EastWest's Fab Four Virtual Instruments Collection

Fab Four Virtual Instruments

The 40th anniversary of the release of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" is a fitting time for EASTWEST to announce that its Fab Four Virtual Instruments is now in stock and ready for shipping. Just as the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" revolutionized the music world, today, EASTWEST is looking to influence the next generation of musicians. The result of more than a year of research, equipment acquisition and recording, Fab Four Virtual Instruments - unaffiliated with or endorsed by Apple Corps. Ltd. - presents a faithfully executed, incredibly accurate and comprehensive collection featuring the same kind of instruments and recording equipment used by the Beatles.

The Fab Four Virtual Instruments project involved several people intimately involved with the Beatles. Engineer Ken Scott, who worked on Beatles albums including A Hard Days Night, Help, Rubber Soul, Magical Mystery Tour, and The Beatles, engineered the recordings. Guitarist Laurence Juber and drummer Denny Seiwell, both of whom were members of Paul McCartney and Wings, played the same kind of instruments as those used by the Beatles.

No expense was spared in acquiring the equipment used to produce this collection. Much of that equipment, ironically, is now housed in EASTWEST Studio 3, where the Beach Boys' legendary Pet Sounds-the inspiration for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, according to Paul McCartney-was recorded.

Well over one million dollars' worth of rare period instruments - including authentic guitars, basses, drums, and keyboards - as well as amplifiers, microphones, recording consoles, outboard equipment and tape recorders were used in this production. Neumann, AKG, Cole and STC microphones as used at EMI/Abbey Road Studios were used to capture the sounds, while identical amplifiers, including a 1963 Voc AC30, 1967 Fender Showman and DeLuxe, 1963 Fender Bassman and Tan Showman, and 1966 Vox Defiant, 730 and 7120, were used with the electric guitars.

The same kind of recording desks and preamps, including a very rare EMI REDD tube desk, EMI TG12345 desk, and EMI REDD47 preamps, were used to record all instruments through Fairchild limiters and rare EMI RS124 modified Altec compressors, which were used for dynamics control. As with many of the Beatles' recording sessions, a Studer J-37 4-track tube tape machine was used to record everything.

Guitars - some costing over $200,000 (148,540) - played by Juber include a Gretsch Firebird (1959) and Tennessean (1963), Rickenbacker 360-12 (1965), Martin D-28 (1966), Fender Stratocaster (1956) and Telecaster (1951), Epiphone Casino (1965), and Gibson Les Paul Goldtop (1957), SG (1960) and J200 (1966). Juber also played Hofner (1963) and Rickenbacker (1964) basses, the same kind as Paul McCartney played on the Beatles' recordings. Guitars were sampled with up and down strokes, multiple velocities and picking styles, some with chords and effects.

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