Complex Crossfade of "Misirlou"

Challenge

The producer wanted to demonstrate the Middle Eastern provenance of Misirlou in a way that young children could understand it. He envisioned a seamless transition between two recordings, and as standard editing didn’t yield good results, I was brought into the project.

Although the crossfade looked harmless at first, it involved time-stretching, re-tuning, minute track alignment and finally narrowing of the stereo field.

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