The Beatles - Revolver (Stereo Mixes)
JVC Japan 180g "SuperVinyl" / MFSL 1-107
Disc 7 of 14-disc Mobile Fidelity "Beatles Collection" box set
Half-Speed Mastered by Stan Ricker @ MFSL, Los Angeles
Vinyl rip in 24-bit/96kHz | FLAC | no cue or log (vinyl) | Artwork
~ 762 MB | RS | Genre: Rock & Roll | 1966
Revolver is the seventh album by The Beatles, released on 5 August 1966. Many of the tracks on Revolver are marked by an electric guitar-rock sound, in contrast with their previous, folk rock inspired Rubber Soul. It reached #1 on both the UK chart and U.S. chart and stayed at the top spot for seven weeks and six weeks, respectively. It was released before the Beatles' last tour in August 1966, but they did not perform songs from the album live. Their reasoning for this was that many of the tracks on the album, for example "Tomorrow Never Knows", were too complex to perform with live instruments
A key production technique used for the first time on this album was automatic double tracking (ADT), invented by EMI engineer Ken Townsend on 6 April 1966. This technique used two linked tape recorders to automatically create a doubled vocal track. The standard method was to double the vocal by singing the same piece twice onto a multitrack tape, a task Lennon particularly disliked. The Beatles were reportedly delighted with the invention, and used it extensively on Revolver. ADT quickly became a standard pop production technique, and led to related developments, including the artificial chorus effect.
A key production technique used for the first time on this album was automatic double tracking (ADT), invented by EMI engineer Ken Townsend on 6 April 1966. This technique used two linked tape recorders to automatically create a doubled vocal track. The standard method was to double the vocal by singing the same piece twice onto a multitrack tape, a task Lennon particularly disliked. The Beatles were reportedly delighted with the invention, and used it extensively on Revolver. ADT quickly became a standard pop production technique, and led to related developments, including the artificial chorus effect.
This is the first LP from the MFSL Beatles Collection that used the same master tape as the official EMI CD releases of 1987.
The 1987 EMI CD releases of the earlier albums used either the original mono mix or a 1987 digital stereo remix.
1. Taxman
2. Eleanor Rigby
3. I'm Only Sleeping
4. Love You To
5. Here, There and Everywhere
6. Yellow Submarine
7. She Said, She Said
8. Good Day Sunshine
9. And Your Bird Can Sing
10. For No One
11. Doctor Robert
12. I Want to Tell You
13. Got to Get You into My Life
14. Tomorrow Never Knows
2. Eleanor Rigby
3. I'm Only Sleeping
4. Love You To
5. Here, There and Everywhere
6. Yellow Submarine
7. She Said, She Said
8. Good Day Sunshine
9. And Your Bird Can Sing
10. For No One
11. Doctor Robert
12. I Want to Tell You
13. Got to Get You into My Life
14. Tomorrow Never Knows
Recorded 6 April – 21 June 1966
Original EMI Release 5 August 1966
Half-speed mastered with the Ortofon Cutting System
from the original EMI stereo master tapes, released September 1982
Vinyl Pressed in Japan by JVC using Super High Definition Vinyl
All LP's from this Beatles collection were ripped from the most absolute mint vinyl, from my own personal collection.
Additional MOFI Beatles set titles will be posted over time, in original release order.
Ripping Equipment:
Technics SL-1200MK2 Turntable
Shure V-15 Type VxMR Cartridge
Teac Solid State Receiver Preamp
MacBook Pro built-in audio for ADC capture
Monster Cable interconnects
Bias Peak LE 6 recording software
TT > Shure V15> Mac Pro Dual Xeon> Peak LE @ 24/96 > manual click removal (almost none needed)
analyze (no clipping, no DC Bias offset) > Click Repair 3.01 - 10 Rev X2 > split into individual Tracks > FLAC encoded XLD 20090320
No silence been removed, please burn gapless to match original tracklayout.
I have made a new rip of Revolver using my upgraded audio equipment.
Please download this new version for maximum fidelity
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Password: rsfoto
Future Postings of this collection
and other great music will be published under
my new nickname of
Dr. Robert
and other great music will be published under
my new nickname of
Dr. Robert
Links checked and updated December 2009
If dead links found please send a Private Message to Dr. Robert
Enjoy!!!
Many many thanks......(((~_~)))
Why is it we can come to AvaxHome and get for FREE something that we can NOT even BUY. Whether is 24/96 rips or lossless CD rips. I come here to get lossless HQ sound and use it with iTunes connected to my home stereo on great sounding speakers. Little plastic discs (DVD-A & SACD) that I can not copy to iTunes is not what I want. So 24/96 vinyl rips is what I choose.
The only plus to the EMI remasters is that the catalog will be pretty complete. If you want every mono or every stereo mix you can now have that. It only took 25 years for EMI to get to it.
own The MFSL Beatles Collection before or heard them like this, I am so bless to be getting these downloads. Thank you for all
your hard work putting them together.
