Excellent! Henceforth, you will be known as One Take Jake!
I was thinking that TMBG songs are great from you because, in part, a lot of them started as Dial-A-Song tracks which were necessarily (because of the DAS machine's technical shortcomings) the kind of songs that one or two guys whose names start with J can perform before a dubious microphone, which is roughly speaking a podcast about 20 years before its time. With "I Can Hear You," John and John merely pushed the before-its-time envelope by about 80 years or so.
I actually did two takes (after you record a voice post it gives you the option to listen or rerecord it) because the balance was off in the original take, not that the balance was so awesomely great the second time around. I repositioned the cell phone so that there would be a little more guitar.
I briefly considered doing multiple tracks (requiring multiple phone posts and then some post-processing in Garage Band or something) but that seemed like cheating. Also, too much trouble.
IIRC, the way to filter something so it sounds like it came through the phone is to get rid of everything above 4000Hz, or maybe everything outside the 40-4000Hz range-- I threw the above mp3 into Audition and it more or less confirms this-- there's no visible noise in the spectral view (time vs. frequency) that's above about 4200Hz, and the spikes above that are the strong parts of you singing and whistling, suggesting to me compression artifacts.
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TMBG Robot!
Date: 2006-05-08 06:21 am (UTC)I was thinking that TMBG songs are great from you because, in part, a lot of them started as Dial-A-Song tracks which were necessarily (because of the DAS machine's technical shortcomings) the kind of songs that one or two guys whose names start with J can perform before a dubious microphone, which is roughly speaking a podcast about 20 years before its time. With "I Can Hear You," John and John merely pushed the before-its-time envelope by about 80 years or so.
Re: TMBG Robot!
Date: 2006-05-08 03:57 pm (UTC)I briefly considered doing multiple tracks (requiring multiple phone posts and then some post-processing in Garage Band or something) but that seemed like cheating. Also, too much trouble.
Re: TMBG Robot!
Date: 2006-05-08 06:05 pm (UTC)Picky.
Re: TMBG Robot!
Date: 2006-05-09 05:05 am (UTC)