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by BillBohan 3397 days ago
Interesting. It sounds good at the start but becomes cacophonous shortly thereafter.

Another war story here: I used to run a 16 track mixing console with a rock band. The guitar player played with 2 different bands. He got a gig in a club one night and both bands showed up. Everybody insisted on playing.

It was OK but the less accomplished drummer insisted on playing a drum solo. I ran his drums through a delay in the range 160 - 200 mSec and mixed it back in. Every drum strike was doubled and the audience liked it. I don't think they would have been as enthusiastic if they had heard what he was actually playing.

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How much did you listen to? The cacophony comes in waves, and these waves become the sound itself.

It's a technique that goes back to Steve Reich in the 1960's. One day I'd like to see some of this stuff lip-synched to the appropriate visual:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVkdfJ9PkRQ