If you listen to the other versions of this exact same recording on youtube, they are not tuned to a standard pitch. The song is in the key of G major but the other versions have it halfway between G major and F# major. The pitch had dropped down between two standard semitones. If you wanted to play along on a piano, guitar or other instrument, you’d have to detune your instrument by half a semi-tone. I believe that the most likely cause of this was that whoever transferred it to digital from the original vinyl record didn’t have the speed of the turn table running quite fast enough so it dropped the pitch. I suppose it’s a possibility that the original performers all had their instruments detuned to match one another, but that seems a very unlikely explanation to me - and I this hold that the transfer to digital was on a slow turntable. So I raised the pitch by 50 cents for the whole recording using the ‘classic method’. This means that I essentially sped up the digital recording by about 3% which simultaneously raises the pitch by half a semitone. I believe that this restored it to how it was performed on the original recording.
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What do you mean by "pitch corrected"? To what pitch?
If you listen to the other versions of this exact same recording on youtube, they are not tuned to a standard pitch. The song is in the key of G major but the other versions have it halfway between G major and F# major. The pitch had dropped down between two standard semitones. If you wanted to play along on a piano, guitar or other instrument, you’d have to detune your instrument by half a semi-tone.
I believe that the most likely cause of this was that whoever transferred it to digital from the original vinyl record didn’t have the speed of the turn table running quite fast enough so it dropped the pitch. I suppose it’s a possibility that the original performers all had their instruments detuned to match one another, but that seems a very unlikely explanation to me - and I this hold that the transfer to digital was on a slow turntable.
So I raised the pitch by 50 cents for the whole recording using the ‘classic method’. This means that I essentially sped up the digital recording by about 3% which simultaneously raises the pitch by half a semitone. I believe that this restored it to how it was performed on the original recording.