Chipmunks on 16 Speed — Vol. 1 [2015, pop/rock]: the best way to listen to Alvin and the Chipmunks (chipmunkson16speed.bandcamp.com)

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Check out the bass in ‘Walk Like an Egyptian’, dirty as a hobo. Also features the best rendition of ‘My Sharona’, and the brilliant original ‘Diamond Dolls’.

This post kinda continues the theme from yesterday.

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[-] samburwell96@piefed.social 4 points 3 days ago

Yooo this is nostalgic af! I would listen to this tripping off my ASS back when that video dropped. Like a golden age of edits and musical experimentation. So much good synthwave too.

[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Fun fact: the original Vol. 1 and 2 were made by a dude who had an actual turntable with a ‘16 rpm’ setting. It wasn't slowed down digitally.

Though using about the same trick works well with some other records, as I mentioned in the post from yesterday: particularly fast idm or edm. VLC's realtime speed adjustment is alright (with the pitch correction disabled), and from command-line tools sox produced best sound for me, while ffmpeg's output was rather poor. Idk about Audacity.

[-] samburwell96@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

Wow, that's wild! My dad has a turntable similar, need to badger him to get it out of storage

[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

TBF ½ slowdown is an extreme case. I'm mostly using the speed of around 0.7-0.8.

DJ turntables allow variable speed, afaik — which was employed back in the eighties to turn techno into slower and sexier Belgian new-beat. But they aren't quite consumer-grade devices, of course.