bluesfordan
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I was playing along with some drum tracks in GarageBand when I got a wild hair to try something. I had been using the default 120 bpm in tracking when I thought "What does it sound like if I played it back at 60 bpm?" For some of you old enough to remember vinyl and turntables, there was an old trick of playing 33 1/3 lps at 16 whatever it was rpm to get an octave drop and Tibetan gong-like sounds. That's pretty much what happens. Add in a little delay and reverb on the recorded track and now it gets a whole new spacey echo-y flavor. Cool. now what else can I do?
Then I tracked at 240 bpm and played it back at 120. Essentially the same thing. Then I tracked at 120 playing along with the now slowed down original track. Definitely makes for some interesting sounds and it was fun to do. I wouldn't write a whole album's material that way but it could definitely be used to add some spice on occasion.
Now I seem to recall seeing something somewhere about reverse playback? Where was that? Tonight's adventure perhaps?
Then I tracked at 240 bpm and played it back at 120. Essentially the same thing. Then I tracked at 120 playing along with the now slowed down original track. Definitely makes for some interesting sounds and it was fun to do. I wouldn't write a whole album's material that way but it could definitely be used to add some spice on occasion.
Now I seem to recall seeing something somewhere about reverse playback? Where was that? Tonight's adventure perhaps?