[peel] Re: Tape 1

[Alan Ford]

>> thats the whole point isn't it???

Yes, but it does get a bit comical if John starts sounding like Pinky or 
Perky.

I too was surprised by the DS track, but I am a fan of their first album. 
Saw them, too, supporting Talking Heads; thought they were pretty good.

Alan


----- Original Message ----- 
From: bty455834
To: peel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 8:38 PM
Subject: [peel] Re: Tape 1


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>>
>



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