The Listening Booth at Abbey Road
In 1962, a fifteen-year-old named George Martin sat in the control room at Abbey Road Studios, learning to engineer sound. His mentor, Oscar Preuss, taught...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on 1 Samuel 3:1-10.
In 1962, a fifteen-year-old named George Martin sat in the control room at Abbey Road Studios, learning to engineer sound. His mentor, Oscar Preuss, taught him something counterintuitive: the most important skill in a recording studio is not playing an instrument or turning dials. It is learning to hear what is already in the room. "The music is there before you touch anything," Preuss told him.…
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