Yes I said records because I came from the old school. When it comes to today's country music, I cant stand to hear stations speed up their music like some of the old Top 40 stations would. I've been blessed to work at successful stations that didn't have to speed up their songs to get more content or spots in. Sped-up country music sounds absolutely horrible, like youre running a race and youre out of breath. How can stations get away with this? Can the masses really not tell the music is faster?
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speeding up records
- Thread starter Hundredthousandwatts
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Funny you should bring this up. I have been noticing that one of the stations I can occasionally hear always seems to have faster music. The only exception is for their syndicated night-time programming. At first I thought it was just my imagination, but I am positive that it is not. It is not sped up by much, but enough that it is noticeable it you listen to the same music via another source. I do not think most people truly notice though, especially when they are the only station around that plays country.
back in the 90's, music row magazine did a several page article on how stations speed up, and crank up the volume of songs via computer modifications. an interesting thing to do is record the stations music, and then play your CD in unison with it. you will notice many major market corporates play this game. another test is music quality. crank up a stations song version loud, then crank up your CD version loud. you will notice the CD has much more depth in production, while the station computerized/bastardized version is just loud, with no low points. you especially notice it during hard core country songs, that just sound popified via radio, yet pure country sounding on the CD.
yep, its atrocious. the average idiot listener does not know this stunt. spread the word. if i were a competing station not doing this, i'd call them out on it through the airwaves. dont think the artists like it either!
yep, its atrocious. the average idiot listener does not know this stunt. spread the word. if i were a competing station not doing this, i'd call them out on it through the airwaves. dont think the artists like it either!
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frank74
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Yes, I don't think everyone notices this. I was a radio geek as a kid and noticed it when we traveled, mainly in top-40 radio. A certain Nashville top 40 station near the far right of the dial comes to mind. I haven't noticed it as much with country radio.
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kenglish
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WPGC AM-FM in Morningside, MD (DC Market) was well known for it's use of German EMT Turntables, to speed up the songs, back in the 70's.
I recall their PD once said, "The music seems to drag on other stations".
I recall their PD once said, "The music seems to drag on other stations".
Back in the 90s I told our morning man that our competitor was speeding up the records. I was surprised and kind of honored when he made a huge deal about it on the air. He actually made it into a poll question "should we speed up the songs too like the other station does". Of course all the callers said no, many were really angry about it, they thought it was disrespectful to the music. The funny thing is they probably wouldn't have noticed unless it was brought to their attention.
jay, good to know your morning man had enough stones to inform the listeners, and make a mockery of your competitor. bet he got some morning show mileage out of that topic. sure beats "XYZ generic online morning show prep".
scott salvatori said:jay, good to know your morning man had enough stones to inform the listeners, and make a mockery of your competitor. bet he got some morning show mileage out of that topic. sure beats "XYZ generic online morning show prep".
Yes, it actually got newspaper coverage. It very much upset the heritage competitor who we beat for the first of many times that book. I wish I could re-live that era of my life, it was so much fun.
Couldn't agree more about generic morning show prep, 90% of morning shows bore me because of it.
I have perfect pitch, so I do notice it from time to time on certain stations.
I don't, frankly thing speeding up the music by just a tiny smidge is that big of deal. Too much, though is certainly bad.
But, what I think is worse...are stations, and companies that are playing crappy MP3 versions of songs at 128 kbps...sometimes even less. And a good number of
them do.
The station I work for insists on .wav files for music...and will go no less than a 320 kbps MP-3 only if it has to...
But, what I think is worse...are stations, and companies that are playing crappy MP3 versions of songs at 128 kbps...sometimes even less. And a good number of
them do.
The station I work for insists on .wav files for music...and will go no less than a 320 kbps MP-3 only if it has to...
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