Audio Recording Techniques : Beatles Recording Techniques

CluvVenny Says:

Mar 27, 2011 - What I've heard about the Sgt. Pepper sessions was that they were using 2 four track reel to reel running simultaneously. Obvously they bounced down quite a bit to make room to record more instruments. That album still sounds awesome everytime I play it. I even have the Mono remaster of that album. There are very slight different mixes compared to the stereo version.

polloalforno Says:

Apr 10, 2011 - It's not for the number of tracks, the mics or the effects... The result is great and nobody could do the same through technics

Samshile Says:

May 12, 2011 - Your mislead. The industry was regulated in 1965. They were not allowed to do certain types of micing.Jeff, their new enginer developed close drum micing.Yes some of the technques were introduced prior to their recordings. However, they developed many variations never used before. Read The Beatles Anthology and you will be enlightend to some of the other ideas they developed. Watch Paul's 6 part video where he goe back to Abby Road Studios and shares stories.

Samshile Says:

May 12, 2011 - A New York DJ, Murray the K, helped market them in the USA in the early days. That was the reason they called him the 5th Beatle. I do agree with you, G Martin played a huge part in thier music. 

bloodnokian Says:

May 12, 2011 - Yeh I know who Murray the K is ;)

RocktheStageNYC Says:

May 17, 2011 - - I think he means pioneered in the sense of how they use these technique. Yes they existed before The Beatles but they were used in very minimal ways. The Beatles took those very well known techniques and brought them to the forefront of modern music.

WAVEQUALIZER1 Says:

Jun 3, 2011 - master !!!

floling Says:

Jun 6, 2011 - the sound of his shirt is just annoying...!

soulagent79 Says:

Jun 13, 2011 - Automatic double tracking was invented at Abbey Road in the 1960s!

KyleRichardHudson Says:

Jul 8, 2011 - Say what? They never miked every drum. Most they ever did was stereo drums on The End.

tonyrosam Says:

Jul 21, 2011 - Lennon was a very bright guy. Smarter than Martin by far.

planet10 Says:

Jul 26, 2011 - dude thats a nice 8108 56 channel you have there!!!! we have a 32, the first one built that was commissioned for Capitol Records Mix Suite C

wwwonderful Says:

Aug 2, 2011 - Billy Preston

paranormal33 Says:

Aug 2, 2011 - This guy doesn't seem to know much about the Beatles' recordings or how extremely important those recording techniques were. Bu\t.....oh well.

rjmprod Says:

Oct 11, 2011 - Where does this guy come off giving information about the Beatles recording techniques? He can't even explain ADT correctly or how they bounced tracks. Sounds like he just picked up a short article and said whatever he was able to remember. All the stuff he you tubes is pretty lame. This stuff is for the people that have no real desire to know what goes on in a recording environment, therefore quite worthless information.

cranie4 Says:

Oct 16, 2011 - I was just going to type the same comment. I use ADT all the time (I actually have a plugin that does it very nicely these days). But he has no idea what it actually IS. For those that don't know you take the single vocal track, duplicate it and then delay that second track a few milliseconds. Then hard pan those 2 tracks left and right and you have the doubling effect.

rhyskallen Says:

Oct 27, 2011 - does he use clasp

kingsofcarnage Says:

Oct 30, 2011 - Does anyone know anywhere on the net that gives more detail about Beatles recording techniques? Particularly the drums...Our band has some very basic equipment (people say Martin would've envied todays equipment, but in many ways, we envy what he had!) and its hard getting a decent sound (possible, just difficult). Much of the recording info on the web are about advanced kit, with 70 mics for the snare and 311 for the rest of the kit, along with a 6 million band EQ and a mixer with 900 channels

svennbreng Says:

Dec 12, 2011 - Great info. thanx. Going to try that double modulating vocals now.

bryceHUHwhat Says:

Dec 16, 2011 - This is not the exact way they did it, but if you want a similar effect on the cheap, try a single sm57 mic about 6 feet in front of the bass drum at about head height pointed at the snare. use a vst vintage style compressor, and make sure you really let the drums pump. that should get you close.

kingsofcarnage Says:

Dec 16, 2011 - Did they do that on songs like And Your Bird Can Sing and I've Got A Feeling? The later ones? Or just early on?

bryceHUHwhat Says:

Dec 16, 2011 - They did that for %99 of the songs, the compressor was used probably starting on Rubber Soul or Help. The only song i can think of not done this way was In the end, because in the end had stereo drums.

kingsofcarnage Says:

Dec 17, 2011 - Ok, cheers - will try that out next chance I get :)

LILALPIMPIN Says:

Jan 19, 2012 - "hmmmm, my nails are really nasty today."

23zoid Says:

May 7, 2012 - ADT is automatic you don't sing twice