[78-L] audio software

[David Lennick]

Julian Vein wrote:
> David Lennick wrote:
> 
>> Recently I had a bunch of 78 by British brass bands to transfer, and all of the 
>> records seemed way off pitch..too high. But it was established that the tuning 
>> was higher in the fifties, and I tried a few tests before realizing that 
>> playing the discs at .7% below 78RPM gave me the exact timing that was on the 
>> labels (not always an accurate guide, but these were discs made for broadcast 
>> and production purposes so they should have been correct). It also probably 
>> worked out to 77.92RPM which is the actual speed used in Britain, as opposed to 
>> 78.26 over here.
> 
>> dl
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> But it's possible that the timings were taken off the disc, rather than 
> the actual performance.
> 
>        Julian Vein
> 

No reason for them to do that, since these discs date from 1954 and 1955 and 
accurate timings would have to have been available for the master tapes before 
they cut the discs from them. And if they WERE from the discs, all that means 
is that they played them back at the same speed as I did.

dl