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There was a much better drum sound on the later albums when they started using more mics.
From "Revolver" onwards I'd say. The drum sound got better, new technology and studio techniques were utilized and Ringo's playing became more inventive, a little less straightforward. That was the case for all of them actually. Not so much the songs, but the arrangements they were coming up with demanded a different approach to the drums.
An interesting thing happened in early 1968, just before the Beats went to India, but before John and Yoko became an item. They were recording "Hey Bulldog" and Lennon had invited Ono to the session. Afterwards, she asked him why they always used the same beat in their songs and because he knew about her avant garde leanings, he said he was really embarrassed at the simplicity of their music compared to many in
the avant garde or harder edged rock realms. A few months later, when they came to record the White album, Lennon's songs were full of challenging rhythms that called for new kinds of drum patterns and really pushed Ringo and all this, added to George Harrison's already different beat structure {Indian} and Paul McCartney's insistence on doing some of the drumming himself, may have contributed to Ringo quitting the band during the recording of the album.
Even into 1969 when the last two albums were recorded, the odd rhythms carried on.
however the early albums had a great drum sound for the time compared to some of the other recordings around the place.
Charlie Watts, Bobby Graham and Keith Moon were all better drummers in many ways but their respective bands weren't recorded as well as EMI recorded the Beatles, especially the Stones whose recordings I always thought were pretty tame, unlike their songs, many of which were mega. Because EMI's engineers like Norman Smith were really conscientious about capturing clean and pristine sounds, they made sure the drums weren't relegated to just some background filler sound. They still sound good, now.
