Re: 1st use of varispeed by The Beatles?

Mister Charlie <widijaz@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "joelfriedman" <joel_friedman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Ahhh... I noticed the caveat in RTB (p. 292): "the 1st track to
>> receive GENEROUS application of varispeed...." So... maybe earlier
>> tracks received less generous applications....?  I've noticed sound-
>> timbre differences in some of the outtakes of Help, but you never
>> know if the bootleg was made at the correct speed...
>>
>> Dizzying indeed!!  I guess I'll comb MacDonald and see what he says
>> and try to find any other references to the technique elsewhere.
>>
> Don't know whether you will find any exact information but it seems
> by most source deduction that Rain was the first with a 'generous'
> dollop of it... certainly TNK and a few others likely had some...but
> Rubber Soul?  I can't really think of a song that would display any
> in particular.  They were just starting to approach the idea of
> recording in a more artful, purposeful way on that LP, and the songs
> really don't seem to have required anything like that.
>
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If you discount the piano part of "In My Life" (sped up by a factor of
two), it seems that Tomorrow Never Knows is the first well-do***ented
example of the use of artificial double tracking (ADT)using varispeed.
A good description of the technique is given here:

http://musictechnology.northwestern.edu/~gary/projects/beatles/html/record.htm#vari


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