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Posted by Dj Nacht on Oct-22-2011 20:00:

Sound Quality Question

Ok listen to this song at 1:25 and any volume. Why do the highs make my ears want to bleed? It not the first time I hear this phenomenon but WTF is it? Clipping? The original song can't be like that?

Posted by Looney4Clooney on Oct-22-2011 20:27:

there is no high end in that track. Sounds like everything about 8k is gone. A bad vynil rip compressed via the mp3 conversion.

Posted by Dj Nacht on Oct-23-2011 20:05:

MP3 conversion shouldn't be doing something like that though, no?
The poor vinyl rip definitely makes sense especially if they are not watching their levels.

Posted by Morvan on Oct-23-2011 21:32:

That open hat with ride-like qualities that's panned to the right is just annoying at that point. The various stages of conversion might have distorted it or it was clipping. I can hear various clipping artifacts throughout the track, though.

Posted by Dj Nacht on Oct-23-2011 22:51:

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Originally posted by Morvan
That open hat with ride-like qualities that's panned to the right is just annoying at that point. The various stages of conversion might have distorted it or it was clipping. I can hear various clipping artifacts throughout the track, though.

I don't understand why people would upload something that doesn't sound right. Is this pure ignorance or laziness?

Maybe uploading songs to youtube does something to the quality as well.

Posted by skyhunter on Oct-24-2011 01:53:

quote:
Originally posted by Dj Nacht
I don't understand why people would upload something that doesn't sound right. Is this pure ignorance or laziness?

Maybe uploading songs to youtube does something to the quality as well.

Yes, youtube murders quality. Bad vinyl rip murders quality. Low quality mp3 (you guessed it) murders quality. Add all those up and it sounds bad. Most people don't care though.