Mixing: All Things Must Pass by George Harrison

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

Friday 16 October 1970 was the penultimate mixing session for George Harrison’s third solo album All Things Must Pass.

Harrison had spent the first half of September overdubbing some songs at Trident Studios using their 16-track facilities. The songs worked on during that time were mixed in this final mixing period, from 10-17 October.

George and I would start right about 2.30, 3 o’clock every day. We take it to a certain point where we got comfortable with the mixing. And then Spector would come in and say, ‘Try a bit more of this, a bit more of that on there.’ And okay that’s it, and he’d go, and we’d finish it off. And George would go and we’d set up for the next day, the next title we’re going to do and it would be the same thing. Come in around 2.30, 3 o’clock, get the mix to where we were comfortable. Spector would come in, ‘Change this, change that,’ then, ‘Okay’ and then go, and we’d finish it off.