Q102 - No longer speeding up the music

[Nick]

I've not listened to Q for a while, but I noticed that the pitch of the music is normal. Anyone else notice that? Or maybe it's just me who is used to the 3% pitch up of 92.3 Now.

[aindik]

Don't they have software now that can speed up the music without changing the pitch?

[Nick]

The whole point of speeding up the music is to increase the pitch to make the song sound "hotter"

[aindik]

I thought the point of speeding up the music is to increase the BPM to make the song sound hotter (and comparatively slower on other stations), and that increasing the pitch was an annoying side effect.  How does increasing the pitch make the song sound hotter?

[Fakeem]

If they really starting playing music at it's correct tempo after 20 years of that chimpmunking style that i HATE, I would LOVE to know what FINALLY made them do it. PLEASE, someone fill me in.

[geeks-r-us]

I noticed their music changed as the old PD went to Chicago

[Tony Santiago]

I remember back in the days driving through the region I would turn on Q-102 and everything sounded much faster!  And it wasn't just increasing the pitch...the octave went up with it!  That was the only station I knew of where every aspect was speeded up, not just time compressing a track where it would sound like the original but sped a notch to save those 24 seconds.

[Up_N_Down_The_Dial]

I remember back in the days driving through the region I would turn on Q-102 and everything sounded much faster!  And it wasn't just increasing the pitch...the octave went up with it!  That was the only station I knew of where every aspect was speeded up, not just time compressing a track where it would sound like the original but sped a notch to save those 24 seconds.

Q did speed the pitch on the turntable or CD Player by +3%.  They did have plenty of equipment that could have corrected the pitch/tempo, but did not use it for that.  They did it for the reason stated above, to make the other stations sound boring (Eagle 106, Power 99).. at the time they were not all owned by Clear Channel... it is common practice in CHR to speed music, I don't know if it's common to speed by +3 or not, but that's what they did...

[justthenumbers]

The whole point of speeding up the music is to increase the pitch to make the song sound "hotter"

I thought it was so that they could squeeze in extra time for commercials?

[DanStrassberg]

Q did speed the pitch on the turntable or CD Player by +3%.  They did have plenty of equipment that could have corrected the pitch/tempo, but did not use it for that.  They did it for the reason stated above, to make the other stations sound boring (Eagle 106, Power 99).. at the time they were not all owned by Clear Channel... it is common practice in CHR to speed music, I don't know if it's common to speed by +3 or not, but that's what they did...

What percentage of the population has absolute pitch? I have a cousin who has it. I think music whose pitch is wrong drives people who have absolute pitch nuts (figuratively). In that case, playing music sped up in pitch as well as tempo would drive away some portion of the potential audience. Speeding up only the tempo would not have that effect.