While grabbing dinner in the band's car we had made a cassette rough mix of the song and sure enough the cassette player played the song back a little bit fast. All of a sudden the vibe was there, and we had the tempo we initially wanted with the vocal in sync to it and an even more on-fire performance than we ever hard before. This was still in the days when I was making records on tape, so we simply mixed the song and then would speed up the tape machine a bit and listen back and tweak the mix until it sounded right, since the faster tape speed would take a way some bottom end. Now of course, this is as simple as dropping a time stretching plug-in on the whole mix and you are ready to go. No matter how you get there, every once in a while you will find yourself working on a great song that's missing just a bit energy. Giving it a bump of a quarter of a semitone or two tempo steps can sometimes really make the difference between a good and a great feeling track. Add it to your toolbox.
The Power Of Varispeed To Save Your Song's Energy
While grabbing dinner in the band's car we had made a cassette rough mix of the song and sure enough the cassette player played the song back a little bit fast. All of a sudden the vibe was there, and we had the tempo we initially wanted with the vocal in sync to it and an even more on-fire performance than we ever hard before. This was still in the days when I was making records on tape, so we simply mixed the song and then would speed up the tape machine a bit and listen back and tweak the mix until it sounded right, since the faster tape speed would take a way some bottom end. Now of course, this is as simple as dropping a time stretching plug-in on the whole mix and you are ready to go. No matter how you get there, every once in a while you will find yourself working on a great song that's missing just a bit energy. Giving it a bump of a quarter of a semitone or two tempo steps can sometimes really make the difference between a good and a great feeling track. Add it to your toolbox.
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