Recording Studios in the United Kingdom - The Beatles' Recording Technology, Phillips' Sound Recording Services, Olympic Studios, Miloco Studios (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: The Beatles' recording technology, Phillips' Sound Recording Services, Olympic Studios, Miloco Studios, Strawberry Studios, Rolling Stones Mobile Studio, Bristol Road Methodist Church, The Manor Studio, Livingston Recording Studios, The Premises Studios, Konk, Headley Grange, List of UK recording studios, The Pop Factory, Acer Studios, Music Bank hire, The Hospital, Herbert Media, Southern Studios, Paris Theatre, Sol Studios, Redesdale Studios, Ronnie Lane's Mobile Studio, Wessex Sound Studios, Resident Studios, Cargo Studios, Linford Manor, The Works Recording Studio, The Farm, Woodbine Street Recording Studios, Priory Recording Studios, Little Tardis Studios, The Lodge Recording Studio, Ramport Studios, Waylands Forge Studios, Outside Studios, Greystoke studios. Excerpt: The Beatles' recording technology developed during the 1960s and influenced the way music was recorded. The Beatles' attitude to the recording process was summed up by Paul McCartney: "We would say, 'Try it. Just try it for us. If it sounds crappy, OK, we'll lose it. But it might just sound good.' We were always pushing ahead: Louder, further, longer, more, different." In the early part of the 1960s, EMI's Abbey Road Studios was equipped with EMI-made British Tape Recorders (BTR) which were developed in 1948, essentially as copies of German wartime recorders. The BTR was a twin-track, valve (Vacuum tube) based machine. When recording on the twin-track machine there was very little opportunity for overdubbing; the recording was essentially that of a live performance. The first two Beatles albums, Please Please Me and With The Beatles, were recorded on the BTR two track machines; with the introduction of four-track machines in 1963 (the first 4-track recording was "I Want to Hold Your Hand") there came a change in the way recordings were made-tracks...