If you’re like me, music is something you listen to, and occasionally butcher on Karaoke night at the local watering hole. The actual making of recorded music is just something you take for granted. It’s one of those things that sounds simple, but actually is fairly complex. The video below is an extract from a BBC special that analyzed an iconic Beatles recording from the original tracks cut at the studio. You get a sense of how the various instruments and vocals are recorded and mixed. It’s pretty cool, and even more interesting when you consider that this was from four decades ago. The digital effects and mixing of today’s music is way more complex than this. It also makes it kind of amazing that hearing a band in concert sounds much at all like the album.