Originally Posted by
mitchiemasha
I few reasons why this is bad.
When bending the record our brains respond to the micro changes in Pitch. This tells us if we've over bent, under bent before actually hearing the phase. Programming this into yourself as an automatic, subconscious reaction, seriously increases your skill/speed at matching tempos. Especially important if working on different pieces of equipment as you've learned to react to the bend, not just the feel, size of your platter. It's the same in sports where athletes subconsciously respond to micro cues or triggers, rather than reacting to the action, if reacting to the action, they're already too late.
The algo isn't very good. To speed up a record it cuts it into tiny little pieces and overlaps them. Sometimes an important cycle, like the peak transient of a kick, will fall in that overlap and be erased. This will ruin the nice sound we get of 2 tracks in the mix as every 3rd or 8th kick is being destroyed by the algo.
However, there's no rules. If you like it, use it. But at least now you know what those issues are when confronted by them.
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