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thanks for your responses as usual Pat.
I listened to "Elenore" and can't find a difference bewteen the stereo and mono versions. What makes them LP vs. 45 version (other than the mix)?
Also on "You Showed Me", I believe this warrants versioning, as the stereo (from Rhino Greatest Hits, assuming this is the stero LP version) is longer and has drums before the :11 second mark. The mono (from Sunshine Days Pop Classics of the '60s Volume 1, assuming that's the 45) is shorter and does not have the drums (or it's so buried I can't hear it).
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From my notes, Elenore is classified as a 45 version due to the difference in reverb between the 45 and LP.
Now for the song "You Showed Me", I don't hear drums prior to :11 on the stereo version but I do hear a hi hat prior to :11 on the stereo versions. When I fold the stereo down to a mono signal I lose the hi hat completely in the resulting mix so I will toss this one out to other chat board members as to what they think about this issue.
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That's very interesting, Pat. Here's what I can share about why this phenomenon happens...
Imagine you have two identical, mono wave sound files. On one of the sound files, you invert the waveform. In other words, since the wave has an axis that it continually crosses back and forth over, you can "flip it vertically" over the axis (so that anything on top of the axis is now on the bottom). What happens when you sum the two wave sound files together (one inverted and one not) is that they cancel each other out.
Of course, I'm talking in terms of how we view it on a computer screen, but the same thing happens when you reverse the negative and positive wires of an audio cable. If you have the exact same audio going throuh two channels, except that one is hooked up in reverse, and then you sum the audio together (in other words, mono it), the result is that they cancel each other.
In the case of this song, the only logical conclusion I can come up with is that the hi-hat, which was in both channels, somehow got inverted in one channel. (Perhaps the sound engineer had the positive and negative wires reversed in one channel when mastering the hi-hat.) Therefore, when you fold down the two channels, they cancel each other out.
I'm no sound engineer, so this may not be the case, but it's at least what I do know about why sounds can mysteriously disappear when stereo is folded down to mono.
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You Showed Me was not mixed well in stereo. I think all the instruments are there on both versions, it's just that the mono mix sounds significantly better sonically. Has more punch. Probably doesn't deserve a "single version" mention. Elenore does because of the gobs of reverb added to the single.
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I had a chance to listen to both the original White Whale 45 copy of "Happy Together" and the version that shows up on CD in mono on Varese's Best Of compilation. While I cannot remember which one is the faster of the two, there is a significant pitch difference between the 45 and CD versions, even though it's the same mix. There is currently no notation in the database regarding this CD, but a pitch comment should probably be added.
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Aaron, my commercial 45 for "Happy Together" has a listed time of (2:50), but an actual time of (2:56).
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On Happy Together I've noticed at on the mono hits lp that there is very little reverb on the song, at all, until the couple of piano notes after "invest a dime". Those piano notes are almost buried in reverb. So that's significantly different than the stereo mixes. I don't have the original 45 though to hear if that matches with the mono LP version.
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Is this a song that deserves a "45 version" and "LP version" designation because of reverb? Given Jim's information, it would appear that the 45 runs slower than the mono version on Varese.
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Has anybody else bought the most recent Turtles CD release, All The
Singles (FloEdCo/Manifesto MFO 48040)? It sounds great, but the only
Turtles 45 I have to compare is "She'd Rather Be With Me", but it sounds the
same, with the shorter 2:08 time. I'd be interested to see how the other
pertinent singles match up.
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jimct wrote:
Aaron, my commercial 45 for "Happy
Together" has a listed time of (2:50), but an actual time
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On my copy of Varese Vintage's "Then:Totally Oldies 4",
the stereo "Happy Together" runs an actual time of 2:52.
On the new mono "All The Singles", it runs and actual
time of 2:54.
Just thought i'd throw that out there.
Edited by The Hits Man on 28 August 2016 at 5:18pm
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You mean 2:54?
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Yes. Sorry.
I'll correct that error.
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I have two different stock copies of It Ain't Me Babe
on White Whale (one listed as WW 222, the other just as
222). Both have a listed time of 2:10.
WW 222 is a styrene pressing pressed at Columbia's
Terre Haute, Indiana (CTH) pressing plant. It runs
2:11.
The other is a vinyl pressing with a monarch stamp and
delta number 57574 in the deadwax. This pressing runs
slightly slower at 2:13. Putting the two side by side
digitally, they run out of sync almost immediately.
They both fade at the same spot in the song, so the
time difference is only the pitch, with the vinyl
pressing running slightly slower.
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My promotional copy of Happy Together, White Whale WW
244, is a Monarch pressing, double A side copy, with
delta 64971 in the deadwax. It lists the time as 2:50
but runs 2:54. I do not have a CTH pressing to compare
it against.
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There is more than one stereo mix of "Happy Together".
The original LP, a remix made in the 80s, and an
alternate remix that snuck out (perhaps by accident) on a
recent Manifesto Records vinyl reissue of the Happy
Together album.
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