oldwailer
1268 posts
Jun 06, 2010
10:55 AM
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This might be old news to some, but I just discovered that there is a good possibility that Robert Johnson records have been played up to 80% too fast for over 50 years!
This makes them sound different--to my ears, they are more listenable at the slower speeds. Anyway, here is a link to the article--you can judge it for yourself if you care, and even buy a CD of the slowed down Master Grandaddy of the Blues (Who actually learned a lot of his stuff from my other hero: Son House). . .
http://www.touched.co.uk/press/rjnote.html
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The Gloth
396 posts
Jun 06, 2010
11:12 AM
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Not very convincing to me.
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barbequebob
892 posts
Jun 06, 2010
11:36 AM
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Some of those recordings were purposely released at a faster speed on purpose and his aren't the only ones and that was for commercial purposes.
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isaacullah
994 posts
Jun 06, 2010
12:23 PM
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i don't know... the slowed down versions sounded, well, slowed down. the action of the guitar picking and the attack of the resultant notes was too slow to be "live". The normal versions, on the other hand, sound right to me, and not "sped up".
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nacoran
2013 posts
Jun 06, 2010
12:31 PM
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I think someone posted this the other day. I've done that on a couple tracks. The bass player couldn't keep up, so we sped the take up afterward figuring if we needed to play it live we'd get a faster bass player! With modern software you can shift speed independently of pitch.
edit: The article says to get the songs played the way they were recorded you slow the speed to 80% of the speed they are typically recorded, so you only slow the recording by 20%. I've shifted one recording my friend and I did by an octave. Using modern software we left the tempo alone, but if we did it with speed shifting that would be 50% speed. It's a great way for a guitar and a harmonica to sound like a bass and a sax. If you have access to an octave pitch shift that can work in real time it can be a much cheaper way to have low tuned sounding harps in your arsenal, without the difficult bends, maintenance issues and expense of low tuned harps. As long as you shift down exactly an octave it's pretty easy to not get confused by the different pitch coming out of the speaker. It's harder if you try other intervals.
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Last Edited by on Jun 06, 2010 12:40 PM
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