Producing The Beatles

15/06/2025

I realized I needed to finish off the Rubber Soul stereo vocal isolations. Here's I'm Looking Through You. Fifteen down, one to go!

Recorded November 11, 1965, Paul's double tracked vocal split left and right with John's double tracked harmony in the middle. Like most of these Rubber Soul...

15/06/2025

If you need a break from current events, here's a preview of what's coming for the next season of Producing The Beatles: Penny Lane stripped down to its essence. When I first started putting together the podcast, this was one of the songs I wanted to examine and technology has finally caught up with my ideas. I can't wait to share this with everyone.

A preview of the new season of the Producing The Beatles podcast, coming soon: Penny Lane stripped down to its bare essentials, just a single piano and Paul'...

13/03/2025

Adding the layers one by one for Hello Goodbye. Come hear this and more tonight at my Producing the Beatles Zoom class through Monmouth University. Due to popular demand we added a few more spots! Link in first comment.

09/03/2025

This is a good example of how the Beatles made Sgt Pepper on four-track: lots of tape reductions, piling multiple instruments on individual tracks, as laid out on one of the slides for part 2 of the Producing the Beatles Zoom class I'm teaching Thursday evening. I've managed to isolate every overdub and we'll be walking through the process of making this recording step by step, along with three other Beatles recordings. Since I've had a few requests, we've opened up the registration for people who missed last week. And if you sign up, I'll send a download link for the first class. Registration link in first comment.

04/03/2025

More stereo vocals from Rubber Soul, this time with lush backing harmonies behind Paul's solo lead for "Michelle."

To hear more like this (and those backing vocals isolated) join me this Thursday via Zoom for my class "The Beatles as Harmony Singers." Link in comments.

Two tracks of sublime backing vocals by John, Paul and George wrap Paul's lead vocals in a warm blanket of sound.

11/02/2025

Incredibly, this has been on youtube since December but I only just heard it today. Paul's lovely double tracked demo for Step Inside Love, a huge upgrade from what we've had previously. Enjoy!

Gosh! That McCartney fellow is flippin' brilliant! Here's a tape I was given, a million years ago, by a BBC film editor. He was working with Cilla Black and ...

23/01/2025

Not sure how much longer I'll be on this app, but for now, here's the next Rubber Soul vocal isolation: "Girl," with John's incredible lead against stereo backing vocals, including the "tit tit tit" section in the bridge. I still don't know how they didn't run out of breath during that part.

One of John Lennon's great vocals with the backing vocals panned left and right

21/01/2025

More Beatle harmonies, this time for Wait from Rubber Soul. I managed to separate out Paul's harmony vocal (left), which was on the same track as John's lead (center), both recorded during the Help! sessions. They taped the second harmony (heard in this mix in the right channel) on the last evening of the Rubber Soul sessions, November 11, 1965.

John and Paul taped their lead and harmony vocals during the Help sessions and then added a second harmony track in November on the last night of the Rubber ...