Queen in studio: how did they record the songs, takes and demos

As for recording drop in's on the backing track after the backing track was recorded. I doubt that this was ever done.

From what I've learned from listening to Queen takes is that they quit when someone made a big mistake... For example in take 2 of March of the Black Queen Freddie plays a wrong chord so they stop and start over again. and again and again... till they get it right.

For small mistakes.. They would keep the take if it got the right feel and so on. On some songs you can hear little mistakes on bass, piano and drums (check Borhap for some piano and drum mistakes!) It would stay in the take... As brian said it "In those days the take was the take"

What else I can say, Fr(i)ed - I love your full answers. Now I understand!

Bo Rhapsody?! At what second?

And, Fr(i)ed, if you have a band I would like to listen to your music.

Borhap has some piano mistakes in the Opera bit. And also the snare comes in a bit late at the second (i think!) Bismillah part


Yeah I have a band. Do you have msn or icq? or an e-mail address :P so I can send you something

Ha! I will listen to Bo Rhap.

Yes of course, please send to thegem@mail.ru or icq 230614645

Have no patience to listen to something from you! You seem to be very serious guy :-)

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]FriedChicken<br><font size=1>The Almighty</font> wrote: [/QUOTENAME]One signal through DI (so straight from the guitar. One signal from the amp, and one signal from the microphone in front of the bass amp[/QUOTE]

Actually, wasn't it one from a monitor speaker as well as the amp mic'd up and the DI?

Peace,
Adam.

I would really like to know where to get these tracks of takes and studio stuff... I LOVE that kind of thing. Where did you guys get this stuff?

As a home studio guy, I can't get enough technical notes on Queen's studio days.

You can learn a lot from that through documentaries. Although some of them do have several mistakes, as their memory fails ocassionally. For instance, John didn't record Best Friend using a Rhodes, and Brian didn't use a George Formby ukelele-banjo on Good Company.

what is used on YMBF? It sounds like a Rhodes to me. Maybe a Wurlitzer? Those were the main electric pianos of the day.

It's always better than guessing i'd say.

Anyway.. brian didn't say he used a George Formby on Good Company.. He just said that the idea for Good Company came from learning to play on that george formby ukelele

I have most of the documentaries, but there seems to be a wealth of info not on the public docu's.

Studio takes? Session notes? Stuff like that. I realize Queen didn't leave a lot of that stuff, but there's got to be some that isn't in the documentaries.

ofcourse there is :D

> He just said that the idea for Good Company came from learning to play on that george formby ukelele

Good point. Sorry.

And yes, Best Friend's piano is a Wurly.

During QUEEN II they had 16-track (and 24-track?) machines. It is safe to asume that they would use approximately half of them just for a backing track.