I heard it on the radio about a month or so ago. The DJ said that they
had totaled over one hundred and twenty voices on that tune through
multi tracking. If he was right, they must have had 3 or 4 people
tracked at a time per note (or fader) or I would think the recording
would be pretty noisy to do that much bouncing down. I did not listen to
it again since this thread but I think there was some singing in unison?
Each individual note sounds awfully full.(If the DJ was right and Andy
T. remembers 48 tracks- 3 voices per note or fader?)
Jim
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> My understanding from reading an article contemporaneous to the album
> (possibly in Rolling Stone) is that they used the multitrack recorder
> almost as a fader-controlled Mellotron, with many tracks (if memory
> serves, something on the order of 48 tracks just relegated to this)
> each one containing one sustained vocal note, and that during
> production, they just "played the faders" to bring in and fade out
> specific pitches to build the harmonic structure of the song.
>
> I'd sure like either confirmation or supported contradiction on this.
> Listening to it with smarter ears now that I'm older and have been
> doing this for a while seems to confirm the likelihood of my ancient
> recollection, but it would be nice to have that authenticated.
That's what I've heard, too. ∗Definitely∗ not a Mellotron, anyway!
Andy T.
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