Justin Bieber 800% slower = Ambient Masterpiece

[Prince Regent]

It reminds me of the Lion King for some reason.

 

[Lexodus]

I call bullshit, the voice and the waves do not appear slowed down whatsoever.

Percussion elements seem to have dissapeared.

Original U smile is 190 seconds(3.10 minutes), times by 800% or 8.00 is 1520 seconds, 1520 seconds/60 = 25.333333333 minutes.

But the "Ambient masterpiece" is around 35 minutes,

Or have i went wrong.

I'm pretty sure the waves *are* the percussive elements. Remember, this is 800% slower.

 

[Lexodus]

My life...

my entity...

my existence....

It is complete.

I am ready, mother.

Take me back home.

My God.... it's full of stars...

I'm with you guys. This may be the closest thing to a religious experience I will ever have.

 

[Comieman]

WHOOOOA it felt like a trip on the hardest, strongest acid in the world.

*Needs to stop getting visions of world being born*

And also, damn you Space Odyssey 2001

 

[SeanTheSheep]

Yeah, my mind is blown.

http://soundcloud.com/shamantis/j-biebz-u-smile-800-slower

Now, I'm normally not the one to share this kind of stuff but man.. This shit is pretty amazing.

What's really amazing about it is how many people believe it's really Justin Bieber slowed down. It's obviously not (I'm an audio engineer so I'm qualified to tell you this). I got to hand it to whoever wrote the song though - riding off the back of someone else's fame sure is a clever marketing gimmick to get people to listen to your stuff. It's good to see that The Escapist a.k.a. The Great Justin Bieber Free Advertising Machine can actually be used, via threads like this, to promote other artists too.

Yeah, the crashing waves kind of broke it for me and I realised it probably wasn't a Bieber song. That and the fact that 3-4 minutes * 8 =/= 35:29
It is very clever though, to say so.

 

[linkzeldi]

Ehhhh? Does not compute.

 

[TriGGeR_HaPPy]

This... Is actually legit. That's enough to blow my mind.
But it's 23 past midnight where I live, and I'm listening to this for the second time. I'm only halfway through, and I have to get up in 7 hours, but I can't. stop. listening.

I... I don't even...
...
*combusts*

 

[Bloodstain]

I'm pretty darn impressed. Maybe this works for other musicians as well.

 

[theSovietConnection]

I... it...

What the fuck just happened?

 

[Lexodus]

Yeah, my mind is blown.

http://soundcloud.com/shamantis/j-biebz-u-smile-800-slower

Now, I'm normally not the one to share this kind of stuff but man.. This shit is pretty amazing.

What's really amazing about it is how many people believe it's really Justin Bieber slowed down. It's obviously not (I'm an audio engineer so I'm qualified to tell you this). I got to hand it to whoever wrote the song though - riding off the back of someone else's fame sure is a clever marketing gimmick to get people to listen to your stuff. It's good to see that The Escapist a.k.a. The Great Justin Bieber Free Advertising Machine can actually be used, via threads like this, to promote other artists too.

Yeah, the crashing waves kind of broke it for me and I realised it probably wasn't a Bieber song. That and the fact that 3-4 minutes * 8 =/= 35:29
It is very clever though, to say so.

It's not 800% (it's much slower) but I've actually done it myself. I downloaded the actual video myself, split the audio, put it through the wringer, and it came out exactly as that (although the speed was different, since I tried 8x first). The waves are the percussive sounds being broken down and stretched- the harder sounding ones are the digital snares, and the longer, rolling ones are the cymbals. You know, the ones that sound like you're standing on a cliff watching the sea crash up against it below you, whilst the wind howls around you and rushes through your hair? Well, I kind of forgot where I was going with this... uh, wait. Yeah, so it's legit.

EDIT: It IS 800%. For some reason, it said 11 minutes in paulstretch, but in iTunes it became 33 minutes odd.

 

[AZT00Z]

This is simply sublime, though I haven't heard the actual version of the song so I can't really compare.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

My.....God.

*begins weeping*

So......beautiful.....


