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From: kds@intelca.UUCP (Ken Shoemaker)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Speeding up the music
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Date: Sat, 16-Jun-84 03:10:38 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 16 03:10:38 1984
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sorry to dissapoint you, but speeding up tunes is standard practice
on a few stations.  I don't think the point is to pack more songs
into a certain time period, but by speeding them up, people tend
to feel that they are a little more "up beat."  In addition,
many stations play around with equalization out the wazoo,
people running the boards don't pay attention to meter levels (they
only make sure they wiggle with they're supposed to),
they have compressors on each audio band, etc., to try to
pack more sound into the carrier.  All this is done to try to make
the station sound "better" and it probably works in attracting
larger audiences if only a few stations do it...human engineering
and all that.
-- 
Ken Shoemaker, Intel, Santa Clara, Ca.
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