Good article on Geoff Emerick

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http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/0 ... index.html

I really like the part:

In recording terms, engineering is much to producing as, in movies, cinematography is to directing, Emerick explains. The engineer takes direction from the producer and musicians as to the sound desired, helps pick out microphones, arranges their placement, plays with tone and timbre, makes sure technical specifications are correct and balances the instrumentation.

"I'm just hearing the sounds as basically colors and stuff in my mind, which is really blending tonalities together," he says. "You sort of play around and something sort of merges and complements -- one tone of one instrument might complement a tone of another sound and so forth."

Of course, you take all of this and say see Fletcher's quote