Mixing: All Things Must Pass by George Harrison

Trident Studios, St Anne’s Court, London
Producer: George Harrison
Engineers: Ken Scott, Dave Corlet

Saturday 12 September 1970 was a mixing session for George Harrison’s third solo album All Things Must Pass.

Harrison produced overdub sessions at London’s Trident Studios from 3-11 September, as it had 16-track recording facilities. The album’s co-producer Phil Spector was not present for these sessions.

I took ten or eleven of the tracks to try in the studio off Wardour Street, put them onto sixteen-track, ’cause at that time Abbey Road only had eight tracks. And of those tracks, then we overdubbed the ones that turned into the most noisy tracks on the album like ‘What Is Life’, ‘Let It Down’, and ‘Awaiting On You All’, ‘Wah-Wah’, all those ones that have big noise. So those tracks were done in Trident, mixed in Trident and the others remained as just eight tracks.

With the overdubs complete, Harrison and engineer Ken Scott made rough mixes of the songs on this day, before work resumed at Abbey Road on 6 October.

George knew what he wanted to do. It was all these massive backing vocals, which were, in the most part, just him. And it was putting down a whole bunch of parts, bouncing them to a track, putting down a whole bunch of others, and just piecing together all of this amazing music.