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| From | "Robert Sutliff" <Rsutliff@columbus.rr.com> |
| Subject | Re: Let It Be |
| Date | Tue, 25 Nov 2003 16:14:31 -0500 |
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I decided to listen to the three versions I've got of this stuff and
actually take notes. First of all, I think Antare Auto tune was used a lot
on the new Naked release but it's most apparent on Two Of Us. The take of
Two Of Us on Naked is obviously the same one used on the Spector mixed Let
It Be. On the Spector mix Paul and John sing beautifully together harkening
back to earlier cuts when they easily evoked the spirit of Don and Phil
Everly. However, they sing just a tiny bit flat (together I should add) in
places. This doesn't bug me one bit - it's almost like it's on purpose. On
the Naked release every single vocal, lead and close harmony is perfectly in
tune. One thing that Auto Tune will do is remove subtle nuance in vocals as
it renders each note perfect. The absolute best way to use Auto Tune is just
to fix the off notes that need it, not effect the whole performance like on
Naked. The sound on Naked is better than either the original Glyn Johns
mixed Get Back or the Spector Let It Be. Obviously, some form of noise
reduction was used. I have no problem with this if it's transparent, but on
Naked I think much of the guts of the performances are too sanitized. The
Beatles used borrowed 8 track machines from Abbey Road to record the
project. They're wonderful machines but from looking at the Let It Be film
and the thousands of pictures shot during the sessions it's apparent they
didn't use the same quality of microphones that they would have at Abbey
Road. Most were dynamic mics which are fine for live performing but not
nearly as good as the Neumann and AKG condensers they would have used at
Abbey Road. Dynamic mics are lousy for recording acoustic guitars and Two Of
Us suffers from a mushy almost distorted acoustic sound. Naked cleans this
up but not much.
I think if you played all three version for the average guy he'd pick the
Naked version. And that's fine with me. Even with my bitching about it it's
still a whole lot better than anything I've ever released.
Whew! Sorry for the long rambling post.
Bobby Sutliff
> Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 09:49:11 +0000
> From: bob_hutton@standardlife.com
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Let It Be
> Message-ID:
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>
> Been off work with swampy chest syndrome for the last 2 weeks, so very
> intrigued to read all the digests about the tweaking of vocals on the new
> "Let It Be". Can anyone give the exact timing in "Two of Us" where this
> auto-in-tune tweaking takes place? I've listened to the disc and can't
> discern any noticeable effect. I remember reading Ian MacDonald's
> "Revolution In the Head" and he pointed out all the bass playing mistakes
> in "The Long and Winding Road", which again, I had to admit I had never
> spotted before, but it was interesting to listen to them after being
> directed to their exact location in the track.
>
> On a lighter note, like Jocelyn said: if such tools exist, why can't we
> all make records just like the Beatles nowadays anyway?
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