Rawat, to point out all the stereo related details from ARR's music would be like picking up sand grain by grain on a beach. Every song has some kind of stereo effect placed into it. A simple arrangement like Ik Onkar has the harmony split across the channels. The string drone (if you can call it that) has the Pa sound emphasised on one channel, and the Sa sound emphasied on the other, and the vocal is again split the same way, the more dynamic tune is put in one channel, and the more static one (the one that sounds like chanting) is put in the other. And if you get to the more complex/busier arrangements, it makes a while to list all such placements.
Neways, here are some examples, that I find interesting. The way the same melodic phrase is emphasized: Most of the times, the same melodic idea is played on two different sounding instruments/similiar sounding instruments and same sounding instruments and split across the channels. And when it is the same instrument/voice, one is either played in the next octave or its eq is tweaked to sound duller or brighter than its counterpart. Examples would be numerous, but some that come to my mind, the flute kinda piece in the first interlude from Kannodu Kanbathellam, first interlude from Chadrunni (rathcagan)...It gets even better, when one of them is being from one side to other continuously..Khalbali intro string piece somewhere one min into the song. Using delay for panned sounds: Again examples abound in this style. THe main vocal is placed right in the center and it is repeated with a delay in either left or right channel. For example, Enna solla pogirai, Shankar Mahadevans voice is delayed and pusehd to left and right channels, and one channel's has more delay than the other one, so its like heraing the same thing thrice, first in the center, next in one channel, and the third time in the opposite channel. ANd in the intro for Yaaro Yaarodi the first Dum Dumakadum is heard in one channel and its reverb is heard in the other channel. THe aforementioned KAnnodu Kanbathellam interlude has one more interesting character. THe main melody is played on a flute and some synth intrument soundling like a flute. THe flute is hard panned to one side and the flute's delay is panned to the other side and synth sound is palced some where closer to the delay's placement...overall, the whole combination makes for a nice sonic flavor. One more example I think shud be mentioned is the first interlude in Eechi Ellumichi form Taj Mahal..the interlude has a dialog on Veenai like instrument. In one channel, the veena keeps playing two notes: Sa Pa, to which the veena in the other channel asnwers with a more elaborate melody. The veena playing Sa Pa is delayed a little bit and placed int he oppisite channel, and the over all effect of that veena phrase becomes Sa Sa Pa, instead of Sa Pa. Listen to it closely, you wud understand what i am trying to say. Way the panned sounds help in emphasizing the song: Listen to the intro from Aha Tamizhamma...the synth sounds, and the vocals are placed in opposite chanells, and the center is kinda left emppty...this goes one for couple of seconds, and then the rhtyhm pattern, some other synth sounds come one by one and fill up the center. Or Listen to Harini's voice in Telephone Manipol...through out the song, while Hariharan's voice is placed in the center, Harini's voice keeps sounding from both the channells, or is emphasized more on one channel once and the other the next time, or there is some kind of movement from the corners to the center and so on. It gives a very fleeting character to Harini's singing there. OR in Dating song, when Blaze starts singing D A T I N G, his voice sounds like its coming from both the channels, while his echo is centered. (Small note: Whenever you can hear the same sound as if it is coming distinctly from either channel, like harini's intro alaap in Telephone manipol, a small delay (or a slight eq tweaking) on one side wud do this, other wise, even if you pan the sound to either side without any delay, the ear would perceive it as coming from the middle.) Weird panning: Listen to the intro in Kilakey in Taj Mahal, the ola womans voice is panned to either channel, one is played in the origianl tempo, while the other one is sped up. Or ANchanam VEcha in Udhaya, sometimes the main rhythm is pushed to one side, and the other side is not properly balanced with any other sound...only some low rumble or thuds keep going..it adds to the wierd character of the song. ANd some times, even the main melody is pushed to be emphasized more on one side..for example the nadaswaram kinda melody in Yaaro Yaaro first interlude, is placed some where in the middle of Center position and one extreme side. ANd then there are songs like Sowkiyama, which its rich collection of rhythm sounds, where each drum sound occupies a specific place so that it does not interfere with other frequencies near it. ANd most of the songs having a group of voices seem to be involved, they are spread across for clarity. And most of phrases like a glissando on harp, or a rhtyhm pattern with changing resonance or cut-off filter are panned from one side to other continuously (Dhuan DHuan middle section for example). Neways, keep listening, you would find some example or the other frequently. One more small example, but one I liked: the string sound just before the first pallavi in Ye Ye Enna Achi from Kadhal Virus. It sounds like somebody is pushing it from one side to the other. --- In [email protected], V S Rawat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Would members like to give recommendation about which arr > songs they find having best stereo effects. > > I am asking about NOT the type and quality of sound. > > I am asking about kinetics/ shifting/ movement of sounds > from one speaker to another. Some part seems to be coming > from one speaker, next part comes from different speaker. > One instrumnet playing in one speaker, other instrument > playing in other speaker, and such things. > > -- > Rawat > Explore, Experience, Enjoy A.R.Rahman - The Man, The Music, The Magic. Only at arrahmanfans.com - The definitive A.R.Rahman e-community. Homepage: http://www.arrahmanfans.com Admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] BGM fest and Potters contest From arsaregama Log on to http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/arsaregama Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/arrahmanfans/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
