Ever tried speeding your records up, or slowing them down. Obviously you need a variable pitch turntable. But can turn a durge into a winner. Sometimes you find unplayable 45's just needs that little bit more, and who knows you could have a new biggie on your hands.

Once i sort out how to record on to this thing, (PC) i'll post some things i've come across that really go once they've had the treatment.

Ever tried speeding your records up, or slowing them down. Obviously you need a variable pitch turntable. But can turn a durge into a winner. Sometimes you find unplayable 45's just needs that little bit more, and who knows you could have a new biggie on your hands.

Once i sort out how to record on to this thing, (PC) i'll post some things i've come across that really go once they've had the treatment.

I've been playing around with speed for years

very few of my singles are actually played at 45rpm

You can make a silk purse from a sows ear

Havent we all been playing around with speed?

I pitched up the Artistics the chase is on and it sounds a bit better and a bit more frantic, though when you start messing round with the vocals you run this risk of it sounding like Joe Pasquale on Helium.

david flynn allways used to do this - right pisser if you buy the record later and its not that same!

In for a penny though! and i slow down (if i remember) the Berkshire Seven - "stop and Start over"

"one monkey dont stop no show",on Double L,i played it out at 33rpm,ask Mr Bikcnell,sold him it ,cant remember who it`s by though? ,one of the 3 before 8 trio?,not seen one since

I've got a CD of Butch at the 100 Club a few years back. He finishes the set with Eddy Hughes "Soul Searcher", though covered up at the time as George Lemons. I'm convinced he's speeded it up slightly to give it a little more oomph.

Love playing around with my records like this. You really can make some records sound much better with a little tweak of the pitch slider. There are some great records out there that just don't quite have the beat right for dancing.

I was doing this only last night & found, what i think is a cracker !!. I was playing my copy of the 'Soulin' album by Lou Rawls. The copy i have is in Dimensional stero sound, it's well worth a listen just to hear the clarity of the production & the seperation of the instruments, absoloutly brilliant & amazing to think that this quality of recording could be produced back then !! Especially when you hear some of the shite that comes out now after someone has spent a year in a studio with just about every technical piece of wizardry available ! Anyway, there is a track on there called "Breaking My Back", pretty average at normal speed, but you play it a +5 pitch & it becomes an absoloute cracking R&B track Another track on there "Whole Lotta' Woman" also sounds great at +3

Some others i have played with are : "Jimmy McGriff - All About My Girl", popular anyway, but if you play it at -5 pitch, it sounds a carbon copy of "Tune Up" but played on the Hamond !

Mary Wells - "Everlovin' Boy" the 'B' side of "Use Your Head" really transforms into a nice dancer if you play it at between +3 & +4.

Another cracker is a double sider by the "Sweet Things" I have it on a DATE promo, or radio station copy(can't remember) both sides are fairly average, but play "You're My Loving Baby" at +6 & "Don't Come Looking For Me" at +3 & WHAT A PAIR OF DANCERS !!!!!

The Teardrops - Tears Come Tumbling +3 & 'B' side "Don't Come Looking For Me" +2 become better for dancing to.

& one to really upset the purists, Play "Fred Hughes - Oo Wee Baby I Love You" at +5 it is absoloutly superb !!!!!!!

Great thread!! I must admit I'm always pitching records up and down. This was the main reason for buying a technics deck.

One that sounds great speeded up is Silky Hargraves - I'll Keep on trying. Try + 6

One that sounds great slowed down is Eugene Jefferson - Pretty Girl dressed in brown (makes it sound like Darrell Banks open the door to your heart). Try - 4

I think this is pretty common practice at allnighters. Then again, everything sounds a little bit fast to me at allnighters.

Ferrett.

Bobby Jones - Beware a stranger - USA. Speed it up to a variety of levels dependant on how energetic you feel, and you have an ideal big prod, uptempo dancer.

Most records played at soul nights tend to pitch at +2

Most records played at soul nights tend to pitch at +2

Its a way to fit in another 45 into a hours spot