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Good (Stereo)
Vibrations
Good Vibrations by the Beach Boys is one of the classics
of pop. The 1966 track has given a new lease of life by
Dublin Institute of Technology researcher Dr Derry
Fitzgerald. He developed software that could model
individual instruments and vocals on the original mono
recording so that they could be split out and remixed.
The result is the fi rst stereo version of Good Vibrations,
which was included in a recent re-issue of Beach Boys
albums. The technology has potential applications in
music education, where a user could enhance or remove
instruments from a recording in order to learn a piece.
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