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Page 2 of 4 You use Serato’s Pitch n’ Time Plug in, tell me how this has been useful for you. Ryan on Serato Pitch 'n Time (Telephone Interview) “It’s useful because it’s the cleanest sounding of all that stuff, they’ve got the best algorithm I think, and I’m asking it to do some real drastic things… The thing I’ve really relied on it for is overall time stretching of several tracks that need to be phase coherent. For example, the Concert For George was originally shot in England in 25fps in PAL standard frame rate, they needed to do a pull-down to get it to output to 24 frames for a movie. So basically what you’ve got to do, is you have to slow down the audio, but if you slow down the audio from 25 frames to 24 frames, it really sounds slower, the tempos get real slow especially if it’s music, the voices start sounding like Darth Vader. It’s subtle, but still you’re dealing with performers who have a very specific sonic signature, so it’s unacceptable... So we tried several different ways of doing it… [from using a hardware box] that did real-time pull-down and it sounded garbley and glitchy and awful. And then we tried some other software version of that to do the same thing and it wasn’t acceptable. The only one that was any good was Pitch n’ Time. So we basically took the entire 5.1 mix and the stereo mix of a two hour film and pulled it down using Pitch n’ Time. It took all night for the computer to process it but when we played it back the next morning it was perfect, everything was phase aligned, it sounded great and that ended up being what we used for 35mm print for Concert For George.” “I also did it for this new Tom Petty documentary, everything was on video, but there was one thing that was shot on film, it had to be integrated with all the other video footage, so we needed to do a .1% pull down from 30fps to 29.97 and I used Pitch n Time to do that across all my mix stems. It sounded great and it locked up perfectly. It is the highest quality of all those algorithms that are out there.” Aside from Serato’s Pitch n Time plug in, what are your other favorite plug ins? “I use the Massenburg EQ, for me it’s the best one. I’m a big fan of the 1176s, which is the old vintage analog limiter… Some of the Waves stuff, I like the L3 because it’s good to make things louder for clients to listen to. Audio Ease Altiverb I like a lot, I use TL Space. Mostly regular stuff,the kind of guys that I work with don’t really go for completely esoteric stuff, it just has to be really good clean sounding stuff because most of the effects are coming from the band and not from me.”
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