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

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And my mother was a bit of a bohemian - born in Paris during the 1920’s, her parents were members of the Lost Generation. In stereo, it’s moving around a bit, which makes it interesting in one respect – but the mono mix is a different experience. AnalogPlanet reader Bill Wright interviews Australian mastering engineer Don Bartley, who cut lacquers back in 1983 for what many consider to be the best sounding and certainly the rarest pressing of Sgt. 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. DB - I really enjoyed working with clients, because I learned a lot from them - just listening to them talk about how they went about making the record, and what they wanted to hear as the end result.

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So one of the engineers sat down in front of the Neumann rack and adjusted the acceleration limiter. I have come to realize that, from a sound quality perspective, this may be the most valuable and best sounding of them all. 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.

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I’d get in trouble as I didn’t produce any sides, but I was spending time working directly with clients. 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. In 2005, the album was placed at number one on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". DB - My first job was a Van Morrison best of compilation, and we had to put the master together as well as cut the master lacquers. And when I worked at EMI in Australia, there was an engineer there who had worked at Abbey Road at that time, named Richard Lush – I think he was the original assistant engineer on Sgt.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. We didn’t have much equipment around to do that, but I ended up adjusting the EQ on the tape machine, as well as using a graphic equalizer - that’s how the album was released, and I won my first client.