Pink Floyd "Money" Loop Creation

Before ProTools, MPCs and Sony Acid, the options for sampling and looping forced musicians to be a little more creative, not with just their music, but the process of recording as well.  In this short excerpt from The Making of the Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd members discuss how the loop for “Money” was created.  First, each sound was recorded directly to tape, then the tape was physically cut into 7 pieces of equal length, one for each sound effect.  Those pieces of tape were spliced together, and the newly created roll of tape was fed into a Revox, and ran around a mic-stand.

and just for good measure, here is the original video of Pink Floyd – Money

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  1. Drumsynth on October 15, 2009 @ 1:48 am

    pretty incredible how far we have come. great video really made my night. thanks

  2. SBRECORDS on October 18, 2009 @ 4:18 am

    http://us.ent2.yimg.com/musicfinder.yahoo.com/images/yahoo/interscope/50cent/1102_50_cent_a.jpg

  3. ib on April 30, 2010 @ 10:44 am

    Damn thats creative man

    Now we’re becoming more lazy as producers with our sampling techniques

  4. Hip Hop Samples on February 22, 2011 @ 3:30 am

    That’s what you had to do in those days. If the Beatles had samplers they would have been doing it also. I agree the technology helps but makes us lazy at the same time.

  5. Mariano on February 11, 2012 @ 10:05 am

    Now I get it when everybody says a “loop”… That´s a GMF loop! A fkn’ tape loop!

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