What he would do is bring up the "natural" channel to full level to get the basic natural sound on the vocal. On the compressed channel, he compressed the h**l out of it and added a ton of high-frequency equalization. On the uncompressed vocal he added very little with the equalizer and he added the reverb. Now he had two channels of the vocal - one compressed and one uncompressed. Before the vocal signal went to the second channel, it went through a compressor. He took the vocal and split the signal so that it when to 2 console channels. Lawrence Horn came up with a brilliant idea. The only problem with this is that it took the life & natural dynamics out of the vocal. In addition you boosted the "presence range" (around 5 kHz) with an equalizer. If you wanted the lyrics to be heard you had to use a lot of compression on the vocal so that the softer words could still be heard over the higher-level music. With the Motown mix approach there were problems. Lennon was a huge fan of Motown music and many of his solo recordings contained elements taking right out of the Motown playbook involving a huped compression technique typically referred to as the "Exciting Compressor". A song like Instant Karma used nearly identical mixing techniques to many of the Motown Recordings where the entire mix had a big plate reverb layered over the music to create a cavern sound. Many of the recordings done around the time of imagine used effects and techniques taken straight out of the Beatles playbook, likely because he used the same people to mix and record them. Next you need to use an old 60's style Compressor with a 10:1 ratio which acts more like a limiter then a compressor.įollow that with a 50's style short slap back Tape echo on his voice, followed by a plate reverb.Īfter that you simply need to have a voice like his. He rolls off highs and lows to give the voice the nearly telephone sound of old fashioned PA's back in the 50's 60's The key to getting Lennon's sound is first and foremost the Vocals. I actually prefer the stripped down "How do you sleep" without the strings. It was actually a really simple album, just 8 tracks, a very simple desk (maybe transferred to 16 for overdubs by Spector later). You can see them discussing arrangements, see the gear in the background, recording the basic tracks. Greets! If you like the album, you should really see the making of documentary. Dynamic processing used? The desk? Psy-acoustic stuff? etc. Soo I would be very thankfull for some informations. I just love that solid amount of pre delayed reverb on vocal and overall sound is just "IT" for me. My main goal is to get informations how "How do you sleep" was produced. I have found some informations on the the web but not much info about the gear used. BUT I would also like to get some more informations on how it was produced. I know that the best way to figure it out is to keep trying. Its just my direction, just the feel I would love to reach in my mixes. But since last months Im just totally in love with that sound. So I do listen to John Lennon's Imagine album on vinyl for like two years (from time to time).
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