Just A Minute

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From: Espen Krømke <espen.kromke@...>
To: just-a-minute@...
Sent: Tuesday, 6 December 2011, 7:03
Subject: Re: [just-a-minute] JAM-1969-11-17@44=Receiving_Compliments-v2

 

Den 05. des. 2011 22:30, skrev nylon net:

 

This was originally meant to see if there were editing differences between the two versions, but one thing I'm noticing is that while they started in perfect synchronisation, they rapidly drifted out of sync: the old recording is definitely faster than the new recording. Within 30 seconds it was playing about half a second in advance. Later they synchronised for a moment, and then drifted out of sync again. They continue to drift to and fro throughout the episode. Could this be a result of old tapes stretching?

I've noticed this too, in a lot of old recordings. Not by comparison but purely by ear, with Nick sounding like Mickey mouse (or Clement sound like a normal being...)
On some recordings it's been so bad that I've manually adjust the speed to something that *sounds* more right (just by ear) and saved that as a new version.

But I also believe there's been the the case with the old recordings being noteably slower. I never knew of these issues Badger Dance mentions, so I thought it was just a case of different playback speed on the cassette player that did the recording and later played back to computer, either due to technical differences or state of battery or something like that.

And of course, these shows are usually noteably shorter or longer than they "should" be, that's a pretty good indicator of something being wrong with the playback speed too.