[BC] Re: Off-key choir

[Glen Kippel]

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Kevin Tekel <kevtronics at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> Of course, these are probably the same engineers who gave us the crazy
> phasing effect in Miss Toni Fisher's "The Big Hurt" -- the inadvertent
> result of attempting to raise the level of her vocals in the complete mix
> by overdubbing the song with itself.  Or at least that's the most
> believable version of how it came to be; I've heard all sorts of wacky
> explanations, such as "the song was recorded over shortwave radio"!

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There have been some new techniques like that which have been derived purely
by accident.  This may have been one of them -- I had not heard that story
before.  Anyway, they were playing back two tapes of the same song and
recording on a third machine.  (Ampex 300 probably, as this was in 1959.)
The songs were started simultaneously, and the engineer would alternatively
rest his thumb on one tape flange or the other to make the phase
relationships change.  We still call it "flanging" to this day.

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