Recreating a sound from a Beatles recording......

[RAMI]

the ones you get when you rub the rim of a wineglass with a wet fingertip.

I think they got the same sound from rubbing Yoko with a wet fingertip.

 

[Lt. Bob]

Possibly true.
That song, like many of the period, had the "psychadelic awakening" vibe, so they certainly fall into a pretty specific slot, no different than say...Doo-wop music.

Though I think "Tomorrow Never Knows" might be cool today, as there is a lot of retro appeal. Maybe done without as much "trippy" flavor, and with more of a Rock edge....the song's message could fit into a lot of time periods.

yeah .... tastes on the forums are pretty standardized nowadays as to what people think a recording should be.
Panning is usually 'panned' for instance.

 

[rayc]

TKN was done brilliantly by manzanera & eno et al on 801 Live.
I'm a suckere for reverb and panning spacial effects affect me.

 

[Capt.Ron]

It's funny....some of the analog tape folks say they get these noises all the time when they're doing stuff with their recorders I'm still working on it......not giving up.....

 

[grimtraveller]

Did you know that seagulls in Australia make a different noise to UK seagulls?

Did you know that London is full of seagulls where there's no sea at all. They've developed a taste for the high life.

GrimTraveller will know the exact breed

Down on holiday at a place called Camber Sands over the same weekend that Serena Williams blitzed her way to victory at Wimbledon and Andy Murray lost to old Roger, I noticed that there were two particular kinds of seagulls. They each had very distinctive shapes and one kind had a wicked looking crooked beak. They were more into fish than Beatles though........

and possibly names of all the seagulls involved....

Stan, Lucy, Georgio, Arturo and Schmebuloch. My sources are impeccable.

Ok, ok, so that was crap !

Are you sure they aren't French seagulls that flew across the English Channel just for this one recording session?

They got there late and the song was already finished ! And the Stones didn't do backing vocals in the spring of '66. So they flew off to Birmingham and made noises for the mellotron instead.........

They go into pretty good detail about the recording of "Tomorrow...." in the Anthology.

In the anthology book, they talk alot about it but they don't once mention what any of the sounds actually are, only that they were superimposed over and over on themselves and distorted, reversed, sped up and slowed down. George Harrison says "they were put through the board onto a different fader and mixed. Those seagulls are just weird noises". Paul McCartney says "I always think of seagulls when I hear it. I used to get alot of seagulls in my loops; a speeded up shout, hah ha, goes squawk squawk." In his brilliant book "Revolution in the head", the late Ian McDonald says the seagull sound was a loop of McCartney laughing. But George Martin reckons it's the one Beatle song that could never be reproduced exactly the same because it was so random with different sounds coming in at different times, speeds, lengths, volumes and with no rhyme nor reason so to the OP - forget it !

 

[Armistice]

LOL... wondered when you'd find this one GT!

Incidentally, English seagulls are about twice the size of the Australian ones... at least the ones I've seen at places like Brighton etc.... they're monsters. Wouldn't want to fight them over a chip...

 

[grimtraveller]

LOL... wondered when you'd find this one GT!

I've been doing the tours of secondary schools lately as my son moves up in September so I've been a bit scarce. Also, I spent two weeks on planet mellotron. Very informative.

Incidentally, English seagulls are about twice the size of the Australian ones... at least the ones I've seen at places like Brighton etc.... they're monsters. Wouldn't want to fight them over a chip...

And when they, ahem, 'spot' you, you stay spotted !
Funnilly enough, during the summer, my kids and I watched "The birds" which I hadn't seen in years. I'm glad we'd had our holiday before it was on !!

 

[Steenamaroo]

Incidentally, English seagulls are about twice the size of the Australian ones... at least the ones I've seen at places like Brighton etc.... they're monsters. Wouldn't want to fight them over a chip...

That's where I studied. Man those things are loud, and massive!