It was a time-consuming process, and a waste of a valuable track on the tape machine. “One night we had been double-tracking Paul’s voice by sending a track down to the studio via cans (headphones) and him singing over his own voice. This allowed the delayed vocal to be combined with the normal vocal, creating the double tracked effect without having to use up a track on the 4 track recorder. This signal was then routed from the playback head of the second machine to a separate channel on the mixer. An oscillator was used to vary the speed of the “tape echo”, providing more or less tape delay depending on how fast or slow the second machine was run relative to the first. The vocal track was routed from the recording head of the multitrack tape, which sat before the playback head, which fed the record head of the second tape recorder. Townsend’s system added a second tape recorder when mixing a song. Townsend realized that, if you took two identical tracks and played back with one of them slightly out of sync, the sound image would alter and widen, just like manual double tracking. Townsend came up with a system using tape delay, since they were already in use for echoes and were applied during the mixdown.
The effect is created when you sing the track with the original and because, no matter how good you are, you can never exactly duplicate the original, those small variations create a full doubled sound. But if you play two copies of the same performance in perfect sync, the two tracks become one and no double tracking effect is produced. By recording and blending of two different takes of the same part creates a fuller, or chorused effect with double tracking. The problem they were faced with is, it is nearly impossible for a musician to sing or play the same part in exactly the same way twice. He wanted an alternative that did not require so much time and effort. I tended to be very time consuming and used up a valuable track on the 4 track recorder. John Lennon hated the tedium of recording doubled vocals to get that double tracked sound during the recording sessions. The Original ADT was invented specially for the Beatles during the spring of 1966 by Ken Townsend, a recording engineer employed at EMI’s Abbey Road Studios, at the request of John Lennon.
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