[Geoff]

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Julien BH wrote:


WHen I hear tracks by the Beatles such as I am the Walrus I can't help
but think it wasn't about the preamp. Was it through a cranked guitar
amp?

According to Geoff Emerick, it was the console preamps being intentionally
overloaded as an effect. Being 1967, it would have been a tube console.

Naa. It would have had to be a valve console. REDD whatever.

geoff