One and One Make 24
"NEw sound" is a man playing twelve guitars while a twelve-voiced girl sings. Oddly enough, it’s not quite as mad as it looks, thanks to the tape recorder. "New Sound" is the name given by the American guitarist Les Paul to a way he has of ‘making his guitar sound like an orchestra and his wife’s voice like a choir. It’s a simple piece of polyphonic flapdoodle, really. Paul first plays the bass rhythm on his guitar, recording it on tape. Then he runs the tape through again, recording a few chords on top of the bass. He does this a few more times, adding flourishes and
harmonies here and there, and then,°on top of all that, he records his wife’s voice (technically, dubs it in). His wife sings the tune through some more, either in harmony with the recorded voice, or in unison, and finally the whole torrent of. noise is recorded, Paul plays around with echoes, too. He puts. his wife--if it’s her voice he wants echoing-in the bathroom with a microphone. If there’s no bathroom handy he uses two tape recorders, one running a split second behind the other. Anyone interested in what all this adds up to will be able to find out on Saturday, December 22, at 7.35 a.m., when Les Paul will be 4ZB’s Morning Star.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 650, 14 December 1951, Page 18
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227One and One Make 24 New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 650, 14 December 1951, Page 18
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