If Only They Had The Technology BITD

[QUINNY]

If only John Luongo (in particular) had had the technology BITD,
http://www.zshare.net/audio/4736803b08752e/

This track might have appeared on the artist's Greatest Hits CD........or NOT!!

[remicks]

*****


This is brilliant. Improves it 100%.



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[QUINNY]

*****
This is brilliant. Improves it 100%.
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It sounds better to my ears (save for some artefacts to do with free software and its less than pro performance)....no more (semi) chipmunk voices, saxes, backing vocals, thinner bottom end ('cos even the bass & drums would have been pitched up, therefore sounding much less fat 'n' punchy) and even the vibes sound more realistic and fuller. I re-did it after I'd posted this up and the second attempt is better than the first 'cos I used a slightly better original.

FYI: it's pitched down 10.9% to get the correct original pitch (I think his voice sounds about right and 10.9% is 2 semitones down) then upped by 10.9%, but keeping this new pitch the same.

Audacity allows you to do this easily.

[Disco Funk]

It sounds better to my ears (save for some artefacts to do with free software and its less than pro performance)....no more (semi) chipmunk voices, saxes, backing vocals, thinner bottom end ('cos even the bass & drums would have been pitched up, therefore sounding much less fat 'n' punchy) and even the vibes sound more realistic and fuller. I re-did it after I'd posted this up and the second attempt is better than the first 'cos I used a slightly better original.

FYI: it's pitched down 10.9% to get the correct original pitch (I think his voice sounds about right and 10.9% is 2 semitones down) then upped by 10.9%, but keeping this new pitch the same.

Audacity allows you to do this easily.

They should have just gotten Bryan to re-record the track, those cheap bastards! :)

I doubt he'd still consider it Greatest Hits worthy. Bryan is a rocker, and to him, this song is a skeleton in the closet.

I personally enjoy the track. When I recorded it onto vinyl, though, I slowed it down because the chipmunk sound to his voice was too much. I'm still not crazy about the software, because it still sounds dirty (unless that was because you used a less than mint copy for your example, Quinny).

Disco Funk

[QUINNY]

They should have just gotten Bryan to re-record the track, those cheap bastards! :)

Then he might not have been able to reach the notes.

I doubt he'd still consider it Greatest Hits worthy. Bryan is a rocker, and to him, this song is a skeleton in the closet.

Too true, but only he knows.

I personally enjoy the track. When I recorded it onto vinyl, though, I slowed it down because the chipmunk sound to his voice was too much. I'm still not crazy about the software, because it still sounds dirty (unless that was because you used a less than mint copy for your example, Quinny).
Disco Funk

The second attempt was quite a bit cleaner, but still some artefacts. Sounds O.K. though. The posting @ Zshare is only a relatively low quality mp3.
Here's a WAV snippet.zSHARE - if only they had the technology bitd.wav

BTW: I've since realised that I should have sped it up a tad more when trying to get it back to its originally released tempo, but what's a BPM between friends.

100% - 10.9% = 89.1% of original
89.1 + 10.9% only equals 98.81
89.1 + 12.24% = 100.005

@ 11.25 a.m. Doh!!! Stupid me. Much easier and quicker to adjust pitch without adjusting tempo in Audacity (still learning) and then I can achieve a better sound, from yet another source.
zSHARE - if only they had the technology bitd.wav

Sorry it's not topped and tailed properly, but I'm getting rather bored with this now.

[discopsycho]

Quinny,

When you wrote, "Audacity allows you to do this easily", I thought you meant you were being audacious. LOL. Then, I later realized you were talking about software. I have since downloaded it and am looking forward to playing around with it.

BTW, Bryan Adams had a pretty big dance hit with Chicane a few years ago called "Don't Give Up". Maybe he has relaxed his "standards" and would now approve of his previous dance (and first) hit.