On Wed, 28 Jun 2006
tronbros@... wrote:
> Now here's one for you and we'd welcome your comments...................
>
> Just recently we have been asked to tune up original recordings. One
> instance was the MKII Flute and the other was the MKII Brass. Both these
> recordings are amongst the most popular ever in the Mellotron Song Book.
>
> As a policy we never mess as we hold to the opinion that all our favourite
> albums were made with the sounds as they were originally recorded. However,
> the tuned up versions sounded fantastic and even seasoned pedantic bastards
> like us agreed that it was wonderful not to have to find chord inversions to
> avoid THAT NOTE!
it goes without saying, but i'll say it anyway:
this does NOT mean killing off the old recordings - just making an
alternative "clean" version available.
this of course depends on the methods used.
i think we can all count on streetly doing it right, as they
always do.
further, i think the relative success of the "new" recordings is
evidence that they will "do it right".
i imagine that the question is being posed for the purpose of seein
if this will be financially feasible for the return on the enourmous
effort that will be required to do this. from the responses so far
it seems to be a VERY resounding YES - PLEASE DO THIS.
out of technical curiosity, and without revealing any trade secrets,
just how would you be accomplishing this?
i recommend using the engineer responsible for a certain CHER track
from a couple years back.
you could not detect the autocorrect pitch shifting at all.
really. they MEANT to do that ;0) ...or did they? see:
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2005/11/03/lets-kill-the-cher-believe-autotune-myth-forever-or-not/but seriously, just how would you be doing this?
...jeff [aka "redunzl"]
> Talking with Woolly Wolstenholme, he says that half his time was spent
> trying to find smooth chordal progressions that kept in tune as best as possible
> and he had favourite notes in the M300A violins that he tried to always avoid.
>
> There are so many dire notes amongst the recordings that you become over
> aware of when making tapes and the temptation is to fix the buggers. So what do
> you think about altering history even if the end result makes things a lot
> easier to use?
>
> Best,
>
> Martin
>
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