nadroj Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 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: [video:youtube] 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. Quote Hammond SKX Mainstage 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mate stubb Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 I didn't hear it. But I wanted to hurl. Quote Moe --- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe P Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 Something happened there, a poor edit maybe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnotherScott Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 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). Quote Maybe this is the best place for a shameless plug! Our now not-so-new new video at https://youtu.be/3ZRC3b4p4EI is a 40 minute adaptation of T. S. Eliot's "Prufrock" - check it out! And hopefully I'll have something new here this year. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harmonizer Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marczellm Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 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. [video:youtube] Quote Life is subtractive.Genres: Jazz, funk, pop, Christian worship, BebHop Wishlist: 80s-ish (synth)pop, symph pop, prog rock, fusion, musical theatre Gear: NS2 + JUNO-G. KingKORG. SP6 at church. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfields Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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