One that comes to mind is that one time when the Beatles during the recording of Yellow Submarine decided to put a condom on a microphone strapped with rubber bands and ducked that sucker into a bucket filled to brim with water.
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What are some Bizzare Recording Strategies that you know of?
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Haha I never knew that and Revolver is probably my favourite album. Maybe not so bizarre anymore, but The Beatles also helped popularise backwards recording with songs like Rain and I'm Only Sleeping. They had to physically flip the tape over to achieve the effect.
Oh yes this one! John Lennon said he was high off of weed or something and then accidentally popped the demo tape into the tape player backwards which then played the tape backwards.
At 3/20/25 06:37 PM, TobyMoon wrote:
Haha I never knew that and Revolver is probably my favourite album. Maybe not so bizarre anymore, but The Beatles also helped popularise backwards recording with songs like Rain and I'm Only Sleeping. They had to physically flip the tape over to achieve the effect.
There was this one recording technique that pink floyd came up with at one point where David Gilmore accidentally plugged in his guitar into the wrong end of the Wah pedal out the other wrong end into an amp. When he turned up the tone and volume it made this extreme wailing spooky sound, which he then added onto the scariest part of Echoes.
At 3/20/25 06:37 PM, TobyMoon wrote:
Haha I never knew that and Revolver is probably my favourite album. Maybe not so bizarre anymore, but The Beatles also helped popularise backwards recording with songs like Rain and I'm Only Sleeping. They had to physically flip the tape over to achieve the effect.
There was this one recording technique that pink floyd came up with at one point where David Gilmore accidentally plugged in his guitar into the wrong end of the Wah pedal out the other wrong end into an amp. When he turned up the tone and volume it made this extreme wailing spooky sound, which he then added onto the scariest part of Echoes.
Haha that's great. Been a while since I've listened to some pink floyd, Echoes is a great song.
At 3/22/25 03:32 PM, TobyMoon wrote:
Haha that's great. Been a while since I've listened to some pink floyd, Echoes is a great song.
It is a great song! Another technique that I found that was pretty cool in progressive rock is having 2 guitar playing the riff but one riff has one extra beat making this hypnotizing phasing effect! You can here it in this part by frame by frame by king crimson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhreGZwiqNI
