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| From | ronald and karen sanchez <eldeluxe@mcn.net> |
| Subject | Re: Let It Be |
| Date | Tue, 25 Nov 2003 15:46:36 -0800 |
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I mentioned last week, I played my original album and the single of Don't Let
Me Down after a listen to Naked. I'll have to pull out my "Get Back" boots. I
have a very early vinyl release and a cd with has things like Save The Last
Dance For Me. I can't say I actually have a "Glyn John's" version. What's the
track listing on that.
Me, I never had a problem with what Spector did. With the single versions of
Let It Be and Get Back, you got two different versions of the best songs
anyway.
I do think Naked is sort of "glossy" all the levels are prefect and it sounds
modern. I like the original "mixing on the fly" sort of sound. I think all that
computer mixing takes any charm out of most music. Give me a roll of tape and a
couple of colored markers, a razor blade, and I'm ready to mix.....
now I'll go back to trying to learn to play piano.
RS
Robert Sutliff wrote:
> 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:
> <OF5ED73C37.0B0FD4F9-ON80256DE8.003565BB@internal.standardlife.com>
> >
> > 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?
-- Ronald Sanchez
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