Music on FM104 played at a higher pitch?

radioguru02

Anyone else notice that not only does FM104 play the same ‘Top 40’ crap every two hours, but for some inexplicable reason whenever I’ve listened play it at a slightly higher pitch and (maybe) slightly faster as well. If it’s supposed to sound ‘cool’ it doesn’t.

davef1000

Tunes are often played slightly faster in nightclubs (which will increase the pitch) so maybe it’s to emulate that?

MikeyTaylor

pirateradiohed wrote: »

Anyone else notice that not only does FM104 play the same ‘Top 40’ crap every two hours, but for some inexplicable reason whenever I’ve listened play it at a slightly higher pitch and (maybe) slightly faster as well. If it’s supposed to sound ‘cool’ it doesn’t.

Yes, they've done it for years.

radioguru02

davef1000 wrote: »

Tunes are often played slightly faster in nightclubs (which will increase the pitch) so maybe it’s to emulate that?

Yeah I’m all for that in clubs and DJ mixes and all that, but when tunes are being played back to back it doesn’t have the same effect at all

Homer

pirateradiohed wrote: »

Anyone else notice that not only does FM104 play the same ‘Top 40’ crap every two hours

Yet you still keep listening? The mind boggles. I would be allergic to Top 40 type stations and therefore don’t have them as presets in the car and avoid them at all costs.

TallGlass

davef1000 wrote: »

Tunes are often played slightly faster in nightclubs (which will increase the pitch) so maybe it’s to emulate that?

It to speed up the song so they can play more songs and keep ads the same length.

Fuzzy Clam

TallGlass wrote: »

It to speed up the song so they can play more songs and keep ads the same length.

The original idea was that subconsciously you think the station sounds brighter/more uptempo.
I first came across this in the 1980's Radio Nova.

SATNAV

Yes Nova & Kiss FM in the 80s, really drove their Optimod ( Music processor ) just over 100% mod . Now a lot of stations use break away software to make it sound louder but not distorted .

L1011

104 have played tracks at a slightly higher pitch for at least a decade.

Certain tracks suffer really badly from it - Years & Years - King being one. Most higher BPM tracks sound dead as **** when you hear them on another station after being used to the 104 version. It may be more suited to the era when euro trance was ruling the charts, but they're still #1 so it seems to work. And the ear-bleed Omnia is gone.

end of the road

104 have been doing this for as long as i can remember. i actually quite like it being done if i'm honest.

L1011 wrote: »

the ear-bleed Omnia is gone.

i think that's gone a good few years now.

end of the road

SATNAV wrote: »

Now a lot of stations use break away software to make it sound louder but not distorted .

certainly pirates are using it, and probably a few community stations. i'm not sure if the commercials do for their fm processing though.

radioguru02

Homer wrote: »

Yet you still keep listening? The mind boggles. I would be allergic to Top 40 type stations and therefore don’t have them as presets in the car and avoid them at all costs.

I don’t listen either but have been in a number of places where it was playing

prunudo

Fm104 always had a different sound about it, this probably explains why.