Third man vault 559/16/2023 ![]() ![]() In homage to the original US pressing of the album, Elephant mono is pressed on opaque white and opaque red discs.Īdditionally, we've included Jack White's original solo demo of "Hypnotize" in two markedly different mixes here. The goal is to harken back to other similar experiments (like our first-ever Vault package, Icky Thump mono) while shedding light on the nuance and craft contained both in the performance and the mix of this album. We know how near and dear it is to all of the White Stripes fans out there. The idea here isn't to try and COMPLETELY REIMAGINE the Elephant album. Revelations abound, truly gems to be discovered and dissected by die-hards and fairweather alike. ![]() The snippets and snapshots of studio banter before and after takes? You bet we left it in. A long lost lyric edited out of "Girl, You Have No Faith In Medicine"? Faithfully restored here. ![]() An extra four bars at the end of the canonical "Seven Nation Army"? Completely forgotten by all involved until now. Mixed by Jack White and Bill Skibbe at Third Man Studio in Nashville, the work was executed on the same Calrec board used to complete the original stereo mix of Elephant at Toe Rag Studios in London back in 2002.Īs these particular tapes had not been spun in nearly twenty years, little surprises and treasures slowly began to reveal themselves at every turn. The centerpiece of this set is an all new, direct-from-the-original multitrack tapes MONO remix of the entire Elephant album. If ever a singularly magical moment exists in the history of The White Stripes, it is likely the release and ensuing hubbub behind their 2003 album Elephant.Īs explosive initial releases are ever-deserving of further examination and celebration, it should come as no surprise that the 55th installment of Third Man Records Vault subscription series is the twentieth anniversary collection Elephant XX. The work an artist creates on the precipice of their star turn, with attention solidly focused on them.well, those are the moments that become truly magical. More details from Third Man Records pasted below: where there are totally separate, dedicated mono and stereo mixes made. Sometimes people get tricky and fold a stereo mix down to mono, or make a "fake stereo" mix from a mono mix, but those are all fake and not at all what is happening with the new Elephant reissue, Icky Thump or The Beatles, etc. The Blue Notes recordings were likely done on 2 track tape, so both tracks were mixed C on the mono mix and panned on the stereo mix. On the stereo mix, each of those 16 track was panned somewhere within the stereo field (L-C-R) whereas on the mono mix, all 16 tracks are panned to the centre. Icky Thump was recorded on 16 track tape. The mono and the stereo mixes are separate mixes, there was nothing "going at the same time." stereo mixes, which have hundreds of posts here). Click to expand.There was nothing different about Icky Thump or the Blue Note recordings in the 50s except that they received dedicated mono mixes that were done separately than the stereo mix (same goes for the Beatles mono vs. ![]()
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