analyzing the Beatles' audio

a cool read/listen/look!

• http://waxy.org/2009/10/audio_analysis_of_the_beatles_multitrack_masters/
• http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=d7d3850207f1f48895af63b7d44918aaad61dc7f2962ed58
• http://recordingthebeatles.com/

there's something very attractive about magnetic tape - no pun intended

i've done a little experiment. i decided that - hey, before i'm going to master this sucker i'm going to record the mix-down to a normal analogue tape cassette (compact cassette). then once it's on tape i'm going to record it back into logic with a little analogue hardware compression, a samson s-com 4 (-2db threshold). then layer it under the digital recording so that you can just hear it but not so much that it change the mix-bus compression... man do i like the effect!!!! it's just - and i hate it when people say it - warmer sounding. maybe it's all in the mind but there's something cool and funky about the result. try it...

here's a cool read if you're a history fan like me.