small faces - itchycoo park - colorized - stereo remix Ib

Edit 1b for headphones, November 2014/March 2024. Edit to try and get more flanging into the stereo version.
The source of the edit is the song is from the album "Odgen's Nut Gone Flake" (2007 expanded).

"Itchycoo Park" was released by "Small Faces" in August 1967. The song reached number 3 in Holland (centre of the world*) and the UK and number 16 in the US in 1968.

"Itchycoo Park" climbed the charts again when it was re-released on 13 December 1975, it reached no.11.

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' 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.

In the sixties I - ruudtes - discovered this by accident with a mono pick up 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 phase effect anywhere I liked it to be.

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* New York at first was the Dutch town New Amsterdam, until those warlike Englishmen decided to take it over by force. Sometimes a belligerent kind of people, those British, not so long ago displayed in Falkland...