The Sound of The Beatles on Capitol - WHO Was Responsible?

Why do the Capitol albums sound like they do? We try to answer that question by looking at the history of their early albums and the man behind that special sound.

0:00 - Introduction
1:06 - Introducing Dave Dexter Jnr.
1:37 - EMI's relationship with Capitol
3:40 - Capitol signs The Beatles
4:13 - Meet The Beatles
5:47 - Capitol's sound quality
6:46 - The EMI tapes
7:13 - Tape quality issues
8:28 - Mastering & pressing the discs
9:29 - Sound quality analysis: 'I Want To Hold Your Hand'
10:22 - Sound quality of 'With The Beatles' LP
10:44 - Creating the the sound on the 'Second Album'
11:55 - Stereo sound quality analysis: 'Roll Over Beethoven'
12:24 - 'Duophonic' stereo mixing.
13:26 - Musical quality vs sound quality
13:54 - 'The Capitol Albums Vol. 1' CD box set
14:15 - Are these records still played today?
14:28 - Outro

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