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He's actually saying "Oh, fucking hell" (The "hell" gets cut off early, which is why many people mishear it as "oh, fuck it".)
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Stuff you noticed thanks to stems
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He's actually saying "Oh, fucking hell" (The "hell" gets cut off early, which is why many people mishear it as "oh, fuck it".)
sonyman123
Executive Producer
on Madonna borderline you can hear her say "should I stop" then the desk engineer/producer says "Sing Sing"
on band on the run you can hear paul stamping his feet along to the beat to keep time.
I will try to remember a few others and then add them in to this post.
on band on the run you can hear paul stamping his feet along to the beat to keep time.
I will try to remember a few others and then add them in to this post.
Amyrakunejo
Artist
DragonForce - Through the Fire and Flames, Guitar Hero Smash Hits/Greatest Hits stem set has the keys and backing/rhythm guitar in one stem. I immediately could tell that the backing guitar was played by someone other than Herman Li or Sam Totman.
The rhythm guitar stem from the Guitar Hero III stem set is completely different, and when I actually look at the DLC chart for RS 2014 (took bloody long enough), I observed that lead and rhythm guitar were charted in RS2014 as it was in GHIII.
When looking at the RB3 DLC stem set, I noticed that Keys is the chorus in the background for the majority of the song, but there are no separated vocals stems. Also, the guitar stem is lead and backing/rhythm combined, and sounds terrible by itself.
The drum stems from both Smash Hits and RB3 sets have odd echoes from other stems, but RB3's stem set is the worse of the two, with the vocals leaking in at points (kinda have to be listening for that because it isn't obvious but it is there).
In many songs with censored lyrics (due to the ESRB being a bunch of wussies or because of laaaaaaame copyright garbage or both), listening to the vocals stems often leads to hearing the censored lyrics either at a very low and next to inaudible level, or only partially censored lyrics, but enough to satisfy the pundits of censorship (yeah, don't get me started on them).
The backing vocals for Snot - Deadfall (Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock), are half-censored at best, but since the enunciation of the lyrics is rocket speed fast, that's no surprise. There are parts where one could re-add the censored lyrics (I did this already), and it doesn't sound too bad ('Well, vivé la f***ing France, man!' is all vocals so that is very easy).
There's likely a lot of things I've noticed, but what's really funny is that after hearing the stems, I can listen to the downmixed version and still hear the stems, if I focus on it....lol
The rhythm guitar stem from the Guitar Hero III stem set is completely different, and when I actually look at the DLC chart for RS 2014 (took bloody long enough), I observed that lead and rhythm guitar were charted in RS2014 as it was in GHIII.
When looking at the RB3 DLC stem set, I noticed that Keys is the chorus in the background for the majority of the song, but there are no separated vocals stems. Also, the guitar stem is lead and backing/rhythm combined, and sounds terrible by itself.
The drum stems from both Smash Hits and RB3 sets have odd echoes from other stems, but RB3's stem set is the worse of the two, with the vocals leaking in at points (kinda have to be listening for that because it isn't obvious but it is there).
In many songs with censored lyrics (due to the ESRB being a bunch of wussies or because of laaaaaaame copyright garbage or both), listening to the vocals stems often leads to hearing the censored lyrics either at a very low and next to inaudible level, or only partially censored lyrics, but enough to satisfy the pundits of censorship (yeah, don't get me started on them).
The backing vocals for Snot - Deadfall (Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock), are half-censored at best, but since the enunciation of the lyrics is rocket speed fast, that's no surprise. There are parts where one could re-add the censored lyrics (I did this already), and it doesn't sound too bad ('Well, vivé la f***ing France, man!' is all vocals so that is very easy).
There's likely a lot of things I've noticed, but what's really funny is that after hearing the stems, I can listen to the downmixed version and still hear the stems, if I focus on it....lol
CringeLord
Restricted
The GH WoR Stems for My Chemical Romance - Teenagers has shit partially censored. The lead is censored, but for some reason the backing vocals are just turned down and left in there.
Original volume
The "censored" part turned up
Fun Fact: In the DLC preview for the MCR pack in GH WoR, Teenagers is left uncensored.
Iggy Pop - Lust for Life. In between the first chorus and second verse (I think that's where it is) He says "Can I hold it?" Most likely making a reference to the mic. Sorry Iggy, but it would probably be a bad idea to hold a microphone like you're on stage in a studio setting.
On a more recent note, Irene Cara - Flashdance... What A Feeling has a few random takes of the chorus where she screws up on the first line. On one of the takes, she screws up and then says "Uh oh, shit."
Aerosmith - Eat the Rich has Steven Tyler making a lot of weird sounds throughout the entire song. A lot of times it sounds like he's quietly burping or clearing his throat REALLY loudly.
Original volume
The "censored" part turned up
Fun Fact: In the DLC preview for the MCR pack in GH WoR, Teenagers is left uncensored.
Iggy Pop - Lust for Life. In between the first chorus and second verse (I think that's where it is) He says "Can I hold it?" Most likely making a reference to the mic. Sorry Iggy, but it would probably be a bad idea to hold a microphone like you're on stage in a studio setting.
On a more recent note, Irene Cara - Flashdance... What A Feeling has a few random takes of the chorus where she screws up on the first line. On one of the takes, she screws up and then says "Uh oh, shit."
Aerosmith - Eat the Rich has Steven Tyler making a lot of weird sounds throughout the entire song. A lot of times it sounds like he's quietly burping or clearing his throat REALLY loudly.
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I can't think of anything off the top of my head but I would have noticed certain nuances that would have been hard to hear after being lost in the master mix.
But for me this didn't start with stems alone. It started when I listened to extended mixes and heard sounds I didn't notice before. At first I would dispute it being original and consider it an extra overdub since it was louder or I just never noticed the sound before. But then I would go back and listen to the radio mix and suddenly it was there and I had become aware. Become aware, lol.
For example, INXS "New Sensation" has some synthy melody on the end, that stands out in the remix. John Waite "Missing You" features this wooden "knock knock" sound early on in the extended mix. Never heard that before but in the radio mix it is in there around the second half of each verse.
I realise I didn't give an stem examples so hopefully not too off topic. ;-)
But for me this didn't start with stems alone. It started when I listened to extended mixes and heard sounds I didn't notice before. At first I would dispute it being original and consider it an extra overdub since it was louder or I just never noticed the sound before. But then I would go back and listen to the radio mix and suddenly it was there and I had become aware. Become aware, lol.
For example, INXS "New Sensation" has some synthy melody on the end, that stands out in the remix. John Waite "Missing You" features this wooden "knock knock" sound early on in the extended mix. Never heard that before but in the radio mix it is in there around the second half of each verse.
I realise I didn't give an stem examples so hopefully not too off topic. ;-)
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ekillian01
Runner
Tom Petty used more samples fake instruments that I thought. Programmed hi hat on Free fallin' and programmed drums and even bass on Runnin' Down a Dream.
ekillian01
Runner
Also in general from a production engineering standpoint it's really interesting the hear the bass tones as those are often hard to get at from listening to a full track.