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Re: Rvolver

Wow! thanks for the info.  Sorry, for my ignorance though, but what is an 
ADT?

- Chris


>At 09:44 AM 12/15/99 -0800, you wrote:
>>dear list: im looking to recreate the sound of Revolver by the beatles...
>
>Any specific instrument/part, or just the feel of the album in general?
>
>An excellent resource is Mark Lewisohn's "The Beatles Recording Sessions"
>(Harmony Books, 1988). It's the studio session notes covering everything
>the Beatles ever recorded at Abbey Road from 1962 to 1970, and it goes 
>into
>minutia about effects & equipment used, the order the overdubs were put on
>& instrument combinations sharing tracks, alternate takes, anecdotes, mic
>techniques, et cetera. It's a good read even if you're not a Beatles fan 
>as
>long as you're at all interested in the process of getting music onto tape
>(or hard disc, as the case may be...)
>
>It won't tell you how to make a PC record varispeed or backwards, and the
>only thing of loop-interest apart from "Tomorrow Never Knows" is some 
>stuff
>about piecing together snippets from the studio's sound effects library,
>but it's a great look at some innovative use of the rudimentary
>multitracking technology available at the time.
>
>Hint: They were using ADT on almost ALL of Lennon's vocals in 1966...
>
>Tim