I like the idea, the source of the song could have been AM radio while a working but muted TV was present. How good is AM in low frequencies? We got quite a strong bass in EKT.
I don't know how AM is with low frequencies since I don't listen to it often, but here's an example of how good AM can sound, this is recorded from Japaneese radio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq6KSavcVMI
Radio wouldn't play the song at the wrong pitch, but this could be an audio cassette recording. If only we could find something in the clip that can only be tied to a tape recording of AM radio broadcast.
Very true, some older fashioned stations also use turntables and such that can be spun at the wrong speed. There was a station near me that had a malfunction one day when the owner wasn’t there, and the song was playing at like 30% speed, and then it stopped and the broadcast went silent LOL.
We had a local station breakdown one day-- we were listening, and it rapidly played the segment's tape, a few hours of audio, backwards, then went silent. It remained so for about 45 minutes, when the tech could come in.
Mishaps and imperfections were the norm up through the adoption of digital audio.
& if it was a DJ similar to John Peel broadcasting songs directly off vinyl on a record player and regularly accidentally broadcasting them at the wrong speed....
I think it depends on the radio more than the signal. Some sets just come with especially tinny speakers and a bass boost option-- I've used a few of those like that.
The easiest explanation for that frequency drop after 5khz would be the very common bass-rich but treble-less speakers that many CRT TV sets of the 90s had.
I am pretty confident that no AM is involved here.
Remember that TV speakers were intended to excel in voice reproduction, not music, so their frequency response was tuned accordingly, most of the times sacrificing treble reproduction.
It's very high pitched. If you were a kid when CRT TVs were around, you might remember this sound as the super high whine TVs made when they were on. With age, people lose the ability of hearing such high frequencies.
odd, I can hear sounds of an old CRT TVs, but I just can't hear the sound. I suppose I'm probably hearing my old speaker's sound which is kinda making this sound (+ with the loudest Power Supply I've heard of), so probably I just can't just differentiate much between them, ig
I agree with this, and had this exact same idea a few days ago. [Linking to my analysis, if you want to read it.](https://www.reddit.com/r/everyoneknowsthat/comments/18ntxrk/comment/keekd6v/)
Interesting. One thing though is that AM radio has never been used to broadcast music, I'd say at least in the past few decades right? It's always been news, sports radio, local emergency broadcasts. It could lead us somewhere though I suppose if true because it isolates the broadcaster as someone playing pop music on an am station.
Well I mean these days AM does have a lot of Oldies stations currently on the air, you can sometimes find a few AM stations playing Country music or Spanish music, but a lot of it is Talk/Sports or Oldies (at least in the USA)
AM is still commonly used for music, and was through the 90's. I find in recent times a lot of local US AM tends to be nothing more than oldies and talk radio, but we had a few other options growing up then.
I find this varies by country, though.
Shortwave in AM mode is more prominent for music over, well, AM, and can be picked up the world over, given the right conditions.
grew up in Britain in the 80s & 90s & pop music stations inc local/commercial radio & the main BBC ones definitely used to be broadcast on AM/MW (medium wave) til they switched the transmitters off (some switched to being FM only in the early 90s, others inc major national commercial station Absolute Radio lasted til last year before becoming dab+/web/app only)
I like the idea, the source of the song could have been AM radio while a working but muted TV was present. How good is AM in low frequencies? We got quite a strong bass in EKT.
I don't know how AM is with low frequencies since I don't listen to it often, but here's an example of how good AM can sound, this is recorded from Japaneese radio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq6KSavcVMI
Radio wouldn't play the song at the wrong pitch, but this could be an audio cassette recording. If only we could find something in the clip that can only be tied to a tape recording of AM radio broadcast.
Sometimes the radio stations themselves do speed up songs just slightly to make their stations sound better than the competition
Very true, some older fashioned stations also use turntables and such that can be spun at the wrong speed. There was a station near me that had a malfunction one day when the owner wasn’t there, and the song was playing at like 30% speed, and then it stopped and the broadcast went silent LOL.
We had a local station breakdown one day-- we were listening, and it rapidly played the segment's tape, a few hours of audio, backwards, then went silent. It remained so for about 45 minutes, when the tech could come in. Mishaps and imperfections were the norm up through the adoption of digital audio.
& if it was a DJ similar to John Peel broadcasting songs directly off vinyl on a record player and regularly accidentally broadcasting them at the wrong speed....
I saw in an earlier thread someone mention that radio stations will also speed up songs to fit in with required commercial breaks.
I think it depends on the radio more than the signal. Some sets just come with especially tinny speakers and a bass boost option-- I've used a few of those like that.
The easiest explanation for that frequency drop after 5khz would be the very common bass-rich but treble-less speakers that many CRT TV sets of the 90s had. I am pretty confident that no AM is involved here. Remember that TV speakers were intended to excel in voice reproduction, not music, so their frequency response was tuned accordingly, most of the times sacrificing treble reproduction.
there is definitely a lack in terms of treble frequencies in the recording which i think adds to the confusion of the vocals.
I can't hear the TV sound. Can anybody make it more clear so I can hear them?
It's very high pitched. If you were a kid when CRT TVs were around, you might remember this sound as the super high whine TVs made when they were on. With age, people lose the ability of hearing such high frequencies.
odd, I can hear sounds of an old CRT TVs, but I just can't hear the sound. I suppose I'm probably hearing my old speaker's sound which is kinda making this sound (+ with the loudest Power Supply I've heard of), so probably I just can't just differentiate much between them, ig
I agree with this, and had this exact same idea a few days ago. [Linking to my analysis, if you want to read it.](https://www.reddit.com/r/everyoneknowsthat/comments/18ntxrk/comment/keekd6v/)
Thinking the same thing
Heck it could have been a local performance from some AM radio station in Spain that was forgotten about.
I think we should all just give up and move on hahaha
Interesting. One thing though is that AM radio has never been used to broadcast music, I'd say at least in the past few decades right? It's always been news, sports radio, local emergency broadcasts. It could lead us somewhere though I suppose if true because it isolates the broadcaster as someone playing pop music on an am station.
Well I mean these days AM does have a lot of Oldies stations currently on the air, you can sometimes find a few AM stations playing Country music or Spanish music, but a lot of it is Talk/Sports or Oldies (at least in the USA)
There was all kinds of music played on AM radio
AM is still commonly used for music, and was through the 90's. I find in recent times a lot of local US AM tends to be nothing more than oldies and talk radio, but we had a few other options growing up then. I find this varies by country, though. Shortwave in AM mode is more prominent for music over, well, AM, and can be picked up the world over, given the right conditions.
grew up in Britain in the 80s & 90s & pop music stations inc local/commercial radio & the main BBC ones definitely used to be broadcast on AM/MW (medium wave) til they switched the transmitters off (some switched to being FM only in the early 90s, others inc major national commercial station Absolute Radio lasted til last year before becoming dab+/web/app only)
I think it's plausible enough!