Reduction mix
Mixing a recording down to fewer tracks to free space on the tape machine.
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Songs(79 of 81)
Thank You Girl
Harmonica overdubs added March 13
Help!
tracks combined to free space for more overdubs
I've Just Seen a Face
Four-track; two backing tracks
Rain
the reduction became take 8
Taxman
Multiple reductions to free tracks for overdubs across the three sessions
Yellow Submarine
She Said She Said
Reductions to free tracks for overdubs
I Want to Tell You
take 3 reduced into take 4
For No One
tracks combined to free space for more overdubs, on four-track tape
I'm Only Sleeping
tracks combined to free space for more overdubs, on four-track tape
Love You To
Take 6 reduced to take 7 for overdubs
Here, There and Everywhere
Take 13 was reduced to take 14 on 17 June 1966 to free tracks for overdubs
And Your Bird Can Sing
Reduction mix to free tracks for vocal and guitar overdubs
Good Day Sunshine
Reduction to free tracks for vocal overdubs
Got to Get You into My Life
Reduction mixes between overdub sessions
Doctor Robert
Reduction mix on April 19 to free tracks for overdubs
Tomorrow Never Knows
Multiple reductions across April 6 and 22 sessions
Penny Lane
Keyboard tracks bounced on Dec 30; further reductions
Strawberry Fields Forever
Getting Better
With a Little Help from My Friends
Lovely Rita
Bounced for further overdubs
Good Morning Good Morning
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
A Day in the Life
Reduction mixes to combine four orchestra passes
Within You Without You
Indian instruments reduced before string overdubs
When I'm Sixty-Four
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
tracks combined to free space for more overdubs
She's Leaving Home
tracks combined to free space for more overdubs, on four-track tape
Fixing a Hole
tracks combined to free space for more overdubs
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Baby, You're a Rich Man
tracks combined to free space for more overdubs
All You Need Is Love
Take 10 from Olympic was transferred to a new four-track tape with the four backing instruments mixed to one
I Am the Walrus
Take 17 → take 20 → take 25
Hello, Goodbye
Blue Jay Way
tracks combined to free space for more overdubs
The Fool on the Hill
Reduction mixes between takes
Magical Mystery Tour
Multiple track reductions to free up tape for overdubs
Your Mother Should Know
Flying
Lady Madonna
Hey Jude
Bounced from 4-track at EMI for transfer to Trident 8-track
Revolution
tracks combined to free space for more overdubs, on four-track tape
Cry Baby Cry
Long, Long, Long
67 rhythm-track takes; reduction mixes
Sexy Sadie
Don't Pass Me By
Revolution 1
Take 18 reduced for overdubs
Mother Nature's Son
Take 24 → Take 26 reduction
Back in the U.S.S.R.
Birthday
Four-track bounced to eight-track for overdubs
I'm So Tired
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Recorded on 4-track then bounced to 8-track
Rocky Raccoon
tracks combined to free space for more overdubs, on four-track tape
Why Don't We Do It in the Road?
tracks combined to free space for more overdubs, on four-track tape
Yer Blues
tracks combined to free space for more overdubs, on four-track tape
Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
tracks combined to free space for more overdubs, on four-track tape
Hey Bulldog
tracks combined to free space for more overdubs, on four-track tape
It's All Too Much
tracks combined to free space for more overdubs, on four-track tape
Only a Northern Song
Four-track reductions to free space for overdubs
Old Brown Shoe
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Here Comes the Sun
Something
Two reduction mixes
She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
Because
Carry That Weight
Sun King
Oh! Darling
The End
Maxwell's Silver Hammer
tracks combined to free space for more overdubs
You Never Give Me Your Money
tracks combined to free space for more overdubs
Polythene Pam
tracks combined to free space for more overdubs
Golden Slumbers
tracks combined to free space for more overdubs
Come Together
Reduction from 4-track to 8-track
Across the Universe (Wildlife version)
take 7 reduced into take 8, on four-track tape
Let It Be
tracks combined to free space for more overdubs
I Me Mine
tracks combined to free space for more overdubs
Across the Universe
take 7 reduced into take 8, on four-track tape
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