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Old 27th July 2012   #1
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Beatles Hey Bulldog Mic
what mic are they using in this video? and how did they sing like that...

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i have to just say this song as well as many other beatles songs are an anomaly or a phenomenon of music somehow. The sound is so natural. there's a commonality that touches everyone. at least me...anyway yeah what mic is it? cool pop filter.
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what mic are they using in this video? and how did they sing like that...

The Beatles - Hey Bulldog 1080p [HD] - YouTube

i have to just say this song as well as many other beatles songs are an anomaly or a phenomenon of music somehow. The sound is so natural. there's a commonality that touches everyone. at least me...anyway yeah what mic is it? cool pop filter.
Looks like a Neumann U47 to me.
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Yeah, U47 or U48
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ADT ON VOCALS makes it sound super!
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ADT ON VOCALS makes it sound super!
What's ADT?
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If I could only be there...it's really great!great mic. Great performance....I want one mic like that someday!
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What's ADT?
It's that home security company, that monitors for break ins, fire etc. I hear they are now offering "HELP! ...I've fallen and can't get up!!!" type services now as well. For geezers like myself that is.


Seriously, it stands for "automatic double tracking".

I've also heard:
AutoMATED double tracking...and

artificial double tracking as well

Ken Townshend @ Abbey Road came up with it to simplify the tedious process of doubling vocal tracks.

Involves a 20-50ms delay, a VCO at a freq around 1 hz or under, with a depth of 40% or so, and usually no feedback.

Mix to taste w/ original signal, usually the dry out front.

Much more difficult in those days than with DAWs today, but theirs sounded about a million times better.

I still like real doubles myself, the ADT was a big part of at least Lennon's sound.

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ADT=Automatic Double Tracking (an Abby Road exclusive technique).
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ADT=Automatic Double Tracking (an Abby Road exclusive technique).
Lennon was great at double tracking vocals...really great! That mic was lucky...
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Thanks, John. Nice explanation
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This ihas become one of my fave Beatles songs and actually I haven't really heard it till about 2 years ago or so.

Priceless footage of the setup they used at Abbey Road!

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Theres a nice little freebie plug thats does the ADT trick. Cant remember the name though and Im at the beach now so cant check. Bit I learned about it here on GS. Do a search
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You mean (( vacuumsound )) ?
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Most all of Abbey Roads' vocal mics for the Beatles were U48's although they also had several original U47's converted to fig. of 8 pattern so there were some long body U47's with a Beatle on each side of em. The mic in the vid is a U48.
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I didn't look at the clip, but the Beatles often used the U-48, which is a figure of 8 mic, allowing the singers to sing facing each other.
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U48 with spit screen, cardioid polar pattern.
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