What are your favorite sounding Beatles songs or albums? Jerry's New Book on Beatles Sounds: www.amazon.com/s?k=beatles+jerry+hammack&i=deals-intl-ship&_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&crid=ZKGT8L090K2I&linkCode=ur2&linkId=e7be06f9fe71378026cd0cadd5634282&sprefix=studio+microphone%252Cdeals-intl-ship%252C53&tag=sonicscoop08-20&ref=nb_sb_noss ►🎚Mixing Breakthroughs: mixingbreakthroughs.com ►🎛Compression Breakthroughs: compressionbreakthroughs.com ►🎧 EQ Breakthroughs: EQBreakthroughs.com ►🔊Mastering Demystified: MasteringDemystified.com ►✅Become a channel member here: th-cam.com/channels/qEKv3KIZoZrjv2LymD3iMg.htmljoin
Even tho the Emerick era is the more known in terms of Sonic perspective, I think that rubber soul is one of the best Beatles sounding albums ever. It’s got incredible punch and clarity.
Their most compelling sounds for me are from winter '66 to early '68 before leaving for India. Ringo's drums are crispy and full, Paul's bass is rich and prominent, pianos more evident and highly compressed, vocals are experimental with ADT and tape delays. For me the Abbey Road album sounds too smooth. The White Album is wild but it's that late 66-early 68 Redd desk J37 bouncing on 4 tracks that does it for me
Hell yeah! The Beatles are my favorite band so this was super enjoyable for me. For those looking to emulate their electric sound, look into the UA Ruby pedal. Its an emulation of the 63' VOX AC30. I own one and it's incredible. Also, hate to be that guy but how is Paul an underrated bass player? His bass playing is well regarded, acknowledged, and legendary
I’m glad you’re hanging out in circles where McCartney gets the credit he is due as a bass player. But let’s put it this way: If you asked the average bass player, “who are your top x favorite bass players of all time?” how many are going to think to name him? Same for Ringo if you poll drummers. Their names aren’t likely to come up. But then, if you ask musicians “are Paul McCarthey’s bass lines good?” Those who have ever thought about it are going to say “heck yes”. But you’ll also find a plenty of musicians who haven’t really thought about it. At least, that was my experience coming of age around this stuff as someone born in 1982. -Justin
@@SonicScoop That's interesting, I guess it really is about the circles you're in. That's where the whole over/underrated convo can get distorted. But for the sake of a general worldly opinion, I will say this: Most popular ranking lists (while perhaps biased), have McCartney and Ringo usually in the top 10 of bassists and drummers, respectively - even if the opinions of 'regular' people may vary. I also do feel like Ringo gets a bit more criticism than Paul for his "simple playing" - which I don't think he should. People just love to hate on Ringo lol. So I feel like the underrated argument applies more to him. Paul's bass playing is probably the reason I started playing bass!
You should Google "Ray Davies Reviews Beatles". He reviewed "Revolver" for a British music magazine when the album came out. Fun to read a little bit of the peer attitude in that moment.
I was surprised that there was no mention about the actual instruments that were used. For example, the combination of specific guitar types are important to presenting "the Beatles Sound" on any given Beatles song. Playing in many band that performed Beatles tunes, when the "correct" guitars were used, the results were more Beatle-ish than when any other guitar types were used. Of course, the parts being played had to be close too but the guitar sound had to be true.
We did discuss basses and guitar amps a bit, but didn’t get into guitars. They are however, all in the book! We did focus a bit more on the high level conversation instead of all the details. -Justin
Mmm great interview but I'm not really sure I got anything usable other than incorporating limitations. I get no one is the beatles but hour and 47 minutes? Bad Rick! Be nice! ❤
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What are your favorite sounding Beatles songs or albums?
