The Beatles - Love Me Do [Fake Stereo Mix Exp.] [HD]

Please watch in 720p mode for the optimal sound quality !

Much requested song to be heard in stereo.
I even saw some experiments with the mixing from the frequencies of this song.

Remixed and remastered from the original mono mix.
No compression, or limiting applied at this one at all !

"Love Me Do" is an early Lennon/McCartney song, principally written by Paul McCartney in 1958--1959 while playing truant from school aged 16. John Lennon wrote the middle eight. The song was The Beatles' first single, backed by "P.S. I Love You" and released on 5 October 1962. When the single was originally released in the United Kingdom, it peaked at number seventeen; in 1982 it was re-issued and reached number four. In the United States the single was a number one hit in 1964.

No original master tapes of the 4 September version of "Love Me Do" are known to exist. Standard procedure at Abbey Road Studios at the time was to erase the original two-track session tape for singles once they had been "mixed down" to the (usually monaural) master tape used to press records. This was the fate of two Beatles singles (four songs): "Love Me Do", "P.S. I Love You", "She Loves You", and "I'll Get You". However, at some point the mixdown master tape for this song was also lost, and apparently no backup copies had been made. Thus, for many years the only extant recorded copies were the red label Parlophone 45 rpm vinyl records pressed in 1962. This version was also issued in Canada as Capitol 72076.

By the time the tapes had disappeared, the song's 11 September 1962 remake featuring Andy White had been released. EMI would not have been too concerned about the loss of the 4 September take, therefore, as it was now considered obsolete, and they may not have anticipated ever having any use for it again anyway.

Around 1980, a reasonably clean, original 45 from EMI's archives was used as the "best available source" for the track's inclusion on the Capitol compilation LP Rarities. A few years later, a new master tape was struck, this time using another, better-sounding 45 supplied by a record collector, and this has served as the official EMI master tape for the original "Love Me Do" ever since.

[WCPRAM]

Never heard this version in stereo before. It was only released in mono, but this version was also in Duophonic stereo which was horrible. The mono version was on the LP "Introducing the Beatles" on the Vee-Jay label back in 1963.

[TheMusicalSteve]

@capitolemiproducer That's true. That Exp. stands for experiment in the titles, so please don't call my videos to be a forgery, will you ? Geez...

[TheMusicalSteve]

@HarveyBacktheBeatles Well, it's a scale-up from mono mix. It's a combination of various filtering and sound processing effects, a formula more or less. Obviously, there's no true stereo mix of Love Me Do, since the master tape of it was lost (even the 2009 box set contains only a mono mix of this song).

that is real music, the best band ever

[TheDustpile]

I'm glad you actually know what you're talking about after all - you might stop talking down to people.

[horowizard]

Well, the point was that whether or not the program suffered from extreme compression, it would not have made any difference as far as the track extracting program is concerned. It analyzes the type of waveform and separates it.

[TheDustpile]

Thanks for clearing that up and it does sound a miraculous piece of software. I wasn't denying anything though and just wondered that the effects of heavy compression may limit the chances of a decent extraction.

And if anyone knows, what are the results of an A-B test when an extracted musical part is compared to the pre-mix solo on the multitrack?

[horowizard]

@capitolemiproducer There is a new process where a computer will analyze a mono program and create separate tracks. It is time consuming, very expensive and pretty much out of reach for the average person, but the technology now exists.

[TheDustpile]

I wouldn't think a result would sound miraculous unless final stereo separation would be slight. But then, that's all you would need.

Having read about it (I think it was used a little on the Beatle video game), I suspect it will never do what some people expect - somehow pluck complete, full-detailed individual parts from old and overly-compressed mono masters.

[TheMusicalSteve]

Actually, I tried to. Check out my 'Second Album' video, it's there. Thank you for watching!

[horowizard]

Alright, so you're talking about audio compression. Jesus Christ, every part-timer that comes along suddenly acts as if they discovered compression. Big deal. You want to get technical? So they add compression to the input signals going to tape. Plus there is compression from tape saturation. Then they are compressing the signals from the tape during the mixdown. Then there is limiting added for when they are cutting the master. Then more limiting for the transmitter in radio broadcast.

[TehAnthrax]

im surprised you havent done she loves you, you should.

[TheMusicalSteve]

I haven't read the whole discussion here but I have to say that don't have high expectations out of instrument filtering. I've heard some of the Rock Band tracks that were separated this way and I have to say, it sounds terrible and if you don't put it together into a mono with the other tracks, you can immediately say that there is something very wrong with the mix. Only my two cents about this new invention.

[capitolemiproducer]

mono out of phase that's all. There are 5 Beatle tunes that will never be released in stereo unless Doc and Marty Mcfly go back in time and recover the 2 track master, And even them it will be in Bi-sonic stereo sound. Forgery

[horowizard]

Compression has nothing to do with it. It is unlikely that an old recording had compression in the first place unless it was done afterwards as some dolt's idea of modernizing the sound. If it were the case however, you would get the sound of separate instruments sounding like they would compressed individually. Do you even know what compression is? Are we talking about data compression or audio limiting?

[horowizard]

Don't be a jerk and presume you are teaching anybody anything. I know well the practice and practicality of compression and peak limiting as used for managing audio signals and for special effect. I do it every day for my livelihood. It's not just Beatle records and old records either. I don't know if you've noticed that every new record that comes out is leveled out and squashed to death. Does it sound better? It sure sounds louder..

[TheDustpile]

You sound like you don't know what it is. Compression isn't 'some dolt's idea of modernising the sound' but the way it is made to sound louder by reducing the dynamic range, making louder parts quiet and vice-versa. All Beatle records used compression, plus another form of compression called limiting, where only the louder parts are reduced in volume.

Old records were compressed heavily for a better listen on the radio.

There you are. You learn something new all the time.