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Re: sppeded up recordings

Subject: Re: sppeded up recordings
From: "michael trommer" trommersanssoleil
Date: Thu Feb 9, 2012 5:35 pm ((PST))
Check through the signal chain (actual sound card/system settings and so on=
)
=A1=A9 I could be wrong, but what you=A1=AFve described sounds like a typic=
al sample
rate mismatch.
Good luck !


On 12-02-09 8:25 PM, "" <> wrote:

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> I imported at 48 and it played back the same speeded-up sound
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> John V.  Moore Nature Recordings
> www.johnvmoorenaturerecordings.com
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> In a message dated 2/9/2012 5:17:52 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
>  <trommer%40sympatico.ca>  writes:
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> It sounds like that=A9=F6s a sample-rate problem...check that your sound =
card  is
> set to play back at the same rate that your recordings were made at  &shy=
;
> it
> sounds to me like the sound card might be playing back at 48.1kHz
> recordings
> that were made @ 44.1kHz.
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> Good luck...
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> On 12-02-09  7:25 PM, "Peter Shute" <
> <_pshute%40nuw.org.au> _
>  <pshute%40nuw.org.au> ) > wrote:
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>> > I had a similar thing happen a  couple of years ago, possibly with a
>> > Soundblaster card too. It seems  the kids had somehow got into some
> advanced
>> > settings of the card's  driver and selected a mode that speeds up
> playback.
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>> > Have you  tried playing sounds from other sources, like Youtube? If th=
ey
> aren't
>> >  affected then maybe it's happening at transfer time. I assume the
> recorders
>> > themselves aren't doing it? My PCM M10 has a switch that  allows playb=
ack
> speed
>> > to vary. Very disconcerting, but being digital  it has no effect once =
it's
>> > transferred to a computer.
>> >
>> >  Peter Shute
>> >
>> > ________________________________
>> > From: 
>> <_naturerecordists%40yahoogroups.com> _
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>  <_JVMNATREC%40aol.com> _ (m("aol.","JVMNATREC");=">=
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>> >  <naturerecordists%40yahoogroups.com>
>> > Subject: [Nature  Recordists] sppeded up recordings
>> >
>> > Help! I have just set up a  new desktop computer with a Soundblaster X=
-f:
>> > Xtreme Audio sound card.  I am using Adobe Auditions 1.5 for my sound
>> > editing. I am importing  sound from my Portadisc MDP 500 or my SV 3260=
 DAT
>> > through
>> >  Optical IN. (this seems to be the only option with this sound card).
>> >  However, the recordings, when played back through my computer, sound
> "speeded
>> > up". For vocal it is like someone has taken a slight puff of  Helium g=
as.
> The
>> > imported recordings sound fine when listened through  the DAT or
>> > Minidisc.Is there someway to "slow down" the imported  sounds. Sorry f=
or
> such
>> > an
>> > amateur description, but any ideas  would be most welcome.
>> >
>> > John
>> >
>> > John V. Moore  Nature Recordings
>> > www.johnvmoorenaturerecordings.com
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