{"id":87614436,"date":"2009-02-02T23:59:59","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T07:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614436"},"modified":"2009-02-04T11:04:43","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T19:04:43","slug":"twitter-updates-for-2009-02-02-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614436","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Updates for 2009-02-02"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"aktt_tweet_digest\">\n<li>Listening to the new Franz Ferdinand, and the big hit single <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/franzferdinand\" target=\"_blank\">Ulysses<\/a> has the vocal moved forward by about a 16th beat. Was that intentional? <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/zenrender\/statuses\/1168976122\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"aktt_credit\">Edit\/Update:\u00a0 So, this was really bugging me, because the album version vocal seemed so &#8220;slushy&#8221; compared to the single I downloaded a month or so ago.\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t <em>entirely <\/em>sure about the veracity of the album version I had, so Ripley and I wandered down to the HMV at Robson &amp; Burrard yesterday and listened to the track on a listening post.\u00a0 Same thing.\u00a0 Sounded like their singer was off a bit, y&#8217;know?<\/p>\n<p class=\"aktt_credit\">So I threw both tracks into Sony&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonycreativesoftware.com\/musicstudio\" target=\"_blank\">Acid 7.0<\/a> and did a quick slide edit to put the music tracks together as closely as I could bother, and aside from a little flam on the percussion that isn&#8217;t there normally, I think I got them pretty tight.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s an MP3 of BOTH tracks, and you&#8217;ll notice a distinct echo\/doubling of the vocal that gets more and more pronounced as the track progresses.\u00a0 Frankly, I kinda dig it, &#8217;cause it gives the track this weird dizzy feel to it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/franz_ferdinand-ulysses_both_versions.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Franz Ferdinand &#8211; Ulysses (Both Versions)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listening to the new Franz Ferdinand, and the big hit single Ulysses has the vocal moved forward by about a 16th beat. Was that intentional? # Edit\/Update:\u00a0 So, this was really bugging me, because the album version vocal seemed so &#8220;slushy&#8221; compared to the single I downloaded a month or so ago.\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t entirely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[54,55],"class_list":["post-87614436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randomness","tag-tweets","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87614436"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87614450,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614436\/revisions\/87614450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87614436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87614436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87614436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}