On the phasing/flanging front, I was listening to "Ostinato" off'f Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi album. If you check the high end percussion on that, it's phased such that it sounds like when you've got two copies locked and just tap the pitch control either way with your fingernail. The up and down effect is due to running two tapes together or something, I guess, and sounds so much better than the wack "phaser" effects you get these days with, say, one of them Pioneer mixers. Check it out. That is why phasing ain't what it used to be in my books.
Jonny. > The flanging of regular doubles comes from frequency dependent phase > cancellation. You can phase cancel pure sine waves by offsetting one signal > exactly one cycle. But a complex signal -- like a Jeff Mills track -- > is continuously changing, and slight offsets mean some frequencies cancel, > and some frequencies reinforce, so you get a comb filter effect. > > What's REALLY interesting to a record geek like me is taking two different > records that are similar enough to phase cancel. Chic's 'GoodTimes' and > Sugarhill Gang's 'Rapper's Delight' are like this -- RD recreated the Good > Times loop so precisely that when you line it up it flanges with the original.
