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[Powderworks] Toronto 84 weed

mwoods@customfleet.com.au mwoods@customfleet.com.au
Wed, 11 Sep 2002 08:37:51 +1000





T...
       ...
       > During Knifes
       > Edge, it picks up 5 seconds on the old version, about half a
       semitone I'd
       > reckon.  Without a comparison, it just sounds like an energetic
       gig where
       > everything is played fast, but in actuality, it's a tape speed
       error
       > somewhere along the line.
       ...

I'm curious -- how do you know that the "new" version is pitched *fast*, as
opposed to the "old" version being pitched *slow*?  Wouldn't there have to
be
some kind of definitive benchmark to compare each recording to, rather than
comparing them to each other?  Do you know somehow that the "old" version
is
pitched correctly, or are you assuming because it was the first one out?
Share some of that arcane audiophile knowledge with us. :-)


that definitive benchmark being the original studio version on Bird
Noises.....It is slower in tempo, but pitch is constant.

rgds
Michael