Question
You’re producing Taylor Swift's new album. For 10 points each:
[10h] As you boot up your computer Taylor says she wants you to use Logic, not FL Studio, which are both examples of this type of software with a three-word name.
ANSWER: digital audio workstations [or DAWs; prompt on music production programs or equivalent]
[10e] Taylor requests the use of this production effect to make her vocals resemble the swelling piano intro of “Roundabout” by Yes. A 1980s conspiracy concerned “masking” Satanic phrases using this effect, which can result from playing a vinyl record anticlockwise rather than clockwise.
ANSWER: reverse tape effect [or reversing or reverse backmasking; accept equivalents such as playing it backwards]
[10m] She suggests the use of this effect to make her vocals sound “soaking wet”. Phil Collins’ drums were often subjected to the “gated” variant of this effect, which mimics placing a sound in a wider space.
ANSWER: reverb [or reverberation; accept gated reverb]
Summary
| 2023 UMN COOT | 08/19/2023 | Y | 3 | 26.67 | 100% | 100% | 67% |
Data
| Our Job is Buzz | BHSU | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| doubleplusnegfive | Jeff Weiner Fan Club | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Weird Klaus Barbie | Palestrina Sawayama | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |