Flanging/phasing

Phase-shift effect produced by mixing a signal with a slightly delayed copy of itself.

songs

It was used on three recordings, 'Magical Mystery Tour', McCartney's, 'Blue Jay Way' (applied extensively across the track), and 'Sexy Sadie', Lennon's, from 1967 to 1968, sung by Paul, by George and by John respectively, split between the Magical Mystery Tour album and The Beatles (The White Album), cut 25 April 1967, 6 September 1967 and 19 July 1968. Ken Scott engineered three of them, with Geoff Emerick on 'Blue Jay Way' and 'Magical Mystery Tour'. On 'Sexy Sadie': heavy flanging on McCartney's piano in the reduction mix of 21 August 1968. On 'Magical Mystery Tour' it was added to Harrison's guitar and to the piano over the coda during reduction mixing.

The rarest studio technique choices in the catalogue: AI vocal extraction (1), Noise reduction (3), and Flanging/phasing (3).

Analysis

Song count per year

% of each member's catalogue with this tag (by writing credit)

Early0 · 0%

Mid-period2 · 67%

Late1 · 33%

Software

Waves Abbey Road Reverb Plates

Waves Audio

Software

iZotope RX / Ozone / Neutron

iZotope

Course

Timbaland – Teaches Producing and Beatmaking

MasterClass · Modern production – contrasts with Beatles/Martin studio innovations.

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Year

Album

Writer

Lead vocal(s)

#	Title	Year	Album	Lead Vocal(s)	Notes
1	Magical Mystery Tour	1967	Magical Mystery Tour	Paul	Added to Harrison's guitar and to the piano over the coda during reduction mixing
2	Blue Jay Way	1967	Magical Mystery Tour	George	Applied extensively across the track
3	Sexy Sadie	1968	The Beatles (The White Album)	John	Heavy flanging on McCartney's piano in the reduction mix of 21 August 1968