Revolver Rain

oBSoLete CD obs031

The tracks:

1. Taxman, vocals only \ 2. And Your Bird Can Sing, no lead guitars \ 3. Rain, no vocals \ 4. Paperback Writer, vocals only \ 5. Got To Get You Into My Life, vocals/center only \ 6. Tomorrow Never Knows, vocal/drums only \ 7. For No One, vocals only \ 8.Good Day Sunshine, vocals only \ 9.She Said She Said, vocals only \ 10. And Your Bird Can Sing, Anthology backing vocals only \ 11. Taxman, stereo oops \ 12. Eleanor Rigby, stereo oops \ 13. Love You To, stereo oops \ 14. Yellow Submarine, YSS stereo oops \ 15. She Said She Said, stereo oops \ 16. Good Day Sunshine, stereo oops \ 17. For No One, stereo oops \ 18. Got To Get You Into My Life, stereo oops \ 19. Tomorrow Never Knows, stereo oops \ 20. Paperback Writer, stereo oops \ 21. Rain, stereo oops \ 22. And Your Bird Can Sing, Anth stereo oops \ 23. Tomorrow Never Knows, karaoke/wide stereo \ 24. And Your Bird Can Sing, Anth stereo oops remix with centered vocals \ 25. Tomorrow Never Knows, Anth remix with centered vocals \ 26. Love You To, YSS wide stereo remix with more centered vocals

The notes:

1-10. I used the Nero wide stereo filter three times (wasting a couple of cdrs), normalizing in between, then used the wide stereo filter a fourth time and just for the heck of it tried adding the karaoke filter. To my surprise as I increased the karaoke effect, this reduced and finally eliminated the side channels (other than the swirly aftereffects). To reduce this effect somewhat I used the channel converter on Sound Forge 5 to move both tracks to the center. On track 2, I used the karaoke filter with a different combination of wide stereo filtering, possibly only done once at the same time (I don't remember), which resulted in the lead guitars being removed.

11-22. These were done with the karaoke filter first, then afterwards I added the wide stereo filter, which actually unwidens the stereo and brings the side channels closer to the center and makes them louder, thus reducing the overall volume of the mess in the middle without having to use any EQing.

23. I don't remember where this came from. Possibly the wide stereo filter and karaoke used together once as in track 2. This one was so wierd-good I decided to leave it in.

24-26. Three vocal-centering attempts with mixed results.