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Early Beatles stereo mixes were made without the band
The group sat in on the mono mixes and left the stereo versions to engineers Until 1968 the Beatles treated the mono mix as the real record and often attended those sessions. Stereo versions were usually finished quickly by Abbey Road engineers, sometimes after the band had gone home, with vocals pushed hard to one speaker. That is why some early stereo mixes sound strange. It sits in Mondo's music collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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Early Beatles stereo mixes were made without the band: the short answers
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- The group sat in on the mono mixes and left the stereo versions to engineers. The figure is taken from Abbey Road Studios, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
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