Proposed Standard Specifications for Flutter or Wow as Related to Sound Records: Report of the SMPE committee on Sound
Metadata
- Publisher
- SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
- Doc Type
- Journal Article
- Content Type
- Original Research
- Abbreviated Title
- J SMPE
- Volume
- 49, No. 2, pp. 147–159
- Abstract
- Distortion caused by speed variation in recording or reproducing has long been a serious source of quality degradation in sound recording. “Flutter” is the term most generally used for this type of distortion by the motion picture industry, while the broadcast recording field knows it as “wow”.
- Publication Date
- 1947-08-01
- DOI
10.5594/J17826- ISSN
- Print:
0097-5834 - Link
- https://doi.org/10.5594/J17826
- Copyright
- © 1947 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.
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