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Author: bbwax on February 21 2007 Viewed 2543 times. 7 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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beatles nerds, listen up.
here's a nice review of a book on beatles recording methods. sounds like they go really in depth. interviewing the actual engineers who worked in the studios, photos of recording sessions, pages devoted to a song and it's recording session and equipment used, etc. i'm sure a lot of you studio scientists would like to try some of these techniques.
from the article...
"Today, effects like delay are easily achieved with off-the-shelf equipment costing a few hundred dollars at most. At the legendary Abbey Road studio, where many of these effects were pioneered, armies of technicians used enormous rooms to literally bounce the sound off walls.
Such analog feats make for a fascinating and timely tale in the hands of Kevin Ryan and Brian Kehew, whose deeply researched and timely self-published book Recording the Beatles, shows with painstaking clarity how recording engineers not only captured the band on tape, but augmented its musical palette in ways still emulated around the world. The book, first published in September by Curvebender Publishing, was an instant hit among Beatles fans and music geeks and has just gone into its second printing after the initial imprint of 3,000 copies sold out."
edit - derrr here's the link
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02/21/07
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Fredo
100 smackers. That's a lot of money for a book. Sadness overcomes me. 
02/21/07
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bbwax
100 does seem like a lot. i'd have to see it first. it's like 500 pages i think, and chocked full of info.
i've paid up to $60 for photography books before. but it was worth it cause they had lots of purdy pichurs.
02/21/07
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11t1
looks like you get some pics in this book as well: link
i'd love this one, plus the complete beatles scores - and john lennon's mummified corpse, of course
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Roshi
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Artsigreg
i want this so much. i mean any reference that gives way
to genius is appreciated by me. I'm at a point in my life
where im as interested in the productions or what George Martin
was doing as i am with what the boys were doing. In many ways
Martin Saved them on atleast the first two records where they
couldn't write a song to save their lives. George Martin said: "they grew
as songwriters in a way thats breath-taking." Inspiring stuff indeed.
02/21/07
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bbwax
i thought you'd be drooling over this one. and yes, george martin deserved some more credit, and groupies.
02/21/07
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bbwax
what's the best beatles documentary? especially with an eye towards production and studio craft, not just "stardom and fame" and performance clips.
02/21/07
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Psyingo
i dont understand why they just didnt use another tape machine for delay. those silly brits.
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Otterfan
Because they were swimming in money.
02/22/07
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bbwax
i wish studio engineers still wore white labcoats. that'd be cool.
02/22/07
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bbwax
now they just have mullets.
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