When the experimentation (and later the bickering within the group) began, was it more fun than tedium?
No, it wasn’t tedious, because it gave us time to experiment on things. Why are the Beatles records better in mono? Because we used to monitor those tracks mono, again England was behind the times as far as stereo was concerned. And it was only when we were trying to record the Abbey Road’ album that we actually were monitoring in stereo and giving it some consideration. We used to monitor from one loud speaker, which was the right-hand speaker, although it was left and right, but it was to one on the right. And it was all balanced and EQ-ed and monitored on one loud speaker for mono. It used to take a long, long time, if John was playing guitar and George was playing guitar on a track together to get the distinctive sounds of each of those guitars to speak properly out of one sound source. What were the benefits to the Beatles having the run of the place? It was a nice way of working, a luxury because no other bands were working like that. It was a unique situation at that time becaus
