Song Track is off key flat

[ddouglass]

Ron,
Don't you think you are expecting a little too much out of a $9.95 CD from Wal-Mart? The old adage "You get what you pay for" comes to mind here.
Beside, if you sang that old country song on key no one would recognize it.
Reloading isn't going to change it and I don't know of any pitch control program that could fix it with that fine of an adjustment.

[Ron Vermillion]

Ah The $ 9.95 story. My bumfuzzlement comes from trying to understand HOW a song that was recorded on key originally, or maybe it wasn't,could possibly be pressed onto a CD flat by just a bit.

There might have been a tired gerbil in the record player drive cage that day ! Who knows !

Ron

[ddouglass]

First thing you have to understand is all of the karaoke music is recreated by the producers of the CDs using their own musicians. This is not the original music from the artists with the vocals stripped.

[jahern]

There is the possibility that the recording was done at the pitch desired by the performers. Not all tuning is done to the standard 440 A. What would bug me is if the performance itself has intonation problems. I have a track that has some "bad notes" in it. Now that is weird. Didn't they pay somebody to listen to the recording?

[ddouglass]

What! You want Quality Control?

[George]

Kick it out the door is the philosophy.

If it wasn't, you wouldn't see so many tracks with the sweeping not even close to being in sync with the music. Made more than one over in KHP for that reason.

The one that amazes me is the notice on the screen that due to copy write the lyrics are not included, and all you get is the music, even though you paid for a CDG...pray tell why bother to include it on the disc?