Re: [Harp-L] Re: top 40 harp

[Joe and Cass Leone <leone@xxxxxxxx>]

When I said 'tool', I was referring to US...(giggle)  p.s. you high  
tech guys are too cool for me.
smo-joe

On Jun 1, 2007, at 10:34 AM, Slim Heilpern wrote:

> And there is so much more possible these days. In the old days,  
> they would often speed up a single to give it a brighter and more  
> energetic sound. Today, you can speed it up without raising the  
> pitch, or raise the pitch without speeding it up. In this case, the  
> producer could have, for instance, decided the song needed a bit of  
> excitement and done the modulation from Bb to B digitally -- after  
> the artists had already recorded it. Easy to do with today's software.
>
> Or, perhaps if B was causing trouble for the harmonica player  
> (seems unlikely in this case) the backing tracks could have been  
> lowered in pitch while he recorded the harmonica tracks, then all  
> the tracks brought back up to pitch.
>
> Anyway, once you have the tools to play around with pitch without  
> loosing much in the way of quality, there's very little the end  
> listener can assume ;-).
>
> - Slim.
>
> Joe and Cass Leone wrote:
> > I was thinking the same thing too. On both counts. I remember in  
> > the old days there were hardly any recordings that were right on  
> > pitch. I wrote this off to the times and the premise that all  
> > record players weren't exactly the same speed. Also, the recording  
> > studios could be off, BUT, I had this conspiracy friend who  
> > insisted that artists did this to PREVENT people from playing  
> > along and picking up their tricks. What a tool.
>
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