I have a pair of critical B&W 801s and they don't lie. I know it's hard work, and appreciate what you're doing, and this is only one listener's opinion. Maybe it sounds decent on an ipod or cheap stereo, but not on a bonafide audio system.
And these recordings pass the test on those systems with flying colors IMHO. But we all have different ears and there is no right answer.
Sorry, but Klipsch speakers have never ever been considered to be "accurate" speakers in any wild stretch of the term. Their appeal is a patented "in-your-face" honkiness that has thrilled the tone deaf show-fi crowd for ages. They play LOUD and accentuate the midrange to the detriment of every other aspect of the frequency range. It sounds as if you've assembled a super-duper car audio system like the ones that rattle someone's ears and shake the earth if you're unlucky to be idling next to them at a stop light. You're correct in saying we all have different ears, but the answer isn't all that difficult with the right equipment.
Hey folks, what you have here are only my respectable sounding rips, of what will probably remain as the finest vinyl release of the Beatles stereo catalog to every be produced. What MFSL did in the 80's is hard to find in even today's vinyl reissues. EMI will never release a proper modern vinyl set nor will allow any boutique shop to do it again.
My rips were produced with the finest equipment a 25 year old kid could afford in 1982. Other priorities came along (and CD's) which stopped any further upgrades of my vinyl playback equipment. It is only now a year later after these rips were made, after the other Avax posters shared their vinyl, played back though the finest audio gear money can buy, that I finally experienced what quality mastered vinyl can provide.
I am proud and thrilled that for most listeners, these rips, produced with modest, but respectable early 80's vintage gear, seem to thrill 98% of AvaxHome readers. I did not attempt to post the final definitive capture of this fine Beatles collection and will never be in the position to to do so.
Dr Ebbetts' fine work is degraded by the limits of the 16 bit @ 44.1 kHz CD medium. Mine were limited by lack of funds, time and ignorance last June 2008. These rips I re-made (at 24/96) at the last minute after I already committed to sell this box. At the time I thought all I would ever really need to play The Beatles was my EMI and Dr. E's CD's. Now I am glad I made the time for these rips.
So everyone, please take my posts for what these rips are. Very good sounding HQ rips, by a good photographer, who always dreamed of becoming a great audio engineer. But life's choices usually leads to one to other roads.
This Doctor Robert will strive to provide all with wonderful rips that will send ours ears on marvelous trips.
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is coming later today.
A thousand holes of thanks!
@ jmlab - I set up a HotFile account. As soon as I get home on Tuesday (to my fast connection) I'll add links to HotFile.
RapidShare seems to be by far everyone's primary host.
Are there any other hosts you folks prefer as a number two choice for me to use?
THANKS a lot for allowing us to hear this...
I must get a better set of speakers to propperly enjoy this.
By the way, are those new Thonet and Vander any good?
Here is the latest updates to completing this collection.
My mint (I hope) copies of "The Beatles" and "Abbey Road" should be arriving any day now. "Let It Be" is sailing from the east cost on the "Yellow Submarine" scheduled to arrive early next week.
I have set a target date of 9.9.2009. Hmm, why does that date ring a bell. Well I can't remember now. Let me continue. I also will be getting a proper preamp, the same that Kel bazar uses, actually the latest upgraded model. So with that I hope to achieve some of that elusive "warm' vinyl sound.
Keep tuned to this Sgt Pepper page for the lastest news.
UPDATE: Yellow Submarine hit an underwater mountain and it has sunk. The last message said "Let It Be" will be resurrected by Kel bazar when he has time.
Love Your work Doc.
your beatles uploads came from cds and was upsampled to 24/96, have digital noise in the end of "Good Day Sunshine".
cartridges always let some high(sometimes until 45Khz) or very low noises (like humble)in the background.
is easy to see WHEN the source came from LPs.
more prooves: yours artworks came with pictures from cds where you can see "COMPACT DISC DIGITAL AUDIO".
who download look the picture "mfsl-1-107de-inner".
you can open the tracks in any wave editor and see that in the beginning and in the final of the musics have complete silence and it don't happens when came from LPS.
the same happens with the others albums posted like Beatles For Sale.
don't need to tell that the sound of this upload here is HORRIBLE!!!!!
remove your doubts: download 1 or all uploads from AKSMAN or MOUKLDER in 24b/96K and check the waveforms, you will get honests works with extreme quality.
i'm sorry, i was waiting great quality and one honest upload.
My friend, you are not a very good audio detective. There is only one true fact that you discovered that I sourced from CD. It is the artwork I borrowed to supplement the art of the box that I did not photograph. I made the rips in TRUE 24-bit audio @ 96kHZ solely for MY OWN USE last year prior to selling the box on eBay. Any photos I took at the time were to aid in the sale on eBay. Making photos of LP covers was not necessary for an eBay listing. I was not aware of AvaxHome or the vinyl ripping standards of Mr. Aksman and others 14 months ago.
ALL AUDIO WAS RECORDED from the ACTUAL MFSL VINYLS IN MY COLLECTION AT THE TIME of ripping, as I have listed. As to the absolute absence of noise and complete silence before and after each track, that is HOW I EDIT MY TRACKS. This is how I LIKE TO HEAR MY MUSIC RIPS.
