Saturday, April 14, 2018

"Maxwell's Silver Hammer" Final Recording and Mixing

Back on July 11 1969, overdubs for "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" were recorded by adding some extra vocals at the very end of the song singalong. There was also an electric guitar added during the chorus part as well as the end part.
Paul McCartney had decided to add a Moog keyboard part to the final verse of the song so he went in on August 06 and played the part during a reduction mix with take 27 being the one used. This left the task of mixing the song. All songs on "Abbey Road" were given stereo mixes (no true mono mixes exist). The only "mono" pressings are all fold down mixes with a lot of the releases in South America.
"Maxwell's Silver Hammer" was mixed in stereo on both August 06 and August 12 1969. Interestingly, the entire song and the final verse were separately mixed and the tape (with the Moog) spliced onto the rest of the song. Finally, on August 25 1969, the four bar instrumental introduction was removed by editing and the song starts cold into the first verse with Paul's vocal.

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