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Re: sppeded up recordings

Subject: Re: sppeded up recordings
From: ""
Date: Fri Feb 10, 2012 8:57 am ((PST))
OK.  I tried importing from a DAT with a sample rate of 48 and the  import=

sounded fine! Now I just have to figure out how to tell my sound card to =

import at 44.1 as this is the sample rate at which most of my data is store=
d.
Thanks so much!

John V.  Moore Nature Recordings
www.johnvmoorenaturerecordings.com


In a message dated 2/9/2012 5:35:47 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
 writes:




Check through the signal chain (actual sound card/system settings and so =

on)
­ I could be wrong, but what you=E2=80=99ve described sounds like a typ=
ical
sample
rate mismatch.
Good luck !

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

>
>
>
>
>
> I imported at 48 and it played  back the same speeded-up sound
>
> John V. Moore Nature  Recordings
> www.johnvmoorenaturerecordings.com
>
>
> In a message dated 2/9/2012 5:17:52 P.M. Pacific Standard  Time,
>  
<trommer%40sympatico.ca> writes:
>
>
>
>
> It sounds like that=C2=B9s 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.
>
> Good luck...
>
> On  12-02-09 7:25 PM, "Peter Shute" <

>  <_pshute%40nuw.org.au> _
>  (m("nuw.org.au","pshute");">)
<pshute%40nuw.org.au> ) > wrote:
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>> >
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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.
>> >
>> > Have you tried playing sounds from other sources, like  Youtube? If
they
> 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
playback
> speed
>> > to vary. Very disconcerting, but  being digital it has no effect once=

it's
>> > transferred to a  computer.
>> >
>> > Peter Shute
>> >
>> > ________________________________
>> > From: 

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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
gas.
> The
>> > imported recordings  sound fine when listened through the DAT or
>> > Minidisc.Is there  someway to "slow down" the imported sounds. Sorry
for
> such
>> > an
>> > amateur description, but any ideas  would be most welcome.
>> >
>> > John
>>  >
>> > John V. Moore Nature Recordings
>> >  www.johnvmoorenaturerecordings.com
>> >
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