Korgscrew
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Posted: Nov. 16 2001, 15:39 |
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Having it stop is a way of creating a transition...there are only so many ways you can do it. A cut was quite appropriate there.
It's a very abrupt stop, but not necssarily an edit (that could depend on your definition of an edit, though)...I have no way of knowing what was done there, really - he may have stopped playing exactly at that point, and then the end cut very tightly, or he could have kept playing...it will sound the same, if it's done cleanly (which it is there).
Anyway, it's far more likely that it's done by muting the channel rather than editing. There are example of it all over the place. Some in Amarok, which I've found while listening to it are...
Around 02:09 - the same thing happens, the playing stops before a new section comes in.
20:34 - the little bit of guitar that comes in here could have been dropped into in the middle of - both the beginning and the end are quite sudden.
I think debating over this too much could get a bit silly, as it's quite a standard mix technique to mute and unmute things to get them to start and stop abruptly. It's done for effect, to get a clean ending to things; it's not natural sounding, but then modern production rarely is (in fact, it could be argued that the very fact that the very recording process itself is unnatural sounding, and that the best we can do is try and create an impression of the 'real' sound of what we're recording...but that's another discussion altogether...).
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