🎄 Holidays! THE OFFICIAL REVIEW: [Album] "CHRISTMAS PORTRAIT" SP-4726

[Rick-An Ordinary Fool]

I don’t remember seeing or reading this article, pretty cool about the making of Merry Christmas Darling. Richard’s direct words here.
I’m curious about this rough mix Karen and Richard played to Frank Pooler on a 16 track tape machine.

@Chris May, What does Richard mean by rough mix? How would this mix have sounded any different than the final completed mix we know of today?

 

[Chris May]

I don’t remember seeing or reading this article, pretty cool about the making of Merry Christmas Darling. Richard’s direct words here.
I’m curious about this rough mix Karen and Richard played to Frank Pooler on a 16 track tape machine.

@Chris May, What does Richard mean by rough mix? How would this mix have sounded any different than the final completed mix we know of today?

What he’s saying here is, because they (likely) hadn’t officially mixed the recording yet, they set up the faders on the console in more of a general fashion so that Frank could hear the playback straight off of the master tape. It would have been a rough mix vs. the eventual final mix.

 

[Rick-An Ordinary Fool]

So would Richard and Karen’s vocals on the rough mix be the exact same as the final mix? Or would they have been 2 different vocals?

The vocals that Frank heard that night at A&M studios, they were rough vocal takes or the final version vocals?

 

[Chris May]

According to the article, he heard the master (final) lead vocal take.