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Re: Rvolver

ADT stands for Artificial Double Tracking; it's flanging, really, but
before there were commercially available flangers. Abbey Road engineers had
just come up with a technique to simulate an overdubbed doubling of a track
to fill out the sound. Prior to ADT, it was standard practice to
double-track the vocals on Beatles recordings, but the Beatles
(particularly Lennon) didn't care for the drudgery of the time-consuming
process, so Abbey Road's Ken Townsend came up with the ADT technique. You
can do it pretty easily now with a short digital delay and flange, but
since they didn't have these things back then, what they did was to run the
signal from the playback head of a tape machine into another recorder with
a variable oscillator, then re-combine the signal with the original,
thereby widening it. It's a lot easier nowadays!

Tim

At 08:40 PM 12/15/99 -0800, you wrote:
> Sorry, for my ignorance though, but what is an ADT?
>>At 09:44 AM 12/15/99 -0800, you wrote:
>>>dear list: im looking to recreate the sound of Revolver by the 
>beatles...
>>Hint: They were using ADT on almost ALL of Lennon's vocals in 1966...