Audio Recording Techniques : Beatles Recording Techniques

The Beatles pioneered several recording techniques, such as double tracking, isolated miking, and the use of fore-tracks. Find out how the Beatles recorded their music with information from an independent recording engineer and producer in this free video on music recording.

Expert: Frank Green
Contact: www.digitalmaster.com
Bio: Frank Green, owner of DigitalMaster, moved to Nashville, Tenn., more than 24 years ago to further his music recording and production career.
Filmmaker: Dimitri LaBarge

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• recording
• music
• audio
• software
• devices
• studio
• equipment

[hiphopsucks96]

Let's face it... George Martin was the second most important factor in the Beatles' success. He really knew how to improve a track- say a song off of Sgt. Pepper- and made the recordings so precise in terms of what they wanted- quote, "By Sgt. Pepper, I suppose I was a realizer of their ideas."

[bloodnokian]

@hiphopsucks96 People always say this person or that is the '5th Beatle', George Martin can only ever be the true 5th Beatle, he was as important to their sound as Lennon, McCartney, Harrison or Starr.

[LILALPIMPIN]

"hmmmm, my nails are really nasty today."

[kingsofcarnage]

@bryceHUHwhat Ok, cheers - will try that out next chance I get :)

[bryceHUHwhat]

@kingsofcarnage 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]

@bryceHUHwhat 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]

@kingsofcarnage 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.

[svennbreng]

Great info. thanx. Going to try that double modulating vocals now.

[kingsofcarnage]

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

[rhyskallen]

does he use clasp

[cranie4]

@rjmprod 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.

[rjmprod]

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.