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Not only that, but modern digital recordings often digitally add a track of tape hiss to warm up the sound. I don't mean a distortion plugin or anything, I mean
by twerquie 14y ago
Not only that, but modern digital recordings often digitally add a track of tape hiss to warm up the sound. I don't mean a distortion plugin or anything, I mean a recording of a 2" tape machine playing nothing but hiss!
That being said, I agree with masklinn, we do this because people are used to hearing it, not because hiss is intrinsically good sounding.
Will the children of the early 2000s grow to yearn for the sound of 128kb MP3?
- mprovost 14y agoAt least one study has shown that younger listeners prefer the 'sizzle' sound of MP3s over higher quality recordings, presumably because it's what they're used to. http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/03/the-sizzling-sound-of-music.html http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/03/the-sizzling-sound-of-music...