) for the first album was found in an overseas archive (There may have been other albums too but I don't remember those being reported). All the mono single masters are pretty much gone, hence all CD versions of those are from needle drops

[Tex]

The wide stereo mixes would benefit greatly from spectral demixing.

[Lord Reith]

The wide stereo mixes would benefit greatly from spectral demixing.

I heard California Dreaming the other day and the stereo was terrible! It wasn't just The Beatles who did ping pong mixes, it was everybody, even the Americans with their wizzbang 8 tracks.

[Rickenbacker325]

The wide stereo mixes would benefit greatly from spectral demixing.

I heard California Dreaming the other day and the stereo was terrible! It wasn't just The Beatles who did ping pong mixes, it was everybody, even the Americans with their wizzbang 8 tracks.

Seek out the Barry McGuire version….uses the same backing track…its hard panned but definitely sounds better and it has an unused background vocal part from the Mamas & the Papas

[Rickenbacker325]

The original 1st Gen master tapes don;t exist and were thrown by ABC in the 1970's.

A mono copy (2nd gen) for the first album was found in an overseas archive (There may have been other albums too but I don't remember those being reported). All the mono single masters are pretty much gone, hence all CD versions of those are from needle drops

I believe the same is true for Steppenwolf…ABC/Dunhill were certainly not too bright in those days

[Bazilnerk]

What i think is worse than throwing the mono was getting rid of the multi's Yes they'd have probably gone up in smoke in the Universal fire anyway, but there is a chance someone would have gone back and remixed before then. Imagine what you could do with the stage tapes. Oh well!

[hallucalation]

Don't forget that a lot of stuff had also burned out in Universal fire around 2008. The damage was horrifying. Masters, sessions tapes, documents for many artists.

[Krussell2021]

Am I right in thinking that Real Gone for their Singles compilation scoured the world for mono masters and found them all?