I will split the raw rips into individual tracks. then find the beginning of each song and delete the opening quarter second lead-in of vinyl noise at the beginning. After that I will locate the end of the natural fade out and apply my own natural sounding digital fade out and fill the remaining in-between track groove noise with silence. I do the same post-editing of the music of Aksman and others who only splits the tracks. There is at least one other Avax vinyl ripper who edits and fade out his tracks in a similar fashion. I am just very tight and exacting with my edits.
The way I edit my rips is consistent with the CD rips from Dr. Ebbetts and Mirror Spock. I developed MY STYLE of editing music BEFORE ever seeing a Dr. Ebbetts' CD. In fact I developed my style of fading out vinyl rips 25 years ago when I first made cassettes and later Beta HiFi dubs. My vinyls were rarely played other than to make new cassettes, reel to reel and HiFi video dubs. I have been making the finest audio vinyl dubs since a teenager in the 70's.
You may think my rips are "HORRIBLE". But I can assure you sir that I am NO FRAUD.
The IS one difference between Sgt Pepper and earlier LP releases. Sgt Pepper does not have six seconds of silence between tracks to edit out. So if one listens very carefully, it is possible to hear actual vinyl noise between the songs.
Oh and one more thing. If you still truly think these rips look and sound like CD's up-sampled, don't you suppose I would have compiled a more impressive list of "Ripping Equipment".
these vinyl rips sound incredible, and there is so much happening above the 22 khz range that it makes me wonder if i'll ever listen to a beatles cd ever again (even with the approaching remasters).
my hat goes off to you. although i am very embarrassed at some of the people you have had to engage with.
thanks for all your hard work, i can't wait to down the rest of them.
i did however encounter one problem with please please me. after downloading all four .rar files, when trying to extract them a crc error comes up and the only tracks extracted are 1-8 and the last track (twist and shout). can these rars become corrupted in the download process?
cheers my friend.
I have just re-purchased another Beatles box. With the hardware upgrades I just made, with a new tube preamp and cartridge, I hope to achieve a much improved sound. Perhaps I will make a new complete sets of HQ rips in the coming weeks. At a minimum I will complete this initial project with Let It Be and Yellow Submarine as soon as I can.
Yes, CRC errors usually indicate corruption occurring with the rar. Download part 3 again then try the extraction again. Take a look at the size of the downloaded parts. Parts 1-3 should all be the same size, about 200 MB. Part 4 is 109 MB.
Another thing, You may need to download all four segments again as PPM was one of the posts that Rapid Share deleted a few days ago for abuse. Check the names of your downloaded PPM RAR's. They all should be called "mofi_101.part1.rar", etc. If your segments are named differently then you need to download all four parts.
Download it all from Rapid share. The links for File Factory were only uploaded a few days ago. It is possible one of the File Factory rars was corrupted during uploading. I am out of town on an extremely slow internet connection and unable to test. Over 600 people downloaded PPM with the old Rapid Share RAR's alone when RS was the only host available.
yes, it seems that rar number 3 is too small, so i will download that one again. i also need to get me a premium rapid share account. LoL
keep up the great work. :D
ps - i also look forward to abbey road. i have a rip of the Japanese Toshiba Pro-Use LP and it sounds real nice (pbthal) but alas it is only 16 bit/44.1 (not knocking it or anything, it really does sound great but i'll take the extra oomph of those missing bits anyday.)
hi Dr. Robert :-)
i'm sure that you read my answers from the PM that you send for me.
now i'm sure that your upload came from LP!!!!!!!! :-)
PLEASE forgive my mistake. if i could edit my old post i will change everything.
have frequences until 46900Khz BUT don't sounds good for unknow reasons. :-( the sound is a little rispid(trebles)
is too much request that you rip again but no problems.
remember that have a little issue in the end of "Godd Day Sunshine" BUT is not in the music, is in the silent part.
cheers Robert! :-)
cheers.
Thank you for your other six posts !
http://rapidshare.com/files/275305974/03092009_107.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/275315752/03092009_107.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/275323875/03092009_107.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/275328499/03092009_107.part4.rar
On a side note, There is a program called "TT DR Offline Meter 1.4" which tests the dynamic range of 16/44 WAV files and assigns them a value. I happened to choose the track "Let It Be" for comparison. Even when converted to 16/44, Dr. Roberts/rsfoto's conversion stood up against Dr. Ebbetts 2008 MSFL [same value - 11] and was better than both
Ebbetts' 2008 Blue Box version [10] and the new Remaster [9]. I didn't have a copy of the 1987 EMI release handy, but we all know that one would come out even lower.
Thank you very much Dr. Robert.
@RolloTomasi - The new links should include the "fixed Good Day Sunshine". If you don't hear a click at the fade out then you have the fixed file.
я не только приветствовать но еще и слушать в этом чудесном разрешении 24\96 как хорошо что Вы есть с радостью жду Ваших дальнейших публикаций