Gloria - Laura Branigan

crapfromthepast wrote: The first reasonably-priced disc to have the long version was Sandstone's Rock The First Vol. 3 (1992). Sound quality is good.

   

I have this CD and just played it. I know it's Steve
Hoffman, but it sounds
full and lifeless to me.

All I have of the album/45 version is the one on her
Greatest Hits CD. and that Sandstone CD. It's sounds
quite good, but now i'm
very curious about the Omigod! version. I suppose if I
have the Billboard 1992 CD, I have a good idea of how it
sounds already./

Edited by The Hits Man

My only option is to find the Omigod! CD.

Very nice!

As Ron mentioned, there are at least 25 US CDs with the short version length in the database, so it's not really rare at all.

It also wasn't quite correct to say the vocal take is unique on that first "callin'". That "callin'" is just from a later point in the long version. It's certainly possible to make the edits yourself:

Starting with the Like, Omigod! mastering:

1. Make a copy of 1:31.8 to 2:59.5 and insert it at 3:25.1.
2. Remove what is now 1:06.2 to 3:25.1.
3. Remove what is now 3:28.7 to 3:43.3.
4. Remove what is now 3:50.26 to end.
5. Apply a smooth/sinusoidal fadeout from 3:40 to the end (3:50.26). (If doing this in Adobe Audition, use the smooth fadeout preset but with the 2nd anchor dot moved back to the halfway point.)

All edits are on the downbeat, except the end point; the fade goes to silence after the 3rd beat in the bar.

I used a rip of the promo 45 on YouTube as my guide.

Edited by mjb50

Yep, that vocal starting each verse begins a little before the downbeat each time, but the edits are on the beat. It all works out.

Tape splices of this type are normally made at a 45 degree angle, which creates a quick crossfade, smoothing out the sound so it's not so abruptly cutting from one segment to another. When you are doing the edit digitally, if you just join two sections without smoothing their boundary somehow, it might not quite sonically match the real edit.

In Adobe Audition you just need to make sure in the preferences you've got "smooth delete/cut boundaries with crossfades of __ ms" and "smooth all edit boundaries by crossfading __ ms" enabled. I do 2 and 5 ms, respectively and am happy with the results. In Audacity, I think the best you can do is select the area of the boundary and do a Repair operation.

Edited by mjb50