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Engineering The Sound: Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon

Produced by Happy Mag: https://happymag.tv/ Find out more: https://happymag.tv/engineering-the-s... It’s hard to think of an album more celebrated and universally lauded than Dark Side of the Moon. Released on the 1st of March, 1973, Dark Side was Pink Floyd’s eighth studio album in just over six years. On previous efforts, Pink Floyd had delved into crafting long, drawn-out musical suites – perhaps most notably on their 1971 album Meddle, which included the 23-minute long epic Echoes. Soon after the release of Meddle, the four members of Pink Floyd - bassist Roger Waters, guitarist David Gilmour, keyboardist Richard Wright and drummer Nick Mason - convened at Mason’s home to discuss a blueprint for another album - an album that would catapult the prog-rock band into the history books. Expanding on what they had achieved with Echoes, Pink Floyd toyed with the idea of creating a concept album – a series of songs that bled into each other, all the while dealing with the madness and pressures of their rock 'n' roll lifestyle. Over the next year, the band toured extensively across Europe, Japan and the US during which they crafted tracks such as Breathe and On The Run – albeit featuring very different arrangements to their final recordings, and by early 1972, Pink Floyd were ready to record. The band opted to record their new material at Abbey Road Studios in London, working with engineer Alan Parsons whose previous works included The Beatles’ Abbey Road and Let It Be. The band chose the world-renowned studio as it was home to, at the time, some of the most advanced recording technology ever produced – including the EMI TG12345 mixing console. In contrast to the 8 and even 4-track recording systems Pink Floyd had used in past, the EMI TG12345 was able to work with up to 16 different tracks at once. This whole new arsenal of potential tracks opened many doors for the band; it not only meant that they could inject more instruments and sound effects into their songs, they could experiment with double-tracking vocals and guitar lines, greatly enhancing their already outstanding ability to create lush soundscapes. One of the hallmark qualities of the LP is the way the tracks bleed into each other, with Parsons opting to execute this in a rather unconventional method. Instead of editing the tracks during the final mastering process, Parsons performed the edits right onto the master recording, carefully arranging the pieces of the musical puzzle and splicing the tapes together. In a 2007 interview with Premier Guitar, Parsons divulged what it was like working with Pink Floyd on Dark Side of the Moon: “The band members were experienced in the studio. They arguably were the most technically minded band out there. They knew what a recording studio was capable of, and they took full advantage. And they worked me hard—they always worked their engineers hard to push the barriers.” #pinkfloyd #darksideofthemoon