No, seriously, what's the big deal? It sounds kind of cool, but it's not a freaking masterpiece.

 

[Cynical skeptic]

Not to be an ass, but this says more about how easy it is to make passable ambient music than anything else.

Also, all positive reactions a result of expecting crap (beiber) and getting something okay.

 

[II2]

Yeah, my mind is blown.

http://soundcloud.com/shamantis/j-biebz-u-smile-800-slower

Now, I'm normally not the one to share this kind of stuff but man.. This shit is pretty amazing.

What's really amazing about it is how many people believe it's really Justin Bieber slowed down. It's obviously not (I'm an audio engineer so I'm qualified to tell you this). I got to hand it to whoever wrote the song though - riding off the back of someone else's fame sure is a clever marketing gimmick to get people to listen to your stuff. It's good to see that The Escapist a.k.a. The Great Justin Bieber Free Advertising Machine can actually be used, via threads like this, to promote other artists too.

Having fiddled with the file a bit, I think that it WAS (past tense) Bieber, before it got manipulated to the point of resynthesis.

What I'm wondering more, is what program the author used on the source file. Wavelab or Soundforge with pitch preserving time stretch + reverb + repeat? von Mark Linhk Timestretcher standalone? "Paulstretch" gnu?

 

[LightspeedJack]

Someone do this to something that's actually decent imagine how incredible that would be! And just to clarify this hasn't just been slowed down 8 times, loads of effects have been added and the levels altered heavily.

 

[BonsaiK]

Yeah, my mind is blown.

http://soundcloud.com/shamantis/j-biebz-u-smile-800-slower

Now, I'm normally not the one to share this kind of stuff but man.. This shit is pretty amazing.

What's really amazing about it is how many people believe it's really Justin Bieber slowed down. It's obviously not (I'm an audio engineer so I'm qualified to tell you this). I got to hand it to whoever wrote the song though - riding off the back of someone else's fame sure is a clever marketing gimmick to get people to listen to your stuff. It's good to see that The Escapist a.k.a. The Great Justin Bieber Free Advertising Machine can actually be used, via threads like this, to promote other artists too.

Having fiddled with the file a bit, I think that it WAS (past tense) Bieber, before it got manipulated to the point of resynthesis.

What I'm wondering more, is what program the author used on the source file. Wavelab or Soundforge with pitch preserving time stretch + reverb + repeat? von Mark Linhk Timestretcher standalone? "Paulstretch" gnu?

The source material is Bieber, yes. It's just been heavily manipulated to the point where it doesn't count.

My guess for the time-fiddling is Paulstretch. That'd explain the audio manipulations and the general wonkiness of it.

 

[eggy32]

Well, that was fun for about 30 seconds, sounded like the intro to some epic movie or something. Got pretty shit after that though.

 

[James Joseph Emerald]

Yeah, my mind is blown.

http://soundcloud.com/shamantis/j-biebz-u-smile-800-slower

Now, I'm normally not the one to share this kind of stuff but man.. This shit is pretty amazing.

What's really amazing about it is how many people believe it's really Justin Bieber slowed down. It's obviously not (I'm an audio engineer so I'm qualified to tell you this). I got to hand it to whoever wrote the song though - riding off the back of someone else's fame sure is a clever marketing gimmick to get people to listen to your stuff. It's good to see that The Escapist a.k.a. The Great Justin Bieber Free Advertising Machine can actually be used, via threads like this, to promote other artists too.

Having fiddled with the file a bit, I think that it WAS (past tense) Bieber, before it got manipulated to the point of resynthesis.

What I'm wondering more, is what program the author used on the source file. Wavelab or Soundforge with pitch preserving time stretch + reverb + repeat? von Mark Linhk Timestretcher standalone? "Paulstretch" gnu?

Actually, most of the reverb and 'special effects' people think has been added in just seem to be a natural side-effect of stretching out the music track. It causes a warbling, warped sound degradation (like artefacts in pictures) which is apparently epic in slow-mo.

 

[rileyrulesu]

how can something be 800% slower?