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At 09:44 AM 12/15/99 -0800, you wrote: >dear list: im looking to recreate the sound of Revolver by the beatles... Any specific instrument/part, or just the feel of the album in general? An excellent resource is Mark Lewisohn's "The Beatles Recording Sessions" (Harmony Books, 1988). It's the studio session notes covering everything the Beatles ever recorded at Abbey Road from 1962 to 1970, and it goes into minutia about effects & equipment used, the order the overdubs were put on & instrument combinations sharing tracks, alternate takes, anecdotes, mic techniques, et cetera. It's a good read even if you're not a Beatles fan as long as you're at all interested in the process of getting music onto tape (or hard disc, as the case may be...) It won't tell you how to make a PC record varispeed or backwards, and the only thing of loop-interest apart from "Tomorrow Never Knows" is some stuff about piecing together snippets from the studio's sound effects library, but it's a great look at some innovative use of the rudimentary multitracking technology available at the time. Hint: They were using ADT on almost ALL of Lennon's vocals in 1966... Tim