[peel] Tape 1

[rockerq@...]

Here lies the problem with numbering the tapes - this show is actually spread 
over "tape1" and most of "tape 2" - so the audio is in 4 sections. I am 
pleased you did not notice my edits! - there are therefore three places where a 
varying amount of time has been lost - eg The middle of the Dick Gaughan track, 
the end of the Dire Straits track - the gap could be as short as 5 seconds if 
he was "watching the reel as it comes to a close" - or could be a few minutes 
if he didn't like the track playing, or more if he'd gone to the pub!

The first tape definitely sounds fast, but as you say the second tape is even 
faster - Either he has 2 machines (unlikely as he then would have allowed the 
sections to overlap) - or the second tape was unevenly wound and thus running 
slower - which reinforces our theory that he was using one of those crap mono 
cassette decks that we all got for Christmas in the mid-70s - after a year or 
two the motors would start to wear out. Also posssible that the batteries 
were running out - although in that case you'd expect the speeding up to occur 
gradually throughout the show, rather than one tape faster than the other.

Cheers!

Rocker


> <<Has anyone else noticed that this show (7/7/78) seems to run a bit fast?
>  I slowed it down by 2.5% using Audacity, but noticed that after about 1 
> hour it seems to speed up again. 
>  Presumably the tape is a C120, so maybe it speeds up after the tape flip.
>  From 1:03.44 (the Dick G back-announce) to the end I've slowed it by a 
> further 2.5%
>  I'm listening again now and it's still not perfect, but sounds much better 
> to my cloth ears.
>   
>  Presumably the original show was two hours.
>  The 10:25 timecheck comes after 14 mins, so there's 11 mins missing from 
> the beginning of the show.
>  The final pips come at 1:44
>  1:44 + 11 = 1:55
>  Unless my logic/maths are flawed (surely not), there's still another 5 mins 
> missing.
>  Surely it's not running that fast!?
>   
>  Alan>>