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Originally Posted by Welsh Anorak
However, in the world of pop music things are different. You could argue that Spector's work in the Sixties was a faithful reproduction as he tended to have the majority of the 'wrecking crew' in the studio at once, though of course different tracks were used. The same could be said of the classically trained George Martin, though he was quick to embrace new techniques.
Then producers like Joe Meek came along and treated the mixer and recorder as instruments in their own right
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As a matter of history Joe Meek did not come after Phil Spector. He was ten years older than Spector and had his first hit with Humphrey Lyttelton's "Bad penny blues" in 1956 in which he did things to the sound which Lyttelton thought "unnatural". He was, of course, the producer of "Telstar", only the second British no. 1 hit in the US charts (the first was Acker Bilk's "Stranger on the shore", believe it or not).