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Hah! Fair enough - tech hasn’t moved on massively since then but a whole day chasing ghosts is nuts!
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They'd created a crowd for the background noise on Dollar, Dollar on PJ Harvey's Hope Demolition Project album. The crowd wasn't a signal background track, it's actually about 300 tracks cleaned as best as possible and arranged to construct the hot city background noise. At some point, some blend of those tracks was creeping above the noise floor and affecting how the vocals from PJ Harvey and the wind instruments they were experimenting with were sounding.
Honestly, I couldn't hear it at all. I couldn't hear the flaw, I couldn't hear the fix... I kinda agreed with it sounding different but couldn't have said why.
Flood knew though, he led them through all of the groups of samples methodically, blending them in in different combinations until he'd isolated it. It was a group of samples that were supposed to bring in the heat of the day, and removing those satisfied all of them. By itself it was fine, mixed with a lot of others it was fine, mixed in the final blend it was a no from them. Did it sound better after? I couldn't say, my memory of the before was gone and I'd listened to their reasoning too long. Chasing ghosts is an accurate description for it.
Velocio
2016