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[Royal Pemberton]

True, Earl Okin did record at Abbey Road then.  Norman Smith was the
producer, and things didn't go at all well, sadly.

Parts of Elgar's FALSTAFF were among the first recordings at Abbey Road,
11/12 November 1931.

The Beatles, thanks to George Martin, at first got Apple going by using some
of EMI's remote equipment.  You'll see a pair of REDD.51 desks (IIRC) linked
together to make a kind of 8 track desk that got them through the LET IT BE
sessions.

On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 4:06 PM, <fnarf at comcast.net> wrote:

> > I think there were apogees in the art of recording. Would I be out of
> > hand to assert that the studios at Apple were second to none during the
> > production of the Beatle's "White Album"?
>
> The White Album wasn't recorded at Apple, but, like (almost) all the
> Beatles records, at EMI on Abbey Road. This studio (actually three, of
> varying sizes) is indeed one of the great record studios to this day. It was
> first used in the 1930s by Richard Elgar conducting the London Symphony
> Orchestra (I don't know what these recordings were).
>
> Our own Spats recorded at Abbey Road back in the sixties, if I'm not
> mistaken.
>
> The Apple studio in Savile Row was eventually a usable recording space but
> was famously in its earliest incarnation the most ludicrous excuse for a
> recording studio ever created. The "electronics expert" Magic Alex, hired by
> John Lennon, was a total fraud, and attempted to create a fake "72-track"
> studio by literally running 72 separate tracks and speakers. The studio had
> no patch bay and no talk-back facility so that engineers could talk to the
> musicians and vice versa. It all had to be ripped out. Just one of a hundred
> ways the Beatles pissed away their early millions.
>
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