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| kev23 |
 Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 2:54 am |
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So, I've had a week back home visiting the family and not much to do, so I had a little bit of fun with my Immi songs. What I've done is imported them into Audacity, a free sound file editing program, and performed a little trick where you split the file into separate tracks, change both channels to Mono and then "Invert" one of the tracks and recombine them. Basically, this kind of screws up the mix, generally cancelling out the lead vocal along with other things depending on the song. Sometimes, it'll leave some parts of the mix alone that you normally can't hear very well, making them much more prominent. In certain parts of some songs, it'll let you hear the harmonizing or other backing vocals all by themselves, or even just some interesting part of the instrumental that you normally don't notice.
Anyway, I've gone through my Immi albums and picked out the most interesting portions and combined them into one track for each album so you can all have a listen. Here they are:
http://www.4shared.com/audio/iLPOOy1e/iMegaphone.html
http://www.4shared.com/audio/YbgL9Cek/Details.html
http://www.4shared.com/audio/TjFRfdgS/Speak_for_Yourself.html
http://www.4shared.com/audio/e6lebomB/Ellipse.html
You can stream the files from the download page rather than download them, if you'd prefer.
Also, I randomly discovered that I can achieve this effect by listening to the songs with headphones that aren't completely inserted into the jack. You kind of have to play with it to find the "sweet spot", but for some reason it does the exact same thing as the procedure I performed in Audacity. It may only work with certain headphone jacks, however. |
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RBerman wrote: "Immi is the prettiest, tallest, most talented goddess ever to place her perfect lips in front of a microphone and emit dulcet waves of honey from her golden throat. The best albums ever made in world history are Frou Frou, I Megaphone, Speak For Yourself, Ellipse, and one track each on the Narnia and Shrek 2 soundtracks." |
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| Miel |
| Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 5:14 am |
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Intriguing. Very interesting 
On iMegaphone right now. OMG what you did with Feeling Strange sounds awesome.
edit: Just got through it. That was really good! I herd so many synths I haven't heard, and the harmonized vocals were amazing.
THAAAANK YOU you deserve the best! Gay cowbbooooyyyysss!!1
But really, thank you, that was amazing! |
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| kev23 |
| Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 9:10 am |
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| Gay cowboys ARE the best! You're welcome! |
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RBerman wrote: "Immi is the prettiest, tallest, most talented goddess ever to place her perfect lips in front of a microphone and emit dulcet waves of honey from her golden throat. The best albums ever made in world history are Frou Frou, I Megaphone, Speak For Yourself, Ellipse, and one track each on the Narnia and Shrek 2 soundtracks." |
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| yummytea |
| Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 11:19 am |
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Cool!
I think the iMegaphone one was especially interesting to hear, because I always thought that layering her own voice in that special "Immi way" was something she learnt from Guy Sigsworth, but apparently she did it even before Frou Frou.
Now I have to listen to iMegaphone again in order to try to hear all those layers!
It must have taken you a lot of time doing this, Kev23. I'm in awe.  |
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| Sebazzel |
| Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 5:38 pm |
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| I just tried that in Audacity, and it's absolutely wonderful! |
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| kev23 |
| Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 10:39 pm |
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| Oh my!! I just tried an experiment doing this procedure with acapella tracks that I made using the ellipse instrumentals, and it looks like yet another interesting way to listen to the tracks....I'm gonna have lots more fun!! |
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RBerman wrote: "Immi is the prettiest, tallest, most talented goddess ever to place her perfect lips in front of a microphone and emit dulcet waves of honey from her golden throat. The best albums ever made in world history are Frou Frou, I Megaphone, Speak For Yourself, Ellipse, and one track each on the Narnia and Shrek 2 soundtracks." |
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| Miel |
| Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 6:08 am |
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Will you post them?
*gay cowboys await* |
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| Sebazzel |
| Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 3:31 pm |
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| kev23 |
| Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 6:09 pm |
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| No problem! And I'll see what I can do, Miel. |
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RBerman wrote: "Immi is the prettiest, tallest, most talented goddess ever to place her perfect lips in front of a microphone and emit dulcet waves of honey from her golden throat. The best albums ever made in world history are Frou Frou, I Megaphone, Speak For Yourself, Ellipse, and one track each on the Narnia and Shrek 2 soundtracks." |
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| ambo |
| Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 8:35 pm |
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come here boy sounds really cool.  |
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