Editing Hey Jude (section)

===Mixing===
Scott, Martin and the Beatles mixed the finished recording at Abbey Road.<ref name="Hunt/MojoSpecial"/> The transfer of the Trident master tape to [[Acetate disc|acetate]] proved problematic due to the recording sounding murky when played back on EMI's equipment.<ref name="Hunt/MojoSpecial"/> The issue was resolved with the help of [[Geoff Emerick]],{{sfn|Riley|2011|p=408}} whom Scott had recently replaced as the Beatles' principal recording engineer.<ref>{{cite magazine |first=Damian |last=Fanelli |title=Abbey Road Engineer Ken Scott Discusses Recording the Beatles' White Album, Says Sessions Were a Blast |magazine=[[Guitar World]] |date=30 April 2012 |access-date=19 June 2015 |url=https://www.guitarworld.com/interview-abbey-road-engineer-ken-scott-discusses-recording-beatles-white-album-says-sessions-were-blast |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129065902/http://www.guitarworld.com/interview-abbey-road-engineer-ken-scott-discusses-recording-beatles-white-album-says-sessions-were-blast |archive-date=29 November 2014}}</ref> Emerick happened to be visiting Abbey Road,{{sfn|Riley|2011|pp=407–08}} having recently refused to work with the Beatles any longer, due to the tension and abuse that had become commonplace at their recording sessions.{{sfn|Lewisohn|1988|p=143}}{{sfn|Miles|2001|p=303}} A stereo mix of "Hey Jude" was then completed on 2 August and the mono version on 8 August.{{sfn|Everett|1999|p=195}}{{refn|group=nb|Writing in his 2006 memoir, Emerick says that "Obviously something at Trident had been misaligned", and the solution for "Hey Jude" was to add "massive amounts of treble [[Equalization (audio)|equalization]]".{{sfn|Emerick|Massey|2006|p=260}}}}

Musicologist [[Walter Everett (musicologist)|Walter Everett]] writes that the song's "most commented-on feature" is its considerable length, at 7:11.{{sfn|Everett|1999|p=192}} Like McCartney,{{sfn|Spizer|2003|p=32}} Martin was concerned that radio stations would not play the track because of the length, but Lennon insisted: "They will if it's us."<ref name="RS GreatestBeatlesSongs"/> According to [[Ken Mansfield]], Apple's US manager, McCartney remained unconvinced until Mansfield previewed the record for some American disc jockeys and reported that they were highly enthusiastic about the song.{{sfn|Spizer|2003|p=34}} "Hey Jude" was one second longer than [[Richard Harris]]'s recent hit recording of "[[MacArthur Park (song)|MacArthur Park]]",{{sfn|Du Noyer|1996|p=56}} the composer of which, [[Jimmy Webb]], was a visitor to the studio around this time.{{sfn|MacDonald|1998|p=266fn}} According to Webb, Martin admitted to him that "Hey Jude" was only allowed to run over seven minutes because of the success of "MacArthur Park".<ref>{{cite news |first=Dave |last=Simpson |title=How we made MacArthur Park |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=11 November 2014 |access-date=16 December 2014 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/nov/11/how-we-made-macarthur-park |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141217000242/http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/nov/11/how-we-made-macarthur-park |archive-date=17 December 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref>{{refn|group=nb|McCartney recalled that the Beatles had not planned for the coda to last four minutes, but he was "having such fun ad-libbing" that they kept the performance going.{{sfn|Sullivan|2013|p=117}}}} Pleased with the result, McCartney played an acetate copy of "Hey Jude" at a party held by [[Mick Jagger]], at Vesuvio's nightclub in central London, to celebrate the completion of [[the Rolling Stones]]' ''[[Beggars Banquet]]'' album. The song upstaged the Stones' album and, in author John Winn's description, "reportedly ruin[ed]" the party.{{sfn|Winn|2009|p=147}}

In the song's final bridge section, at 2:58, the spoken phrase "Fucking hell!" appears, uttered by Lennon.{{sfn|Womack|2014|p=391}} Scott admits that although he was told about it, he could not hear the words originally.<ref name="Hunt/MojoSpecial"/> [[Malcolm Toft]], the mix engineer on the Trident recording,<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Malcolm Toft: MTA & Trident |date=July 1994 |magazine=[[Sound on Sound]] |access-date=22 June 2015 |url=http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1994_articles/jul94/malcolmtoft.html |archive-date=22 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150622043908/http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1994_articles/jul94/malcolmtoft.html |url-status=live}}</ref> recalled that Lennon was overdubbing his harmony vocal when, in reaction to the volume being too loud in his headphones, he first called out "Whoa!" then, two seconds later, swore as he pulled the headphones off.{{sfn|Ryan|Kehew|2006|pp=488–89}}{{refn|group=nb|Toft adds: "because it had been bounced down [mixed] with the main vocal, it could not be removed. I just managed to bring the fader down for a split second on the mix to try to lessen the effect."{{sfn|Ryan|Kehew|2006|pp=488–89}}}} In his 2021 book ''[[The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present|The Lyrics]]'', however, McCartney recalls that he uttered the expletive (rather than Lennon) when he missed a piano chord.<ref>{{cite book |last=McCartney |first=Paul |title=The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present |date=2021 |publisher=Liveright |isbn=9781324091134 |page=283}}</ref>