Revolver Entry

The Beatles before the album "Revolver" was already big and famous around the world. But this album reached and blew everyone expectations and still happening. Before this album The Beatles were producing more rock pop style music. With this album they went more psychedelic and used some crazy sounds and effects on the album.

The Beatles used different influence while producing this album and one of their biggest was the LSD that is why this album is very psychedelic, not only on the music aspect but in the lyrics too. The Beatles used their studio as an instrument while producing this album. This creates an effect and a cool reverb that gave that feel while they recorded the songs.

In the album "Revolver" The Beatles innovate some sounds effects and new feels to the tracks. The reverse guitar was one of their new sound effects that they use in multiple tracks of the album and gave that cool psychedelic feel to the song. Apart from these, they processed the lead vocal. They used some pre-recorded loops and they double the vocals to give a new feel that sounded great in The Beatles.

This album as a listener gives me some good impression and made me want to listen the album for the rest of my life. This album is well produced, recorded and mixed. As an industry professional this album serves for me as a big inspiration in many ways and how it was mixed, giving me multiple ideas for when I have the opportunity to do my own.

Pet Sounds Entry

The Beach Boys "Pet Sounds" album was one of the most enjoyable they made. When they made this album they use as an influence their competition The Beatles. Before this album the Beach Boys weren't a huge famous band, but when they released this album it broke the expectation of everyone.

Brian Wilson was the leader/songwriter of The Beach Boys. He had an important role in the band but he covered it well. Brian Wilson had different influence when he wrote this album. He used "The Beatles" as an influence when he wrote the songs of the album "Pet Sounds". Apart from The Beatles, Brian Wilson biggest influence was Phil Spector. With him they made that album sound how it sounded. Phil Spector's wall of sound made "Pet Sounds" one of the most influential pop album ever released.

In this album Brian Wilson used the Electro-Theremin as an instrument and gave a different feeling and that innovating sound that everyone liked. Apart from this, Brian Wilson recorded the songs in different studios because he said that with that he was getting a different feeling for the song. Since The Beach Boys are more like a surfer pop band when I heard this album it reminds me back home "Puerto Rico", because I used to surf and it gave me that beach surfing good times.

From a listener point of view this album was great and made a lot of minds to go and follow their career this album was so great that changed the music history. As an industry professional I would say that this album was their best ever produced, but they leaned and used The Beatles as a big influence while producing this album but probably that is why it made it that good.

Reference

http://soundcloud.com/chrispyspears/brian-wilson-podcast

http://www.prx.org/pieces/15368-everything-was-right-the-beatles-revolver

http://web.me.com/fullsailmh2/Music_History_Repository/Additional_Resources_-_Pet_Sounds.html

http://web.me.com/fullsailmh2/Music_History_Repository/Additional_Resources_-_Revolver.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Wilson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiësto

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1451495/bio

Welcome Entry

Greetings,

I'm Jose Toledo born and raised in Puerto Rico. Moved to Orlando to go to Full Sail University and study Recording Arts. I have being always into the music industry since I was a little kid. Right now I'm following Electronic music and Reggaeton. After I graduate I want to work in a studio and record artist and be a mixing engineer.