 The Beatles' new recording engineer on the project was nineteen-year-old Geoff Emerick, whom author and critic Ian MacDonald describes as an "English audio experimentalist" in the tradition of Joe Meek.Emerick recalled that no preproduction or rehearsal process took place for "Revolver"; instead, the band used the studio to create each song from what was often just an outline of a composition.Speaking shortly before the start of the sessions, Lennon said that they had considered making the album a continuous flow of tracks, without gaps to differentiate between each song.