Let It Be was recorded largely at the Beatles' own Apple Studios, using borrowed REDD valve consoles from EMI after the designer Magic Alex (Alex Mardas) failed to come up with a suitable desk for the studio. The Beatles' album Abbey Road, was the only one to be recorded using a transistorised mixing console, the EMI TG12345, rather than the earlier REDD valve consoles. In 1968 eight-track recorders became available, but Abbey Road was somewhat slow in adopting the new technology and a number of Beatles tracks (including " Hey Jude") were recorded in other studios in London to get access to the new eight-track recorders. The first two Beatles albums, Please Please Me and With The Beatles, were recorded on the BTR two-track machines with the introduction of four-track machines in 1963 (the first 4-track Beatles recording was " I Want to Hold Your Hand" ) there came a change in the way recordings were made-tracks could be built up layer by layer, encouraging experimentation in the multitrack recording process. ![]() When recording on the twin-track machine there was very little opportunity for overdubbing the recording was essentially that of a live music performance. The BTR was a twin-track, valve-based machine. ![]() ![]() In the early part of the 1960s, EMI's Abbey Road Studios was equipped with EMI-made British Tape Recorders (BTR) which were developed in 1948, as copies of German wartime recorders.
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