Detecting Click Tracks

Posted by kdawson on Monday March 2, 2009 @07:32PM from the musical-sleuthing dept.

jamie found a blog entry by Paul Lamere, working for audio company Echo Nest, in which he experiments with detecting which songs use a click track. Lamere gives this background: "Sometime in the last 10 or 20 years, rock drumming has changed. Many drummers will now don headphones in the studio (and sometimes even for live performances) and synchronize their playing to an electronic metronome — the click track. ...some say that songs recorded against a click track sound sterile, that the missing tempo deviations added life to a song." Lamere's experiments can't be called "scientific," but he does manage to tease out some interesting conclusions about songs and artists past and present using Echo Nest's developer API.

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Re:It's pretty standard these days by clickety6 · 2009-03-02 20:47 · Score: 4, Funny

Even more distressing is the number of 'live' acts where everything is prerecorded except for the vocals.
More distressing is the number of 'live' acts where everything is pre-recorded INCLUDING the vocals!

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Re:It's pretty standard these days by dougisfunny · 2009-03-02 22:01 · Score: 4, Funny

I thought it was because of songsmith.

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Re:It's pretty standard these days by El+Torico · 2009-03-03 00:59 · Score: 3, Funny

And I miss the days when we had cowbell players like Gene Frenkle. No click track needed there either, not that it would have done any good.

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