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Do You Know How Much Classical Music Is Edited?

Season 2 Episode 7

When we think of editing in music, we might think of quantizing lining up rhythm in an R&B song or autotune fixing the vocals of a pop singer. Many people don’t realize that editing exists in classical recordings as well.

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