On 11-Mar-97 Chris Fahey wrote:
quoted 6 lines When you hear mariah carey sing, painful as it is, you are actually>When you hear mariah carey sing, painful as it is, you are actually
>hearing a woman's singing voice which has been recorded a thousand
>times, sampled into a computer, chopped up into little bits in a digital
>editor, cut-n-pasted, tweaked, stretched, pitched, etc. to make what I
>would call crap. But the process of making the record is almost
>EXCLUSIVELY electronic.
in fact, most pop music (even the kind with guitars) uses more electronics and
computer horsepower than all the aphex & orbital albums put together. just the
act of creating a vocal track for any of today's top 40 hits involves hours of
messing with files on a hard disk, and a battery of multi-thousand dollar
effects boxes. each word, nay, SYLLABLE is meticulously chosen from gigs of
data, run through some effects and then cut 'n pasted into a digital editing
program.
if you think i'm lying, you haven't read MIX magazine lately... (not mixmag.
mix. check it out, it's a real eye-opener.)
Jon Drukman jsd@gamespot.com
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