Norman Smith

Yes, yes.

And the engineer, Norman Smith, Norman Hurricane Smith, he comments that this is extremely difficult to record because there's lots of peaks and a very complex waveform.

And, you know, he seems to have had quite a difficult time recording that.

And the thing that really shocked me is he says he didn't like Rubber Soul.

was the

engineer on Rubber Soul and much like yourself, he doesn't like it.

Well, he said it wasn't really my bag, but then, you know, he's a fascinating guy, Norman Normal Hurricane Smith, because he goes off to work with Pink Floyd and the pretty things on SF Sorrow.

And then he becomes Hurricane Smith, the artist.

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The book explores the songs, instruments, arrangements, recording techniques, and the invaluable contributions of George Martin, Norman Smith, and Jeff Emmerich, and others, revealing how those records actually got made.

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So researchers Kevin Ryan and Brian Kehoe examined photographs and EMI documentation while preparing the aforementioned 2022 Revolver project.

Their conclusion is that for most of Revolver, Emmerich largely retained Norman Smith's existing drum microphone arrangement, D20 on kick, the mandated 18 inches

or more behind

40, 38 overhead and a D 19 around the high hat.

And the drum sounds unquestionably became denser and heavier in this period.

But even the Fairchild story deserves some kind of qualification, the Fairchild story that floats around.

So the Fairchild 660 was already at EMI and Norman Smith had already used it on drums.

So this is part of the story, too, is that he's the first to run drums through this and have these like crazy compressed sounds.

Nothing really feels overplayed on this.

I think that's due to Norman Smith's clarity on the engineering side of things throughout the Rubber Soul sessions.

But I think it's also kind of going back to what Austin says.

They were rushing to do this.

So Jeff Emerick came in a revolver.

So Norman Smith, interesting, did all the Beatles stuff after Rubber Soul.

He's an unsung hero.

And the reason why he's an unsung hero is because he signed Pink Floyd.

Okay, so Norman Smith, the engineer, signed Pink Floyd and produced their first album.

Wow.

And because he was their producer, my dad said, I'm not having two producers in the control room, and fired him, really, and got Jeff Emmerich, who was a 19-year-old mastering guy, to come downstairs and work on Revolver.

It's up there with anything I've ever heard, and we keep saying over and over again that that was a live performance and a live mix at the same time.

Their engineers, especially Norman Smith, who did half their records- Uh, Jeff Emerick, Ken Scott, Phil McDonald, these various people that worked with him, they're geniuses too.

And as you probably know, engineering can make or break an entire record.

Yes.

Thank you.

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Then, no more big hits.

Oh, surprised at that.