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In Reply to: RE: Ok, so posted by b.l.zeebub on August 26, 2014 at 07:45:20:
the reason for having so many tracks is to "patch" problems after the fact. :)
"It would probably have been easier today, but it probably wouldn't have turned out as well. I think the discipline of 4-track in 1967 made us do things - certainly made me do things - that you wouldn't do today. And it made The Beatles perform better. They had to perform. They had to be good in order to concentrate on small tracks at a time.
There wasn't the luxury of saying, well, we can patch that later. We couldn't do that; we had to work things to a conclusion as we went along. Particularly when you're mixing down from one 4-track to another, you solidify everything that has gone before. You couldn't go back, otherwise you'd destroy everything that you were doing. That discipline, and that forward-thinking, I think was part of the success of Sgt Pepper.
Having to do that worked out very much in our favour. It sounds as though we chose to do that, but of course we didn't. We used only the tools that were available, and that's all that was available. I think if I'd had 72 tracks, or whatever, in those days, I would have used them. But I'm not sorry that I didn't!"
Martin on production
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Follow Ups
- According to Martin - E-Stat 08:08:51 08/26/14 (5)
- RE: According to Martin - b.l.zeebub 08:21:36 08/26/14 (4)
- RE: According to Martin - Inmate51 10:39:40 08/26/14 (1)
- RE: According to Martin - b.l.zeebub 11:49:08 08/26/14 (0)
- Yep, the Stax sound and stable of artists is among my faves too. nt - Rick W 10:01:37 08/26/14 (0)
- You and I are on the same page! -nt - E-Stat 08:45:24 08/26/14 (0)
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