Ever heard of re-amping?
Here’s a little foretaste, a snippet:
“The pair utilize something they’ve done for years now—re-amping. Speaker systems are set up in Abbey Road’s Studio Two, where most of The Beatles’ work took place, with a complex microphone rig placed many feet back, to capture the ambience of the room. “It’s quite laborious,” the engineer explains. “It’s a real time process. We play back every single drum split, every rhythm section, all vocals, all separately. We have a whole bunch of different mics, per signal, when we’re re-amping. So we end up with hundreds of tracks of this. And then, in the mix, we can decide what we want to use, what sounds best. It’s helpful in the stereo mixes, but certainly in the Atmos, where you might want to pan an instrument half left, and then pan the ambience of that to the right. It gives a bit more of a stereo width.” The process took about six days, total, for those countless ambience recordings.”
Taken from an in depth article written by Matt Hurwitz, April/May 2024 edition of Sound& Vision magazine, about the current recording of the Beatles music, and how it was captured. A very interesting, brilliant read. Every minutiae of the recording process is covered, rich with detail for every enquiring mind. Kudos to Matt and all those involved with bringing this document to light.
https://www.soundandvision.com/content/creation-beatles-last-song-and-rebirth-red-and-blue-0
Sam Okell’s re-amping setup in Abbey Road Studio Two - Courtesy Sam Okell (The second photo below)
Here’s a little foretaste, a snippet:
“The pair utilize something they’ve done for years now—re-amping. Speaker systems are set up in Abbey Road’s Studio Two, where most of The Beatles’ work took place, with a complex microphone rig placed many feet back, to capture the ambience of the room. “It’s quite laborious,” the engineer explains. “It’s a real time process. We play back every single drum split, every rhythm section, all vocals, all separately. We have a whole bunch of different mics, per signal, when we’re re-amping. So we end up with hundreds of tracks of this. And then, in the mix, we can decide what we want to use, what sounds best. It’s helpful in the stereo mixes, but certainly in the Atmos, where you might want to pan an instrument half left, and then pan the ambience of that to the right. It gives a bit more of a stereo width.” The process took about six days, total, for those countless ambience recordings.”
Taken from an in depth article written by Matt Hurwitz, April/May 2024 edition of Sound& Vision magazine, about the current recording of the Beatles music, and how it was captured. A very interesting, brilliant read. Every minutiae of the recording process is covered, rich with detail for every enquiring mind. Kudos to Matt and all those involved with bringing this document to light.
https://www.soundandvision.com/content/creation-beatles-last-song-and-rebirth-red-and-blue-0
Sam Okell’s re-amping setup in Abbey Road Studio Two - Courtesy Sam Okell (The second photo below)
