Jump a little higher
Posted by matt_cochr on 19 October 2007 - 10:06pm.
It hadn't been my intention to post anything here, but... oh well.
This is filched from the blog "Create Digital Music." During a recent performance of set-closer "Jump," Van Halen's playback system unfortunately changes sample rate of it's own accord, which basically means that it plays faster than it is supposed to.
Luckily the whole thing was captured, including copious introductions.
I'm not entirely sure why they decided to not have a keyboard player there in person. Such is rock.
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I'm no musician but..
...the keyboard sounds fine to me. It's the guitar that's appallingly flat just about all the way through. Can anyone explain?
The keyboard bit is being
The keyboard bit is being played back from some digital source which has gone wrong somewhere - it's not as drastic as tape or vinyl playing at the wrong speed but it makes everything 108.84% faster than it should be.
The singer can adjust his pitching upwards to suit and with the drums no one would really notice because pitch isn't such an issue, but the guitars are pretty much stuck unless they can stop to retune.
The keyboard is playing in the wrong key
If the automated keyboard sequencer has somehow shifted its pitch, then it would still sound fine, but it would be out of key with the actual band, therby making the guitars sound out of key. I've no doubt that the guitarist is playing the song correctly, and you can see him struggling (and failing miserably)to find the key, but that's what you get when you cut costs by replacing real musicians in order to pay for ridiculous inflatible microphones. It's a most wonderful clip. Thanks for sharing that one.