cityturnedtostone Posted June 19, 2008 Share Posted June 19, 2008 I have recently noticed that on my current record player, I swear it plays all my records slightly higher in the pitch than the cd - it's not a huge difference..not even a semitone higher..but if i want to play my guitar along, i find i have to tune my guitar up ever so slightly. I assume this probably means I should get a better turntable, but the thing is..i kinda like the way some of my records sound with the pitch tuned up slightly..even though when i listen to the cd's it sounds better (though it takes a while to get used to)..i still kinda like the sound when it's tuned ever so slightly up. Anyone else ever had anything similar with their first record players? my turntable is a Bush MTT1 or 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dynamitekid Posted June 19, 2008 Share Posted June 19, 2008 yeap. mine does this too. I think it just happens with some record players Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottheisel Posted June 19, 2008 Share Posted June 19, 2008 Some records might be mismastered, too -- that Minus The Bear "Beer Commercials" EP definitely feels like it's at, oh, 46 or 47 rpm instead of 45. Just a smidgen faster than the CD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steventangent Posted June 19, 2008 Share Posted June 19, 2008 Wouldn't that be 44 or 43? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sherlock Posted June 19, 2008 Share Posted June 19, 2008 Wouldn't that be 44 or 43? no, then that'd be going slower. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geezfools Posted June 19, 2008 Share Posted June 19, 2008 rotations per minute, so 46 or 47 is faster than 45, 33 would be slower right? now I'm second guessing myself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steventangent Posted June 19, 2008 Share Posted June 19, 2008 If something was mastered at 44 rpm instead of the appropriate 45, it would play back at a higher pitch. edit : I am looking at this a different way I guess. For me, the logical way to explain something that is mastered wrong would be to say that it sounds as if it were mastered at the slower speed, rather than to say it sounds like it's playing back faster than it is - this is just because, at least theoretically, it's spinning at 45 rpm, regardless of how it sounds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cityturnedtostone Posted June 19, 2008 Author Share Posted June 19, 2008 it's funny cause i think my Husker Du - zen arcade sounds pretty much the same as the cd, but my new day rising is definitely a bit higher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebaroness Posted June 19, 2008 Share Posted June 19, 2008 do you have a knob to change the pitch? I was listening to a record a while ago and wondering why it sounded so weird and awful, then I noticed I'd inadvertently bumped the pitch dial on my turntable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxmartinxx Posted June 19, 2008 Share Posted June 19, 2008 I used to have a Dag Nasty bootleg 7" that always sounded too low at 33 and too high at 45. It was weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faith Posted June 19, 2008 Share Posted June 19, 2008 I have a few 33 7" of bands that I don't like that sound much better at 45rpm haha to me at least Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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