Tape 1

[bty455834]

i know people want spot on copies,but come on guys i.ve just heard 2 
tracks i've loved .thats the whole point isn't it???

buy the way if the removal of the dire straits tracks helps  i'm all 
for it...


kev 




--- 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>>
>