From dgarcia@mit.edu Sat Jan 01 07:33:04 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!mit!dgarcia From: dgarcia@mit.edu (Dmitri García) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Deleted B-sides & instrumental dubs - 'Midnight Animal' analysis Message-ID: <1994Jan01.073304.9246@mit.edu> Date: Sat, 01 Jan 1994 07:33:04 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Has anyone listened closely to the reverse vocoder lines on the 'Threshold' instrumental mix? On track 9's instrumental cut, the 14.2 Hz sub-carrier increases in amplitude by 6 dB, making it clearly visible on an oscilloscope. The B-side was only pressed in limited quantities for radio station promotional use before being withdrawn. Upload coming to the Ashford Poly incoming FTP directory once my upload finishes. -- Dmitri García | dgarcia@mit.edu PGP Key fingerprint: F614 9940 EC9A 4BAB "Keep the channels open." From rfournier@pipeline.com Sat Jan 01 09:48:04 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!pipeline!rfournier From: rfournier@pipeline.com (Raj Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Deleted B-sides & instrumental dubs - 'Midnight Animal' analysis Message-ID: <1994Jan01.094804.5030@pipeline.com> Date: Sat, 01 Jan 1994 09:48:04 GMT References: <1994Jan01.073304.9246@mit.edu> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Jan01.073304.9246@mit.edu>, dgarcia@mit.edu (Dmitri García) writes: > Has anyone listened closely to the reverse vocoder lines on the 'Threshold' instrumental mix? > On track 9's instrumental cut, the 14.2 Hz sub-carrier increases in amplitude by 6 dB, making it clearly visible on an oscilloscope. I've been looking for that promo 12-inch for four years. Please upload it as a 16-bit WAV file! -- Raj Fournier *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) - NetBSD 1.0 From sdubois@tum.de Sun Jan 02 14:21:04 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!tum!sdubois From: sdubois@tum.de (Steve Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Deleted B-sides & instrumental dubs - 'Midnight Animal' analysis Message-ID: <1994Jan02.142104.7260@tum.de> Date: Sun, 02 Jan 1994 14:21:04 GMT References: <1994Jan01.073304.9246@mit.edu> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1994Jan01.073304.9246@mit.edu>, dgarcia@mit.edu (Dmitri García) writes: > Has anyone listened closely to the reverse vocoder lines on the 'Threshold' instrumental mix? > On track 9's instrumental cut, the 14.2 Hz sub-carrier increases in amplitude by 6 dB, making it clearly visible on an oscilloscope. The Akasaka branch memos specifically ordered: 'Under no circumstances allow instrumental dubs of Node 02 masters to be sold commercially.' -- === Steve Dubois === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Technische Universität München "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again."