How The Beatles Recorded Bass in 1967
Video with Clay Blair from Boulevard Recording showing how Geoff Emerick recorded bass during The Beatles’ Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band sessions.
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Music and recording played by: Clay Blair
Video and editing by: Scott Ditrich
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Originally posted by UCsXVLbBVYM6ruL3nY5Tzcew at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a59hpDjszH4
Wonderful work of analysis and reproduction
It's no wonder that getting Paul's tone 100% is practically impossible.
How to emulate that with a plugin, like sunset Studio from Ik?
Huh I don’t remember watching this.. but here we are.. again.
Awesome! How'd you record that acoustic?
4:27 he didn't palm-mute. The Rickenbacker had built-in foam mutes.
The only one in the world showing how that bass sound was produced. Appreciate your effort. ???? So to say… a “woman tone” on the bass.
Cool…Isn't th "figure eight," actually called, a "Cardio"?
What can i use instead of the c12, a ribbon?
makes me mad how great of a video this is
Very nice. Decent playing…GREAT ears, bro.
Hello again dear Clay. I hope you are doing well ???? Could you help me with a doubt? Did they also used the bassman amp for the bass on Nowhere man? or was a Vox AC100?
Hey Clay thanks so much for sharing all this knowledge. You are a wizard! Are those Optima RB flatwound strings by any chance?
Bro I can get that same tone from my fender rumble 40 watt
Doesn't having the pickup cover on the bridge pickup make palm muting a PITA?
question for ya. for the song "im looking through you" by the beatles. how did they achieve the guitar tone for the lead riff during the verses around :45 second mark. thanks!
???????? Superb! Who's singing those 'Aahhs' at 3:36 John or Paul??
Are you sure that Paul didn't use the original 'muting stuff' tha Ric kenbacker has as part of its bridge? I mean the absorber rubber sponge, that has two knobs (screw caps) to control its action?
Great video, thanks! I have a Hofner, it's a '62 Re-Issue (I think) and also a nice Rickenbacker – bought both in the '90s. I love both, the Hofner is fun for the 'thump' and sliding around octaves (flatwounds) and the Ric has that wonderful 'bounce' that characterised so much of Paul's playing as they moved into the Pepper period – he had a unique sound and I think a lot of those tracks benefitted from the fact that he would often overdub with the DI / Amp mix.
Hiya Will, I thought you'd be interested in the technical side of this xx
0:30 – recording approach
THEY NEVER USED SHOW AMP they used Twin silver faces and a Bassman Get a Beatles Gear Book God you Suck at this part of your Beatles Studio History
1st your useing the wrong bass amphead and cabinet
and you can get Bassman heads and cabs EVERY WHERE!!!
Awsome man! ????????????
The bass Paul used in touring he never used in the studio much at all after 1966 til the Get Back sessions. Thats why they spent a whole day at the first/second day of Get Back sessions making jokes of the 1966 tour setlist on the bass yet, starting off with George saying 'I see your finally playing that bass again…'.
man… I always thought that he used a double bass for Lucy in the sky with diamonds hahaha!
This is a great video thank you for this
That Sgt.Pepper bass tone is stunning
Clay, you should make an impulse response pack of that cab miced up for this sound. A lot of bass players use IR's now in live situations with a preamp like the dark glass pedals. We need some more Beatley bass tones in modern music.
Man. I was straight up lost in that song along with that bass groove. So good. Then all of a sudden, the volume dropped, you started talking again, and I realized my trip had come to an end.
Hi and thank you for your work ! Any idea if that's the same method on "Little help" This tone is clearly more DI and heavily compressed don't you think ? thanks PS : what an amazing sound 60 years from now
Paul has already said in an interview that after they recorded the session,he went up to the control room and Di'd the bass and did his bass lines for the album,with geoff emerick!
What are the amp EQ settings?
Did he remove the bridge pup cover ?
Sounds like The Office theme song w no vocals.
Paul M and Wings Silly Love Songs has one of the best bass lines ever.
You should have use the Vox amp and cabinet that Paul used
Think DI box was invented by a Motown engineer when he was a teenager and could not afford mics for his band– Geoff Emmerick relays that they were emulating this bass sound by wiring speakers in reverse. It's a great story in his book "My Life Recording the Beatles"
These Beatles videos are brilliant. This is spot on
Hey GUY you fluffed it at 3.03 where PM's bass does amazing .
Self serving dumb video.