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Re: MSG '79 boot
On Sat, 15 Jan 2000 16:24:21 -0700, Phil McRevis
<legalize@xmission.com> , late of Pablo Fanques Fair wrote:
>On this most recent listening I wondered that too. I never thought
>that before and I had listened to this boot quite a bit :). Of course
>on a turntable you can adjust the speed down to compensate and there
>are CD players that can do this as well -- mine does. The boot I have
>of the Woodstock show is 7% too fast. (I determined by comparing the
>version of Sparks on the boot to the one on the TKAA soundtrack.)
>I'm not a musician so I wouldn't know how to determine how much the
>MSG boot should be slowed down to make it more accurate. How does
>anyone else figure that stuff out without a trusted reference like
>what I did for woodstock? It seems having boots recorded at weird
>speeds relative to "real time" is commonplace.
Pitch is a guide. If the playback is fast, the pitch will go sharp,
if it is slow, it will go flat.
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