SMiLE Sessions box set!

[The Shift]

I'd be surprised if the 1st track leaked to promo TSS was fire. I'm sure the guy just made a mistake.

Confirmed on Blueboard as BWPS version…

Move along folks, nothing to see…

[Shady]

The wait continues.....

[PhilCohen]

Well, things have quieted down here, and a bit of boredom is settling in. I suppose, that if there is no "Smile" box by the end of the year, we'll get some sort of statement from Capitol, even if it's only bad news(I.E. that the box set isn't to be). If we want to listen to "Smile" music after that disappointment , we can always go back to listening to the unofficial releases and fan compilations that we've been listening to for many years.

[Shady]

This is quite literally the calm before the storm..

[ghost]

Guys, cool it. Genevelyn is working on the release date. The stars have to be right, you know. Funky Pretty.

[hypehat]

Preach it, brother

[Dunderhead]

Well, things have quieted down here, and a bit of boredom is settling in. I suppose, that if there is no "Smile" box by the end of the year, we'll get some sort of statement from Capitol, even if it's only bad news(I.E. that the box set isn't to be). If we want to listen to "Smile" music after that disappointment , we can always go back to listening to the unofficial releases and fan compilations that we've been listening to for many years.

Like.

[The Heartical Don]

The wait continues.....

After 147 pages, this is our true and solid conclusion that we all can agree upon.

Quite an achievement.

[Micha]

Well, things have quieted down here, and a bit of boredom is settling in. I suppose, that if there is no "Smile" box by the end of the year, we'll get some sort of statement from Capitol, even if it's only bad news(I.E. that the box set isn't to be).

BOOOOOOOORING!!!

[Micha]

Bb, not B! but point taken

In Germany/Scandinavia B = H, and Bb = B

Yup, my mistake. I don't know why this is different here from elsewhere. Still better than the French/Russian Do-Re-Mi-and-so-on-stuff (unless you ask a Frenchman or a Russian, of course ).

[Micha]

But now that we all have fairly advanced computers, the easiest way to do this is to just load a WAV or AIFF (but NOT MP3s -- something about the nature of MP3s renders this process useless)

Hm. Years ago someone supplied me with an mp3 he had made from a bonus track on a Japanese BWPS version (I think). This mp3 was an instrumental version of Roll Plymouth Rock. I then inverted that, merged it with Roll Plymouth Rock from BWPS and had the vocals isolated. That time the mp3 worked.

Are there any other instrumental versions from BWPS songs on digital format out there?

[tansen]

But now that we all have fairly advanced computers, the easiest way to do this is to just load a WAV or AIFF (but NOT MP3s -- something about the nature of MP3s renders this process useless)

Hm. Years ago someone supplied me with an mp3 he had made from a bonus track on a Japanese BWPS version (I think). This mp3 was an instrumental version of Roll Plymouth Rock. I then inverted that, merged it with Roll Plymouth Rock from BWPS and had the vocals isolated. That time the mp3 worked.

Are there any other instrumental versions from BWPS songs on digital format out there?

Yup, as long as you convert the mp3 to .wav or .aiff, then no problem.

[Andrew G. Doe]

Well, things have quieted down here, and a bit of boredom is settling in. I suppose, that if there is no "Smile" box by the end of the year, we'll get some sort of statement from Capitol, even if it's only bad news(I.E. that the box set isn't to be). If we want to listen to "Smile" music after that disappointment , we can always go back to listening to the unofficial releases and fan compilations that we've been listening to for many years.

If. 

[Andrew G. Doe]

"Out of phase stereo." It's a way to cancel out the imaginary "third" stereo channel: everything in the center. There are many ways to do that:

1) If your playback device has speakers that connect via TWO wires -- a positive and a negative -- just take the one speaker and connect it to the receiver via the positive port for the left and the positive port for the right. Mind you, this could damage your speakers. The advantage, though, is that sometimes things aren't mixed exactly in the center, so you may have to adjust the balance, which is easy to do this way.

2) I had a receiver that had RCA outputs for "rear." Turned out those actually played "OOPS."

3) But now that we all have fairly advanced computers, the easiest way to do this is to just load a WAV or AIFF (but NOT MP3s -- something about the nature of MP3s renders this process useless) into your favorite sound editor/processor software (Audacity should do it), split the stereo file into two separate mono channels, and "invert" one of the channels. This will literally turn that channel upside down. Played back on its own it sounds like you did nothing to it, but played back with an uninverted channel sounds weird. But anyway, once you invert one of the channels, re-join them into a single stereo file again, and convert that stereo into mono. Everything in the center cancels out. What's really cool is a lot of early Beach Boys stereo mixes have the instrumental tracks panned dead-center with the vocals spread left and right, so OOPSing them will give you a capella tunes -- "Cabinessence" sticks out in my mind, and "Louie, Louie" is surprisingly revealing.

BTW, I know of at least one piece of software that does all of this in one step...it's called SoundFX, but it's only available for Amiga...I think it's called "StereoDiff" in that one.

Or... if you pull the haedphone jack just a little way out, you get much the same effect.

[hypehat]

[rab2591]

[The Shift]

Oh sh*t, now we're for it!  Quick, hide the review copies!   

[dmcguire70]

I wonder if AGD's laptop was looted during the London riots!!

[The Heartical Don]

I wonder if AGD's laptop was looted during the London riots!!

Hm. I think I'll go shopping in Camden Market coming weekend. Perhaps, with a bit of luck, I can get me a laptop of unknown provenance then, for beer money, with the complete Smile Sessions music on the hard drive. Who knows? Stranger things have happened.

...or the thief produced a 'gangsta remix' of the Smile Sessions, and removed the originals... the horror, the horror...

[Andrew G. Doe]

We don't do riots in Farnham - much too vulgar. We just stand around going "bad show, what ?" and shaking our heads.

As for what you might find on my hard drive... I'll leave that to your over-active imaginations. 

[ghost]

Nude pictures of Brian Wilson. 

[The Shift]

Nude pictures of Brian Wilson. 

Earcandy, don't you dare!

[rab2591]

[Andrew G. Doe]

Nude pictures of Brian Wilson. 

That too...

[bgas]

Nude pictures of Brian Wilson. 

That too...

Whatever gets you through the night....