[Tig] OT: Capitol Records/reverb

[Nichols Craig]

Could it have anything to do with "wall of sound" technique that was
made popular by Phil Spector at the time?  It appears The Beatles had a
differences of opinion regarding sonic unsuitability. Spector did
re-produce The Beatles "Let It Be" according to Wikipedia (hopefully no
actress/models or guns were involved ;-0)
>The Beatles' album Let It Be was re-produced by Phil Spector and is
cited as a famous example of his "Wall of Sound". Paul McCartney claimed
that the production had ruined the work, particularly McCartney's
composition "The Long and Winding Road", and a "de-Spectorized" version
of the album was released as Let It Be... Naked in 2003. George Harrison
and John Lennon ostensibly favored the production style, continuing to
use Spector on various solo projects.>

The above quote is from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_of_Sound

Craig Nichols
Thomson GVG
Don't benefit from Capitol records - have probably parked on top of echo
chambers though. 


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Subject: [Tig] OT: Capitol Records/reverb

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On Mon, November 26, 2007 1:43 am, Ted Langdell wrote:
> Thanks to Dave Corbitt for supporting the TIG.
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>
> They are "rented out" via equalized telco loops, and if I correctly
> remember one story that I'd read years ago about their use , they
> were used on a stereo Sinatra recording via four sets of equalized
> lines: Two from to the studio where he was recording to Capitol and
> two going back from Capitol.

In the Wikipedia article on Capitol Records, I found a paragraph about
the echo chambers that surprised me.  Didn't know that the early
Beatles records were processed for echo and EQ in Los Angeles,
though it was clear that the tracks of the British albums
were rearranged or deleted, so the US albums were quite
different than the UK originals, up until Sgt. Pepper's.    ... also
didn't realize that (later in the Wikipedia entry) Les Paul designed
the
echo chambers.

here's the paragraph (just what the heck do they mean by "sonically
unsuited"?)

After initial resistance to issuing records by The Beatles who were
signed to sister EMI label Parlophone, Capitol exercised its option in
November 1963 and helped usher in Beatlemania in 1964. (The
Beatles' earliest US issues had been on the small Vee-Jay label.)
Capitol's producers significantly altered the content of the Beatles
albums (see "Record Altering", below.), and, believing the Beatles'
recordings were sonically unsuited to the US market, added
equalization to brighten the sound, and also piped the recordings
through the famous Capitol echo chamber, located underneath the
parking lots outside the Capitol Tower.

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