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General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Owlswing on March 01, 2018, 07:26:02 AM

Title: Double-speed guitar . . . . ?
Post by: Owlswing on March 01, 2018, 07:26:02 AM

I have just listened, for the first time in Goddess knows how many years, to Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, (Pts one and two) and it has re-opened an old query that I hadn't realised that I had never followed-up.

What is a "Double-speed guitar"?

Title: Re: Double-speed guitar . . . . ?
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 01, 2018, 07:37:56 AM
See link



http://www.mikeoldfield.org/index.php/info/discography/tubular-bells/
Title: Re: Double-speed guitar . . . . ?
Post by: Anchorman on March 01, 2018, 09:25:40 AM
I have just listened, for the first time in Goddess knows how many years, to Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, (Pts one and two) and it has re-opened an old query that I hadn't realised that I had never followed-up.

What is a "Double-speed guitar"?





Still a masterpiece, IMHO.
Mind you, so is "Ommadawn".
BTW, anyone listened to "Ommadawn 2"? Is it worth the effort of buying it?
Title: Re: Double-speed guitar . . . . ?
Post by: jeremyp on March 01, 2018, 12:26:56 PM
I have just listened, for the first time in Goddess knows how many years, to Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, (Pts one and two) and it has re-opened an old query that I hadn't realised that I had never followed-up.

What is a "Double-speed guitar"?
It's a guitar recorded at half speed and then played back at normal speed in the mix to make it sound an octave higher - and to make the musician seem like a whizz.

Syd Barrett used the same technique on the track See Emily Play.
Title: Re: Double-speed guitar . . . . ?
Post by: Owlswing on March 01, 2018, 12:52:30 PM

Thank you, Gentlemen.

'Personal Ignorance' file now updated.