Day by Day (The Beatles bootleg)
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| Day by Day | ||
| Compilation album by The Beatles | ||
| Genre | Rock and roll | |
| Label | Yellow Dog | |
Day by Day is a Beatles bootleg series presented by the publisher Yellow Dog that presents the entire (more or less) series of Nagra tape rolls used to record the Let It Be sessions.
Yellow Dog was up to around volume 33-34 when they were busted. This resulted in Purple Chick, a purely online trading bootlegger, to continue the series up to what became Day by Day volume 38.
Each volume contains two discs, each of which has four tracks most of the time. These tracks are 16-minute tape rolls which have not been edited (although it is assumed that, like other Yellow Dog releases, the tapes are noise-reduced and might contain small reverb to spruce up the dry audio).
What Yellow Dog has released are mono Nagra Rolls as recorded by camera A, which was the primary one for the most part. Camera B rolls, which were turned on to fill up gaps when Camera A was changing rolls, are contained unedited on the Unicorn label. Yet recently Purple Chick has released a series entitled A/B Road, which combines both A and B rolls to fill in gaps. A simulated stereo release with the A and B rolls combined, can be found in Yellow Dog's A-Cam B-Cam.
[edit] Frequency Analysis Debate
Some have analysed the frequencies on the later volumes as presented by Purple Chick. The frequencies appear not to have been MP3-sourced, but are still unusual. It was a first believed that the particular model of Nagra tape recorder used during these recording sessions had an upper frequency range of 18,000 hertz, which would've accounted for this irregularity. Subsequent research has proved this to be untrue, as other releases of the same material doesn't have these frequency irregularities. The real source and lineage of these recordings are still open to debate.
