Detecting Click Tracks 329
jamie found a blog entry by Paul Lamere, working for audio company Echo Nest, in which he experiments with detecting which songs use a click track. Lamere gives this background: "Sometime in the last 10 or 20 years, rock drumming has changed. Many drummers will now don headphones in the studio (and sometimes even for live performances) and synchronize their playing to an electronic metronome — the click track. ...some say that songs recorded against a click track sound sterile, that the missing tempo deviations added life to a song." Lamere's experiments can't be called "scientific," but he does manage to tease out some interesting conclusions about songs and artists past and present using Echo Nest's developer API.
what about (Score:-1, Funny)
if (interpret is coldplay or is from universal) then
dump that friggin shit back to its pond
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Re:The Crickets (Score:2, Funny)
Around here... I wonder if they are using a click track?
No. The Crickets had Buddy Holly. They also had talent.
Re:It's pretty standard these days (Score:5, Funny)
Even more distressing is the number of 'live' acts where everything is prerecorded except for the vocals.
More distressing is the number of 'live' acts where everything is pre-recorded INCLUDING the vocals!
Re:It's pretty standard these days (Score:5, Funny)
I thought it was because of songsmith.
Re:It's pretty standard these days (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The Crickets (Score:3, Funny)