Ok, here's a crazy question

[Rokket]

Here's the plot:

You record a song with a certain BPM, sayyyyyyy 125. Then you collab with someone, and the song is good, but you realize it would sound better at say, 85 BPM.

So, you retrack, but the guy who did the guitar for you is no longer around, and you can't do it yourself. What you really want to do is use that track, because let's face it, it was that good.

So how do you slow it down? Using just VST effects and any recording software, how do you slow it down to match the new BPM?

Or do you just flush the hope of using it again?

 

[SouthSIDE Glen]

You could use what you got with beat matching and pitch correction, but it will be like watching the slow motion replays of the Super Bowl game. The technical quality may be OK (or it could suck, if the software sucks), but it's just not going to sound "right" slowed down by 32%.

There are a lot of real guitarists out there. Get a collaboration track at the new BPM.

G.

 

[Joza]

I think it might work from 125 to say 120 or maybe 115 but not to 85.

 

[Rokket]

That's kind of what I thought.


Thanks!

 

[miroslav]

... but it's just not going to sound "right" slowed down by 32%.

From back in my younger days, I remember some jams and gigs that sounded good like that...
...though maybe it was the buzz that made it seem so.

 

[SouthSIDE Glen]

From back in my younger days, I remember some jams and gigs that sounded good like that...
...though maybe it was the buzz that made it seem so.

Well, yeah, you slow your brain down by 32% and it balances everything out then .

G.

 

[grimtraveller]

Approaching middle age and driving around London every day for 8 hours has slowed my brain down close to 32%.