rabin@dorsai.COM (Robert Marks) (03/19/91)
In this morning's Love Hounds Digest, there was a piece posted wherein a newcomer to Kate's music wondered whether the 'choppy' sound of Kate's voice when she says "Talk to me, talk to me..." in "Waking The Witch" (I believe that's the track) might have been achieved by undersampling. Answer: I doubt it. An easy way to create such an effect is by using an amplitude envelope, wherein the volume (amplitude) of the sound - her voice in this case - is regularly cut off, reduced to zero. As to this person's further question of whether this effect would mean that the album was digitally recorded, the answer is that the two questions are unrelated. The effect is not produced via the tape, only recorded onto it.