While their natural tightness together began to decline after the band stopped playing live, from 1965 through 1967 there wasn’t a better rhythm section in Britain than McCartney and Starr. McCartney and Starr were also at the height of their powers as a rhythm section at this point – incorporating elements from the Funk Brothers (the Four Tops’ first couple of hits had been that year, and these were the records that really established the Funk Brothers as the innovative musicians they were – they definitely influenced the Beatles around this time, with Lennon singing a snatch of It’s The Same Old Song on the band’s 1965 Xmas record), the MGs (especially the slight behind-the-beat sound caused by the MGs having to play in a studio with a huge natural reverb) and the Carol Kaye/Hal Blaine team into their own sound. This is mostly because of the astonishing bass sound, easily the most prominent and interesting bass-line on any British recording up to that point, along with McCartney’s double-tracked vocals in two distinct voices. But it’s one of the band’s most powerful tracks, even though its most notable features (the dropped-in piano and the spiky guitar solo) were done better elsewhere (the piano on What You’re Doing, the solo on Taxman. This is very much McCartney’s track – with almost no guitar and what little there is sounding more like McCartney than Harrison or Lennon, and with McCartney adding piano, I think the only other Beatle to play on this one is Starr on drums and percussion, though Lennon adds some harmonies and takes the line ‘and maybe I’ll love you’. Originally, the chorus was to have been “You can buy me diamond rings”, but Lennon decided this was horrible, and he and McCartney rewrote this into a story about the nature of fame which seems more, rather than less, pointed as time goes on and ‘celebrity’ becomes more divorced from ‘ability to do anything’. This makes the 60s stereo mix fantastic for isolating different instrumental parts, but absolutely horrible for listening on any system with any kind of separation.ĭrive My Car, the opening track, is very obviously influenced by Stax, and one of the band’s first truly funny songs. It also saw one of the stranger stereo mixes in the band’s history, with almost every song being mixed with the rhythm track in the left channel and the vocals and instrumental overdubs in the right channel. Only the second album they made to consist entirely of originals, it saw the band’s influences opening up – to include Stax, Indian music and the Byrds – and saw the band’s lyrical style change dramatically, many of the songs being comic short stories. Rubber Soul, the Beatles’ second album of 1965, is generally considered the first album of their middle, most creative period. However when you get stuck, you're stuck.An edited version of this essay is now included in my book The Beatles In Mono.
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I'm fairly sure someone is going to say "learn how to use sends" or "read up on signal path" - I'm sure these comments will be fully justified and this is something ultra-obvious. I see there are pan input and pan output controls on the bus, but these aren't helping achieve the stereo mix of the 5 guitar parts. Whatever I do, I can't seem to achieve a panned submix within the bus. I've played around with both the tracks mono and stereo, and also the bus mono and stereo interleave. I then tried adjusting the actual send pan control.still no difference. However, I've noticed that no matter how I pan the individual tracks, when I solo the bus all the tracks appear to be centred (or in mono, not totally sure). They're all using the same sound (obviously) and the purpose of doing this is to save on system resources (as opposed to having five different incidences for each track). I'm currently on 6 and REALLY struggling with a small issue - I've checked the help notes, the manual, Anderton's book - still no joy.īasically, I have inserted sends from four or five different rhythm guitar tracks to a bus, in order that they can share the same incidence of Amplibube 2. Very simple question re panning to Busses but has me stumped!!
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