Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [VINYL]

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Then RCA invested in a new mastering room – they had their own record plant, and were outsourcing their cuts and decided to install their own facility. So for five years I was cutting at CBS, with all kinds of fantastic music – ELP, Eagles, the Doobies, product from Europe, from Polydor, Bob Dylan, and all the Columbia classics. At the time, they had Ampex tape machines, Neumann lathes and Westrex cutters – one was a valve room, and the other was a transistor room. Pepper was a worldwide critical and commercial success, spending a total of 27 weeks at the top of the UK Album Chart. Moss versions, the original Holland pressing, the Mobile Fidelity standard issue and UHQR, and the Japanese, UK and Australian red vinyl editions.

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DB - I made a copy, put it on another tape machine, and when I was watching where the cutter heard was going, and was able to hit “go” on the other tape machine to make it play in the right spot – and it just worked. Then one day, a producer wanted to be present when the record was cut, and they told Richard they wanted to make adjustments.Apart from Richard Harvey at CBS, who taught me the ground rules - and did a good job of it - I never actually had a formal education in mastering, as there were no courses in those days. DB - In the end, RCA decided to close the factory and I was sent to EMI, as I was told they might have a position for me. So they bought the lathe, a Neumann console and a Telefunken tape machine, which was the best in the country at the time, and they advertised the position in the newspaper. In 2005, the album was placed at number one on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".

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Pepper’s… pressings over the years – the list includes the current re-masters (stereo and mono), the original UK yellow/black/silver Parlophone (stereo and mono), the UK “one box” and the “two box” Harry T. You were not allowed to change the sound at the time, but were told to make it as loud and clean as possible on the lacquer master. I had albums before that – but this one came along, and it was a combination of everything I had been listening to.To avoid exposing themselves too unnecessary criticism, they avoided to include some historical figures such as Jesus and Hitler, both requested by John Lennon. Since this was 1983 and mastering technology had improved since the late 1960’s, the sonic result was said to be spectacular. Not just the engineers, but also the technicians that would come in every day and maintain the equipment, making sure it was absolutely top notch, and that everything was working correctly. Number 3 Abbey Road was built in 1830 as a lavish private residence, with nine bedrooms, servants' quarters and a wine cellar. One day, a component salesman I knew stopped by and said “I was talking to a guy who is looking for someone to help in the mastering department of their record plant – would you find that interesting?

Pepper band, were dressed in custom-made military-style outfits made of satin dyed inday-glocolours. I worked for the Sydney Water Board in their electronic section as a cadet design engineer, looking after two-way radios and telemetry systems. When they built the Australian EMI studio in Sydney, they based their studio operation on the Abbey Road system. That was also included on the tape, so I was able to match up the lock groove effect as per the original, so I was quite pleased with that! He adjusted the threshold every time they sang the chorus, and momentarily adjusted an EQ on certain words as it was coming straight off the ¼” tape.They had also recently spent millions of dollars to upgrade their facility and create a mirror of Abbey Road Studios, all the way down to the TG mixing board, staff assignments and maintenance schedules. As a result,, he eventually came to master what many consider the “holy grail” of audiophile Beatles records: the “Audio-5 Sgt. And they were using 4 channels of a Studer tape machine, and bouncing it across to achieve the mixes - this is a difficult process. TheGrammy Award-winning album packaging was designed by Peter BlakeandJann Haworth, his wife and artistic partner, and photographed byMichael Cooper. They had spent two to three weeks mixing it for mono, and just as they were sending it off, someone came running down from the office and said ‘by the way, we need a stereo mix.

I didn’t know it, but I’d built a reputation - people were listening, saying “Wow, that sounds good. Don’t know if they did it originally that way - if that was how they planned it, or a pot-luck thing - but it worked. I have come to realize that, from a sound quality perspective, this may be the most valuable and best sounding of them all.My father was an American advertising executive assigned to Japan Air Lines, and had been transferred to Yokohama. In stereo, it’s moving around a bit, which makes it interesting in one respect – but the mono mix is a different experience.