Radio stations that speed up songs/change pitch

[Kelly A]

And the lesser-known Amerline carts... better mechanically than any of the others.

Sorry, not better than Scotchcart II's. Like the 'Fidopacks' and Aristocarts, the Amerline's still pulled from the center with no tension arm to keep the pull across the heads consistent.

 

[kfbkfb]

I don't understand why anyone would want to buy a cassette deck.

In the past few years, I've purchased several Sony CFD-S70s (to digitally archive some of my cassettes).

I have quite a few prerecorded cassettes from the early to late 1980s (including some Audiophile cassettes), many of these albums were released only on LP and cassette, I plan to use a software Dolby B decoder (the CFD-S70 tops out at ~10kHz, which is comparable to cassette machines 50+ years ago, but it'll do for me).

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Kirk Bayne

 

[AnyHuman]

I prefer stations that don't speed up the music and let it play at normal rates. Many top 40 stations, KXXM in San Antonio for example, speed up their songs.

 

[AnyHuman]

I don't understand why anyone would want to buy a cassette deck. Do they even manufacture cassettes today?

Not sure about people still manufacturing cassettes today, but I do have some old recordable cassettes sitting in my home I'd like to know what's on. Thinking of just buying a cheap cassette player on Amazon for that purpose, LOL honestly the cool thing about cassettes is that any one is recordable if you have a piece of scotch tape, just put it over the holes to trigger the record button on your deck.

 

[oldradiotapes]

speeding song within tolerable limits produces very little extra time in each hour. All a tolerable speed generates is about 20 to 25 seconds an hour of extra time.

...Which is still enough extra time to insert at least one (short) commercial.

Amazon of course has a number of them, mostly odd brands. I think the Chinese electronics manufacturers have software that takes the first syllable from one word and the last syllable from another and combines them to make names for brands and models, none of which we've ever heard of.

That's when they're not using the software that just mashes random keys on the keyboard. At least "Baofeng" (/bo fung/) is a legit name.

I don't understand why anyone would want to buy a cassette deck. Do they even manuf

Simple; to archive and preserve cassette recordings (like what I've been known to do), as kfbkfb stated. Purchasing secondhand also has the advantage of keeping one more better-quality deck (like my workhorse Technics unit with MR head) out of the hands of hipsters, who will invariably bin it once tapes go out of style amongst their nonconformist cell-phone addicted peers. They can have the Chinesium all-plastic machines designed to break after a month.

I don't understand why the question, nowadays, would even come up.....

 

[davideduardo]

...Which is still enough extra time to insert at least one (short) commercial.

That's not and has never been the reason to speed up music.

Music stations don't have a "song quota" per hour because every song is slightly... or even greatly... different in length. And today, few music stations have to time out the hour to meet the network. We work on a rule of averages, with "music clock hours" starting perhaps as much as 2 minutes early or several minutes late.

Music was sped up so the station would sound brighter than the completion. It also made AM music stations, back in the day, sound crisper.

Simple; to archive and preserve cassette recordings (like what I've been known to do), as kfbkfb stated. Purchasing secondhand also has the advantage of keeping one more better-quality deck (like my workhorse Technics unit with MR head) out of the hands of hipsters, who will invariably bin it once tapes go out of style amongst their nonconformist cell-phone addicted peers. They can have the Chinesium all-plastic machines designed to break after a month.

I don't understand why the question, nowadays, would even come up.....

Many of us in both the radio and music industries have cassettes ranging from airchecks to song demos that we have never transcribed because "we never seem to have the time". They sit in boxes in closets and file drawers gradually crumbling. I'll never listen to most of mine, but I can't bring myself to throw them out, either.

 

[CTListener]

That's not and has never been the reason to speed up music.

It's amazing how that cynical canard keeps being repeated over the decades. I remember hearing it from fellow listeners when WRKO Boston was making some records sound like the Chipmunks in the '70s.

 

[kfbkfb]

^^^
Inspired by this find

How about this (radio) tag line:

Your favorite songs playing longer so you can enjoy them more!


Kirk Bayne

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[Kelly A]

It's amazing how that cynical canard keeps being repeated over the decades. I remember hearing it from fellow listeners when WRKO Boston was making some records sound like the Chipmunks in the '70s.

What's amazing to me is how often this subject comes up on this board again and again, and how the facts plus conclusions don't seem to change.