small faces - itchycoo park - colorized - wide mono Ic

Edit 1c (single) for headphones of the mono single, November 2014/March 2024. Real deep bass here & there, and the flanging effect left undiluted... and a decent start and end to the video. "Itchycoo Park" was released by Small Faces in August 1967. The song charted 1 in Canada and New Zealand, 2 in Australia, 3 in Holland and the UK, 4 in Norway, 8 in Ireland, 16 in the USA.

"Itchycoo Park" climbed the charts again when it was re-released on 13 December 1975, it reached 8 in Ireland and 9 in the UK.

The song was one of the first pop singles to use flanging, an effect that can be heard in the bridge section after each chorus.Most sources credit the use of the effect to Olympic Studios engineer George Chkiantz who showed it to the Small Faces' regular engineer Glyn Johns (also the Rolling Stones' recording engineer).

Although many devices were soon created that could produce the same effect by purely electronic means, the effect as used on "Itchycoo Park" was at that time an electro-mechanical studio process. Two synchronised tape copies of a finished recording were played simultaneously into a third master recorder, and by manually retarding the rotation of one of the two tape reels (flanges) using the fingers, a skilled engineer could subtly manipulate the phase difference between the two sources, creating the lush 'swooshing' phase effect that sweeps up and down the frequency range. Because the original single version was mixed and mastered in mono, the flanging effect in "Itchycoo Park" is more pronounced in its original mono mix, and is noticeably diluted in the subsequent stereo mix.

As a teenager in the sixties I - ruudtes - accidentally found out I could do the the same with a mono turntable with variable speed control: first I recorded a song on track one of a mono two track tape recorder, and then I rerecorded the song on the second track while listening to the first track. By varying the speed of the turntable I could get the flanging effect anywhere I liked it to be.

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