What with the Beatles' fascination with stereo separation?

[Kev]

Just wondering.

 

[MazerRackham]

Yeah some songs are hard to listen to with headphones, but you can't really complain all that much 🙂

 

[Ogg]

Cause when you're tripping it sounds really really really neat. I think 😀:beer:

 

[midwestfisherman]

Originally posted by: Ogg
Cause when you're tripping it sounds really really really neat. I think 😀:beer:

LOL!! 😀

 

[BigSmooth]

They just liked to experiment, and that's part of what made them great.
When they first started recording, I believe they had to use just 4 tracks or MAYBE 8 tracks. They liked to play with "bouncing" tracks down to one in order to fit more tracks into the song. They also liked to play with the separation and various levels, keeping the vocals or lead guitar totally separate throughout the song or even swinging it back and forth during the song. They came along just as recording equipment began to get more sophisticated and they really revolutionized studio recording in a lot of ways.

I think it adds a lot to some of their songs, and you can tell that they got better at it as they went along. I love how the individual guitar phrases in "The End" on Abbey Road move from left to right and back again.

 

[JoeKing]

you mean the early stuff? The good stuff 🙂 cause its all they had to work with back there man. They dind't have 100+ channel boards back then.

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^ what he said

 

[Unkempt1]

John, Paul, and George liked experimenting with different sounds and techniques all the time. I suppose the quick answer to your question would be "because they could."

If you want to find out more about their various techniques, check out this book : Beatles Gear

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: Unkempt1
John, Paul, and George liked experimenting with different sounds and techniques all the time. I suppose the quick answer to your question would be "because they could."

If you want to find out more about their various techniques, check out this book : Beatles Gear

Yup, Zepplin is famous for that kind of production. Jimmy Page could do some seriously creative stuff when producing early Zep way back in the day.

 

[TheNinja]

Talk of the Beatles, Zep, Page and the old stuff where the artists actually created music, produced it in different ways and put effort in to it makes me very sad for today's state of the music industry. Mass produced, no creativity, cookie-cutter bands that dub in sounds and simply overlay tracks on top of each other and change voices to fill it whatever they want. Has technology killed music rather than improved it?

 

[spidey07]

because that's what stereo is for. Otherwise you'd just have one speaker in the center (as the original hi-fi had), then they moved to three and finally just two (with quadraphonic thrown in for some fun)

 

[Jzero]

A lot of it was also that it was new tech that they could play with. Mike Oldfield loved to muck around with quadrophonic effects for pretty much the same reason, although the technology never quite took off.