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Listen to this ballad...does the polyphony run out?


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Just got a last minute call to do a wedding on Saturday night. It's Christmas, we need money, why not. First dance is this:

 

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Typical four chord pop-guff ballad. I'm listening with headphones on and at around the 1.38 minute mark a very familar sound comes into my ears from the piano. It's like the guy has run out of polyphony and the piano has cut out. Either that the player made a mistake and someone isn't very good at using the DAW's piano roll. Anyone else hear?

 

Doesn't matter a single iota in the grand scheme of the universe, but I thought it was interesting to hear that in what was probably an expensively produced chart-topping single. Definitely don't think I've ever heard it in a professional recording.

 

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Doesn't sound like a polyphony issue. Sounds like a bad edit. Also sounds like he grew up hearing Coldplay's "Clocks" (which is a much cooler song).

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I hear the anomaly at 1:38 - it is quite obvious on headphones. There is also a less obvious anomaly at 2:10.

 

There are less obvious sound discontinuities at the same places in his version with Ariana Grande:

 

I also vote for a poor edit.

I have done splices on my Korg D3200, and done them better, even though I am just an amateur doing mixes of my covers band.

 

There is a small chance that these audio glitches are intentionally there for the youtube versions, to lessen the value of any audio copies that might be ripped from these. But because of the placement of these glitches, I am still thinking bad edit.

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Another instance of terrible editing, the vocals on this one. Right at the end of the second line with the word "Mexico" and then several times later on.

 

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There is a small chance that these audio glitches are intentionally there for the youtube versions, to lessen the value of any audio copies that might be ripped from these. But because of the placement of these glitches, I am still thinking bad edit.

 

For what it's worth, I hear the same glitch around 1:38 streaming it from google play. Weird.

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