Re: (TV) Interview w/ Hell about new DESTINY STREET

[Rex Broome <rexbroome@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:44 PM, andy fekete <andy.fekete@gmail.com> wrote:.
>
>
> Have to say, though, that I find the necessity to sing or play guitar
> off-key really odd, especially because Hell says the new vocals and guitar
> were recorded digitally:  any modern digital audio workstation (Protools,
> Reaper -- hell, even the free Audacity) can do pitch / speed correction.
> It's, like, trivial.
>
> Seems obvious to me that after pulling the old cassette tape tracks into
> the
> DAW, you'd simply digitally adjust the pitch and speed as desired, and THEN
> lay down the new guitars and vocals, *in the proper key*.  Problem solved:
> no retuning or having to sing "off-center"
>
> What am I missing?
>

 Probably nothing, although there are two possibilities-- one that Hell just
preferred the new "stretched" pitch for some reason, or possibly was
concerned about digital artifacting if he respeeded it (easy to make
imperceptible, to my ears, but people, usually full of shit, claim they can
hear it) and decided to prioritize the current speed.

Two, retuning the guitar and singing a tiny bit off are just as easy as
respeeding the track.  The guitar, there's a little arrow key on any tuner
that lets you reset the baseline pitch, and the voice, you know, aside from
people with "perfect pitch" (and I'm guessing Hell isn't one of those),
generally the mind resets itself to slight variations in key and goes from
there without any conscious thought. Which begs the question of why he'd
bring it up as something kind of difficult to do.  The most probably answer
is that it makes a good story, Hell not being averse to occasional
self-mythologizing.

I still haven't heard the new version.  Really on the fence about it.  I
should get it, though, as I imagine it might become hard to find...

-Rex
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