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Location: North Carolina | We've all read and heard about Les Paul's early multitracking work in the late forties, and there is some talk about other having done it as early as 1941.
What about the movies that were done in the thirties? How did they do the sound effects for fight scenes, voice over narration or the night club music that underscores dialog? There was apparently some means of adding these things later, and if so, why was this technology not applied to the music recording industry? Curious. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | But Multi -tracking has been / is applied in the music industry , Doris`Day " Everybody loves a lover " for example , used for voice -over , also known as " dubbing ".
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Location: North Carolina | Yeah, circa 1958. I think Buddy Holly, for one, was using dubbing about this time and Voyle Gilmore was certainly using it to sweeten the Kingston Trio's recordings.
Given that the film industry had been dong this for some time, I was curious as to why it seems not to have made inroads into the music recording industry until then. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Is n`t it fantastic that the movie -industry was so far ahead..but they had too , what with all the noise going on , they had to record , and then later sync. it with the picture , while they had allready developed multi-channel stereo , people at home still had to make do with mono , that pro -stuff was X -pensive tho`...!!..probably the reason why the music -rec. biz was a tad " slow " ...
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Location: Yorkshire, England | Dicky Heart, while recording his second album,
`Can Tha Lend Me Thee Wife `Till Next Monday?`
is actually credited with being the first person to multi-track in the UK, heavily influenced by the great Les Paul.
As you all may be aware, this is where Alf Sidebottom (Rhythm Tambourine) was unable to make the recording session, as he had to do the night shift that week darn't pit. (local slang - down the coal mine)
Dicky ended up playing both lead and rhytmn tambourine on the track.
He also inadvertently created Phazing, as during playback he played out of sync with the original tambourine track due to having drunk 11 pints of Guinness shandy.
This discovery was later picked up on and used to great effect by many other 60's bands in the `Summer Of Love` era. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Shows ya` that great inventions usually are Discoveries..but Guinness -shandy ..?!..now , if it was a rum -grog...
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