Tape 1

saipanda saipanda@...
Tue Aug 12 21:34:42 CEST 2008


Sorry, I seem to have misread your original message.

In my previous answer I was thinking the next show was on part of tape 1, two parts on 
tape 2 and one part on tape 3. Don't know where I got that from.

Must be the exhaustion!

Anyway, if I have got it right now, think the solution for the first show is to add 
appropriate links, comments, info on the Tape 2 page, the 7 July 1978 page, and the 400 
Box main page.

Will do this when I get up. 

Cheers,

Steve

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, rockerq@... wrote:
>
> 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>>
>







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