If recording vocals, taping them at the same time as the lead instrument can make for a balanced sound recording.
On their new album Brothers and Sisters of the Black Lagoon, they have created an record of playful dance music designed to take your mind off the fact that we're all doomed, using vocal and tape experiments and lots of bells (they're obsessed with bells, for some reason).
IN the first analysis, more than 2,000 college students participating in 31 studies listened to several different kinds of music, as well as to silence and to a vocal-relaxation tape.
The track included the highly compressed drums that the Beatles currently favoured, with reverse cymbals, reverse guitar, processed vocals, looped tape effects, a sitar and a tambura drone.
During the recording of Lennon's vocals, the tape speed was reduced from 50 cycles per second to 45, which produced a higher and thinner-sounding track when played back at the normal speed.
They recorded two new Beatles songs built around solo vocal and piano tapes recorded by Lennon and gave lengthy interviews about the Beatles' career.
This included the recording of two new Beatles songs built around solo vocal and piano tapes recorded by Lennon as well as lengthy interviews about the Beatles' career.
Its highlight is Dance to the Medley, an extended version of the title track that features a thumping Motown backbeat, acid-rock guitar solos, soul revue horns, complex harmony vocals and backwards tapes.
Harrison had told Geffen that his guide vocal on the tape would most likely be re-recorded, but he was unable to improve on the part due to his having contracted laryngitis through overexertion.
Thor Christensen of The Dallas Morning News reported Jackson often lip syncs in concert; he wrote: "Janet Jackson one of pop's most notorious onstage lip-syncers conceded ... she uses 'some' taped vocalip-syncers concededve vocals...
