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| From | "Billy G. Spradlin" <bgspradlin@cablelynx.com> |
| Subject | Re: Mistakes |
| Date | Sat, 15 Feb 2003 00:49:23 -0600 |
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Revolver was recorded on 4-track, so engineers had to do a lot of bouncing
tracks around to get everything to fit in. You have to remember also
control boards weren't automated, all those records were hand mixed. It
sounds to me that Paul "doubled" his voice on two tracks, and they were
supposed to be mixed together on one channel (the right). But the
background vocals are also are on those tracks too - and they are supposed
to be mixed in left-right stereo for maximum effect. So the engineer is
bouncing one track left to right and forgets his cue for a couple seconds.
On the stereo mix of 1967 John Fred & The Playboy Band's "Judy in Disguise
with Glasses" his voice is also doubled with a harmony vocal. After the
instrumental string break, you hear him sing "Come To Me Tonight" and both
voices are split, the second time he sings it he back in the center!
That #1 record was recorded at Robin Hood studios in Tyler TX - and the guy
who runs the studio (Robin Hood Brians - who is still running his studio -
he's quite a character!) was using a homemade 4-track mixing board he and a
local radio station engineer built himself. Its amazing a teenager in the
60's could build a studio in his backyard, and get regional label artists
(Five Americans, Mouse & The Traps, and ZZ Top) to record there.
http://www.robinhoodstudios.com/
Billy
At 10:26 PM 2/14/03 -0500, you wrote:
>In a message dated 2/14/03 7:14:37 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>mkropp@comcast.net writes:
>
> > I always swear I hear a misplayed chord in "Let It Be" (last verse I
> think).
> > Always used to listen for that drop-out in "Day Tripper" until it was
> > corrected on "1".
>
>Oh I have an interesting tidbit of this variety:
>
>In my recording class we were talking about how early stereo records sounded,
>and "Revolver" was an example. Well you know how on "Eleanor Rigby" Paul's
>vocals are in both ears during the choruses and just in one ear on the
>verses? Well someone was sitting at the boards MANUALLY fading those vocals
>out from one side live as they were recording it in the studio. Well on the
>first verse he missed his cue and was about a second too late. If you isolate
>one speaker (I can't remember which one) and listen, it's VERY noticeable how
>Paul's vocal stays in the speaker for a few words into the verse before being
>quickly and rather ungracefully faded into oblivion! --Jason
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