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Re: [ARSCLIST] DAT frequency problem
David Lennick wrote:
This reminds me of something I've been meaning to ask the group. Last
Wednesday I heard something impossible..a broadcast concert by the
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in which every piece of music was about
a tone sharp, the announcer sounded like Minnie Mouse, and the program
ended at 9:54 and was followed by 5 minutes of dead air, then a station
break. Is it possible that somehow a recording made at 44K was played at
48K? The other scenario is that it was on CD and a player with variable
pitch is in their control room (and an idiot at the console). How could
this happen?
The 48/44.1 possibility is quite probable. At 6% per semitone, that
error would be around 0.8 tone (1.6 semitones) sharp. If the program was
nominally 50 minutes long or so, five minutes of dead air would also fit.
How it happened? Likely someone who did not know the player; I'd call
him an 'engineer', but that would be presumptuous. <G>
Mike
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