The Living Rockumentary

But it's more than just the drums on Martha. My plinky guitar lead, your acoustic guitar and your lead vocal are all panned in the same area of the stereo sound (unless I'm going deaf in one ear). Just having a lead vocal not centered in a mix is def. a hallmark of Beatles mixes. Sure, it's more pronounced on their recordings than on your Martha mix but this Martha mix is unlike 99% of contemporary mixing sounds when it comes to panning. You've got the drums combined together, your lead vocal off-center, the guitars in the same field of the stereo sound, the bass on its own- these are all hallmarks of mid-period Beatles mixes and completely against the grain of current mixing trends. Once again, I am right, you are wrong. We both agree it sounds good and we're bickering about how Beatlesy it is or isn't (it is, though). Maybe it's because you're thinking of Let It Be, I'm thinking of Rubber Soul/Revolver era. My argument is not that it's JUST like Beatles mixes but it certainly resembles those mixes more than contemporary panning procedures, therefore it is Beatlesy. It's an argument of percentages now. I say it's 62% more Beatlesier than before but only 44% Beatlesy now, 88% Beatlesy compared to 2002 trends. I think you're closer to 42%-28%-56% respectively, give or take a point here or there. The numbers do not lie, my friend.