Does any use music production software to edit songs or albums which seem to have recording faults in them?
And not simply because you want to create something 'new' really but just because there's something obviously wrong in the initial recording of a song or album.
For example, my digital copy of 'Nights Out' by Metronomy always used to bug me because it didn't flow well. For example, there was a clear 'break' between 'Nights Out' and 'The End of You Too' even when I had gap-less playback on even though it was really clear the first song was supposed to flow seamlessly into the second track.
All I did was remove that gap just at the right place so it now does what I believe it's supposed to and it really works.
I have also downloaded songs and found them to have 'blips' in them. At first, I assumed it was a crap download and downloaded it again - and again - from a few more sources only to find the same minor problem. So in the end I edited it myself and did my best to remove it. A case in point is in the 'Intro' from Blessure Grave's 'Judged by Twelve, Carried by Six'.
Has anyone else experienced a 'fault' as they see it in an album's recording and taken steps to rectify it using some music production software? If so, what was the problem?
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A lot of gapless playback stuff, but also there's a bit where the track skips about 10 seconds into 'Climbing' by the Meat Puppets, so I got rid of that.
I use mp3directcut to delete the gap between the last track and a hidden track. I save them as 2 separate files.
mp3directcut is free and works lossless (don't re-encode the mp3).
I do this too when I really like the hidden track and think it should have been on the album.
For example there's a hidden track called 'Ministry (of Love)' on the Detachments self-titled LP which plays about 8 mins after the official last track 'Words Alone' has finished. I like the song so much I can't be bothered having to forward to it so I simply deleted the vacuum in between and et viola!, problem solved.
I also do it when I really like a bonus and think it works well as the last track on an LP, because often there's a long silence at the end of the official last track which spoils the flow.
I did this with Twin Shadow's 'Confess'. 'Be Mine Tonight' flows well now and leads onto 'Mirror in the Dark' and finally 'Get What You Want' without any sense that these two last tracks are really bonus tracks.
10 track album becomes a really credible 12 track album. Job done.
I've gone so far as to edit a bit out of a song that bothers me
The New Pornographers' "(It's Only a) Divine Right" is a balls-out classic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYKPFiWo3cI&feature=related
Thing is, though, they make the fatal mistake of repeating the middle eight. Once is enough, the second time around it just feels redundant and introduces an element of tedium & self-indulgence into an otherwise perfect pop song.
This is clearly unacceptable. So I've cut the second middle eight out, and now have the edited version sitting there in the album folder.
I've done this with one or two other songs as well, can't remember exactly which ones now.
Every time I get a new Radiohead album,
I alter the track listing, the song arrangements, and effects on Thom's voice/Johnny's guitar to my exact preference.
I have an ancient Devo bootleg on cassette (taped from vinyl) called Devonia
It's got some stuff that I've heard elsewhere (e.g. Mechanical Man) but mostly it's unpolished studio versions of songs that I've never heard anywhere else. Uncontrollable Urge, Smart Patrol, Clockout, Blockhead, a great selection of stuff from the first two albums and before. Most of them are played slower than the album versions, with a really great beefy sound, lots of bottom end and really aggressive. It's a fucking classic. Anyway I recently digitised the cassette and gave it a bit of a mastering spit & polish (including running it thru a flash new de-noiser that we've got at work, the thing is incredible). Now it's got *just* enough hiss but not too much, and none of the weird artefacts you usually get with de-noisers. I'm in love with it all over again.
Here it is, for the geeks
http://www.discogs.com/Devo-Devonia/release/1008946