Wednesday, October 24, 2018
double your pleasure
cor, what a great tune
such crisp drumming, so much intricate space, that glistening luminous bassline, all the gorgeous little flickering riffs and FX,
sort of a funkatified Spirit maybe, or a proto-disco Zombies
but you know what is even better
take two copies of the same video
play one, and then cue the other to start with a delay
could be 10 seconds gap, or 40 seconds, or even a minute and half
it almost always sounds great
it's that old swirling or phasing trick that deejays would do, two copies of the same record on each deck
i've tried it before but i've never had the same degree of "it all sounds good" no matter what the delay factor is - usually you had to jiggle about a bit, pause the PLAY and restart after a second, do that a few times to get a pleasing effect, nudging it towards a nice phasing
but perhaps because of all the spaces in "Green Eyed Lady" - the definition in the way the drums have been recorded - the mirrored out of synch versions of the song seem to mesh easily more often
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I used to do this with tapes. I'd record 'Spoilt Victorian Child' onto two cassettes and play them simultaneously on my twin-tape boombox (a Sharp GF-555, inherited from my grandad - oh God how I miss it!)
Of course, the tapes played back at sightly different speeds (due to tape stretch or slight diffs in motor speed) so if you started the slower one first, the second would catch up and overtake, and you'd get that awesome slide into and out of a moment of perfect sync at the mid-point.
That there Sharp: http://oi43.tinypic.com/jl5edd.jpg
cool!
i got one Technic turntable but never got a second (or a mixer) so have never able to do the phasing / swirling thing
you can go further with the youtube clips and have 3, 4, or any number of them playing slightly out of synch. you can adjust the volume so that one is like a faint shadow of the other, as well as lagging behind it. the permutations are endless but the two clips slightly apart in time seems to be the most productive of pleasantness, generally speaking!
It's so easy to do, I'm surprised it hasn't been exploited more (or has it?) I reckon I'd have been all over this if it had been possible when I was a youngster.
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