Martin PopoffSocial Links Navigation Latest articles by Martin Popoff “Being an Engineer for Pink Floyd Was Arguably the Biggest Challenge I Ever Gave Myself”: Alan Parsons Takes Us Behind the Recording Sessions and Guitar Gear for ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ By Martin Popoff published 28 June 23 “They’re so sound oriented; they used the studio to the absolute maximum,” says the ‘Dark Side’ engineer Get The Pick NewsletterAll the latest guitar news, interviews, lessons, reviews, deals and more, direct to your inbox!Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsReceive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors LATEST ARTICLES1“I showed Paul McCartney my hollowbody guitar that I’d bought when I was in the army. He got a hollowbody after to get that tone." Why did the Beatles play Epiphone Casinos? It all comes back to one man2“I hadn’t been thinking about how I was going to perform ‘Stairway to Heaven’ live. That’s where the Double-Neck came in.” A more affordable Jimmy Page Double-Neck returns with uncanny accuracy, thanks to 3-D scanning3"Everyone who listened to them went out and started a band of their own." The new MC5 album took more than 50 years to arrive. Guitarist Wayne Kramer and his bandmates have passed on, but the celebration is just beginning 4"They said, 'Come over and play a couple of tracks.' That's what I did. And when I went to go, they said, 'Where are you going?!'" Jeff Beck tells Alice Cooper how he almost joined Pink Floyd and the Rolling Stones5"I took the top E string off. I originally wrote it on a guitar with four strings. I didn’t really know what I was doing’ ” John Rzeznik reveals how his odd alternate tuning resulted in a song that's reached 2 billion streams
“Being an Engineer for Pink Floyd Was Arguably the Biggest Challenge I Ever Gave Myself”: Alan Parsons Takes Us Behind the Recording Sessions and Guitar Gear for ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ By Martin Popoff published 28 June 23 “They’re so sound oriented; they used the studio to the absolute maximum,” says the ‘Dark Side’ engineer
