overdub

- There was nobody else in the studio and it was an overdub and you wanted to try it alone?

An overdub has no choice

And I understood from the technology we were using that you could overdub one instrument while listening to the rest, and I said, "Oh!

He'd overdub and mix, of course.

My Sweet Lord must have taken about 12 hours to overdub the guitar solos.

- There was nobody else in the studio and it was an overdub and you wanted to try it alone?

An overdub has no choice

And I understood from the technology we were using that you could overdub one instrument while listening to the rest, and I said, "Oh!

He'd overdub and mix, of course.

My Sweet Lord must have taken about 12 hours to overdub the guitar solos.

- All those guitars and the keyboards are all overdubs.

All the Catholics stuff, that was all live to two-track, no overdubs.

And he said, "You know, let's do some overdubs "with a different guitar." Mmm-hmm.

But the, the layers of guitars, and the overdubs of vocals and then when I got to see the video, and you realised that Freddie Mercury was so charismatic and so unique.

Do some overdubs, and then, uh, off to Asia or Australia or...

- All those guitars and the keyboards are all overdubs.

All the Catholics stuff, that was all live to two-track, no overdubs.

And he said, "You know, let's do some overdubs "with a different guitar." Mmm-hmm.

But the, the layers of guitars, and the overdubs of vocals and then when I got to see the video, and you realised that Freddie Mercury was so charismatic and so unique.

Do some overdubs, and then, uh, off to Asia or Australia or...

As we went back and overdubbed, it was very difficult... for both and Krist and Dave to do the drums and bass, cos with no click track the timing was all over the place.

Everybody overdubbed everything and I'm going like, "Well.

Frank made a demo of his songs, and Bill took a tape and overdubbed backing vocals on it.

I think, after we'd cut the basic take, I wasn't happy with the sound, so we went back and overdubbed a clean sound on the intro with Kurt's vocal, as well as one, two, three, four, five guitars,

This is the B verse, one of the first vocals we overdubbed, it's the "hello, hello" section.

- It's just so excessive, you know, the way the vocals are all treated and things going off backwards, and god knows how much overdubbing and multi-tracking are...

- Lots of overdubbing.

Still didn't sound big enough for me, so we kept overdubbing guitars.

They weren't overdubbing a ton of stuff.

As we went back and overdubbed, it was very difficult... for both and Krist and Dave to do the drums and bass, cos with no click track the timing was all over the place.

Everybody overdubbed everything and I'm going like, "Well.

Frank made a demo of his songs, and Bill took a tape and overdubbed backing vocals on it.

I think, after we'd cut the basic take, I wasn't happy with the sound, so we went back and overdubbed a clean sound on the intro with Kurt's vocal, as well as one, two, three, four, five guitars,

This is the B verse, one of the first vocals we overdubbed, it's the "hello, hello" section.

- It's just so excessive, you know, the way the vocals are all treated and things going off backwards, and god knows how much overdubbing and multi-tracking are...

- Lots of overdubbing.

Still didn't sound big enough for me, so we kept overdubbing guitars.

They weren't overdubbing a ton of stuff.