| yeah... those of us who worked on tape machines back in the day worked hard to get RID of the wobble! Well... flutter and WOW!
ah! the Beatles. So good. The high mark to aspire to.
Have any of you checked out The Continuum keyboard? Really cool.
WANNA GET ONE!!! Not cheap though. Some cool samples on the site.
R
On Jan 13, 2009, at 3:39 PM, Charles Zwicky wrote: Regardless, the guitar was also tracked through a leslie speaker. The "wobble" Chris mentions is clearly audible as the slow pitch wavers as on the organ. Charles Zwicky wrote:
The Solo on "While my Guitar Gently Weeps" is played through a Leslie cabinet, unlike any other Beatles guitar solo.
This also contributes to the 'wide vibrato' you mention.
The wobble is mostly due to hand manipulation of the varispeed.
Monday 14 October 1968; Chirs Thomas: "So we did this flanging thing, really wobbling the oscillator in the mix. I did that for hours. What a boring job!"
from The Beatles Recording Sessions by Mark Lewisohn.
Previously, this book explains that an oscillator was used to determine tape speed by controlling the pinch motor's speed. We are left to conclude that two machines were playing the guitar solo more or less in sync but one machine's oscillator (i.e. tape speed) was being manipulated to, as per Eric Clapton's suggestion, make the guitar have a more Beatles sound than a Clapton one.
Cheers,
Bill
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