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| From | mrl@PSFC.MIT.EDU |
| Subject | Re: lp speed vs cd speed |
| Date | Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:14:16 -0500 |
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>actually, I just went through all this with my upcoming katrina & the waves reissues
>where the vinyl was faster than the master tapes... apparently, it was not uncommon
>at the lacquering/mastering stage to speed up masters slightly for extra oomph....
>what does a re-issuer do? we matched the vinyl speed since that's what we
>were all used to hearing...
Amazingly, I know of an example where the CD was taken from the vinyl, and it
still was too slow. TV Smith's Last of the Great Explorers, whose master
tapes were missing, from what he told me. I had to speed up the CD version by
almost 3% in order to match the LP speed. Go figure.
Mark
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