Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-orphan!blickstein From: blickstein@orphan.DEC (Dave Blickstein) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Speeding up the music Message-ID: <1843@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 21-Jun-84 10:31:06 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.1843 Posted: Thu Jun 21 10:31:06 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 23-Jun-84 02:46:20 EDT Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 19 This discussion of speeding up the music has solved a long-time mystery for me. I often play guitar along with the radio, and quite often I've noticed that songs are slightly out of tune. Now I realize that bands often don't record at exactly A-440, but most bands do (with the advent of quartz tuners this even more so). Many is the time I've tuned to the radio, and then replayed the song on the record and it's not in tune. There are companies that make equipment that digitally records an audio signal and compresses it (leaves out some samples). This doesn't cause the key to shift or timbres to change. I would thing that most sophisticated radio stations would use such equipment but I guess most radio stations are that sophisticated. Dave Blickstein (UUCP) {decvax, ucbvax, allegra}!decwrl!rhea!orphan!blickstein (ARPA) decwrl!rhea!orphan!blickstein@Berkeley decwrl!rhea!orphan!blickstein@SU-Shasta