More interesting links for historical context: http://www.answers.com/topic/tom-dowd?method=8 http://www.angelfire.com/ca/oldtimers/TomDowd.html ron --- Paul Winkler <pw_lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 11:08:21AM -0500, Dan Easley > wrote: > > On 2/15/06, Brad Fuller <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > What's amazing to me is that they didn't have > access to an 8-track > > > > until the White Album. Listen to something > like > > > > "I Am the Walrus" or "Tomorrow Never Knows" > and imagine creating that on > > > > a 4-track. > > > > > > > perhaps bouncing was their friend. > > > > yeah, I believe they commonly would fill up one > 4-track, then bounce > > it to one or two tracks of their other 4-track, > fill that one up, and > > do it again. man, i just wasn't made for those > times. > > Yes. You had to be really, really good at creating > submixes, > because once you'd comitted to one, you couldn't do > it over > without throwing away all your later work. > > It helped that these 4-track machines were then > state-of-the-art > reel-to-reel devices. If you tried all that > bouncing on a > cassette portastudio, it'd sound like utter crap > real quick. > All hiss and no treble makes your mix a dull bore. > > The other trick the Beatles had up their sleeve was > one of their engineers invention of automatick > doubling: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_double_tracking > > Of course, the real pioneer of all this stuff was > Les Paul. > He was bouncing eight guitar parts in 1947 on wax > discs. > He invented and paid for Ampex to build him an > eight-track reel to reel > overdub-capable machine in 1954. Nobody else had > eight tracks > until the mid sixties. > > -- > > Paul Winkler > http://www.slinkp.com > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
