Midnight Oil

[Powderworks] Toronto 84 weed

Chris W. Rea cwrea@vex.net
Tue, 10 Sep 2002 09:49:03 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 mwoods@customfleet.com.au wrote:

> Hi All
>
> I received a copy of Toronto 1984 from Cheryl for re-weeding...thanks
> Cheryl!   This show has been circulating in another format which I've seen
> on lists around the place, easily recognisable as it fades out just as
> Armistice Day starts to crank up.  I did a quick A-B last night, and here
> are my thoughts....
...
> 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. :-)

Regards,

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