Jerry's New Book on Beatles Sounds: www.amazon.com/s?k=beatles+jerry+hammack&i=deals-intl-ship&_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&crid=ZKGT8L090K2I&linkCode=ur2&linkId=e7be06f9fe71378026cd0cadd5634282&sprefix=studio+microphone%252Cdeals-intl-ship%252C53&tag=sonicscoop08-20&ref=nb_sb_noss
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Even tho the Emerick era is the more known in terms of Sonic perspective, I think that rubber soul is one of the best Beatles sounding albums ever. It’s got incredible punch and clarity.
Their most compelling sounds for me are from winter '66 to early '68 before leaving for India. Ringo's drums are crispy and full, Paul's bass is rich and prominent, pianos more evident and highly compressed, vocals are experimental with ADT and tape delays. For me the Abbey Road album sounds too smooth. The White Album is wild but it's that late 66-early 68 Redd desk J37 bouncing on 4 tracks that does it for me
My fav studio expert and my fav Beatles expert - what a great session. Excellent Q&A too. Thanks for doing it! Ordered the book.
Nice! Yes, Jerry is a good one :-)
-Justin
Hell yeah! The Beatles are my favorite band so this was super enjoyable for me. For those looking to emulate their electric sound, look into the UA Ruby pedal. Its an emulation of the 63' VOX AC30. I own one and it's incredible.
Also, hate to be that guy but how is Paul an underrated bass player? His bass playing is well regarded, acknowledged, and legendary
I’m glad you’re hanging out in circles where McCartney gets the credit he is due as a bass player.
But let’s put it this way: If you asked the average bass player, “who are your top x favorite bass players of all time?” how many are going to think to name him?
Same for Ringo if you poll drummers.
Their names aren’t likely to come up.
But then, if you ask musicians “are Paul McCarthey’s bass lines good?” Those who have ever thought about it are going to say “heck yes”.
But you’ll also find a plenty of musicians who haven’t really thought about it.
At least, that was my experience coming of age around this stuff as someone born in 1982.
-Justin
@@SonicScoop That's interesting, I guess it really is about the circles you're in. That's where the whole over/underrated convo can get distorted. But for the sake of a general worldly opinion, I will say this: Most popular ranking lists (while perhaps biased), have McCartney and Ringo usually in the top 10 of bassists and drummers, respectively - even if the opinions of 'regular' people may vary.
I also do feel like Ringo gets a bit more criticism than Paul for his "simple playing" - which I don't think he should. People just love to hate on Ringo lol. So I feel like the underrated argument applies more to him.
Paul's bass playing is probably the reason I started playing bass!
This is amazing!!! Thank you for making this video. Gonna get that book
Awesome to hear!
-Justin
I really love the sounds of Abbey Road and Let It Be. I feel like these are their best works
You should Google "Ray Davies Reviews Beatles". He reviewed "Revolver" for a British music magazine when the album came out. Fun to read a little bit of the peer attitude in that moment.
Just FYI, the podcast is only coming up as 22 seconds long on Apple’s podcast app.
Thanks for the heads up. A fixed version should publish around 630am tomorrow.
-Justin
I was surprised that there was no mention about the actual instruments that were used. For example, the combination of specific guitar types are important to presenting "the Beatles Sound" on any given Beatles song. Playing in many band that performed Beatles tunes, when the "correct" guitars were used, the results were more Beatle-ish than when any other guitar types were used. Of course, the parts being played had to be close too but the guitar sound had to be true.
We did discuss basses and guitar amps a bit, but didn’t get into guitars. They are however, all in the book! We did focus a bit more on the high level conversation instead of all the details.
-Justin
Mmm great interview but I'm not really sure I got anything usable other than incorporating limitations. I get no one is the beatles but hour and 47 minutes? Bad Rick! Be nice! ❤
A bit late to this one. Gonna catch up
Hope you enjoy!
-Justin
First thing I did when I loaded a Mellotron flute sample onto the Microfreak was play this intro from the absolute best Beatles song
th-cam.com/video/4krmgg8TBQY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=VZjLunXlBhlyeKrO
Wasn’t baby your a rich man recorded at Olympic Sound