May not be phase on second listen. Vocal is bouncing left right and center. Many clicks and background noises. All of which may be intentional or just rotten mixing.
Agreed that's what it sounds like, but I think it's done through mixing/electronically. Possibly trying to make an AI voice sound less like a computer generated it.
I pressed the mono button on my speaker controller and it didn't cancel, so it's not out of phase, I think the voice is actually stretched back and forth on the opposite sides. Or maybe recorded / AI generated twice. And it's probably intentional because it goes to the centre on certain phrases.
I have some budget vinyl records that were originally recorded in mono but re-issued in stereo. Well, how did they do that? A more crude way of how it was done in this video. One method is splitting the frequencies into left and right channels. Another is just to quickly alternate the mono recording left and right to create an echo stereo effect. One video on my channel was so bad, I went back and did a quick remaster to make it more tolerable for people listening on headphones.
Sounds out of phase to me which will mean in mono it will be either very phased or inaudible. Is it deliberate? It could be; stereo listeners will get the sound from around the room not coming from one particular place and perhaps they’re not aiming at mono listeners or wanted to sound a bit spooky. Do I like it? Artistic license excepted, but I’m a bit of a purist, I don’t like aftermarket effects but when it comes to an advert effects are ok. Whilst I’m on the subject, if you’re listening to short wave or AM radio on an SDR when there is fading by setting your SDR to put one sideband on one channel and the other sideband on the other channel results in very little fading, though you do get the centre image moving around. Overall, it’s a massive improvement when listening to short wave radio.
It’s going for surround effect and is intentional. Listen on surround system- panned/phased voice plus slightly delayed center causes perception of 3 points of origin. Terrible in stereo, kinda cool in surround.
1.- The problem: time changes, amplitude and phase changes, between the left and right channel. I hear several changes, everything starts in time between the L and R channels, and in phase, monophonic, then you can clearly hear the sounds coming from the left channel first and then from the right, there are clear changes in volume between the channels and there are also phase changes, then again everything in time and phase, in MONO and so it repeats but starting on the right channel. 2.- It is deliberate, it is not an accident. 3.- I don't like it
First of all, I would not call myself an audiophile because the music is my main interest, not the differences in gear. However, to get to a system which is capable of getting the best out of the recordings I have collected, I sometimes need to do the task of comparing different pieces of equipment. And I hear, people are called audiophiles when they are more interested in listening to how differences in equipment bring out different nuances in the same recording. Yes, I can hear the effect on the voice. It moves back and forth from center to edges, and it makes the voice sound doubled, like 4 tracks, to varying degrees over the running timeof the clip. I don't know how it is created nor can I be sure if it was done on purpose. Psychologically though, it is very attention-grabbing, so it probably was done on purpose for the ad. There is some pop music that has attention-grabbing elements in it that are not very musical, like the siren sounds in Christina Aguilera's "Dirty", and many more recent tracks I cannot name. I have never found the musical "Look at me!" approach of this kind of attention-grabbing through production to be particularly appealing. Now, let's have an idea for a future video regarding voice: I remember years ago at the train station downtown, they would play a test sound in one of the crowded corridors that had a voice talking, telling the passer-bys that they were trying out new techniques to make voice sound more audible over background noise levels of crowd and technical sounds, in this case, trains. Nowadays, when I turn on the TV or the radio, I get the feeling that the same techniques are being applied there to the voices with the goal to make them stand out and keep them understandable even when the speakers are placed in loud environments such as a car in traffic. How is this result actually achieved in voice production?
I kind of wondered if it was built from individual short samples by an AI... So it found and assembled the correct words but didn't notice or care that they were recorded in different formats or even different rooms... (Perhaps it was attempting to build the entire script from one word library but was forced to use some clips from another one that was less well matched.) (I don't know if it was really sloppy or if it was deliberate and intended to be annoying and disjointed enough to command our attention...)
Some intentional flanging of the audio is being applied against the vocals. So the delay switches in between the speakers, creating a dizzying experience. It's bad on speakers, but even worse on headphones. I need to lie down...
Their voice is kinda coming in and out of the centre channel - on my headphones it sounds as if it is coming intermittently from the centre channel and then it sounds as if there are just left left and right speakers angled away from me, maybe as if the voice is flipping from sounding 'internal' and 'external'.
The left & right are 180deg out of phase, probably inaudible on headphones, but if listening in mono, probably the channels cancel each other outs resulting in almost no Lucio. I doubt if it’s intentional, more likely created by someone only listening on headphones who is far less talented than they think. During my time at the BBC it was fe too common that internal on-line training videos etc suffered from the same problem. Whereas the monitoring selector on broadcast mixing consoles we used, had the option to phase reverse one speaker to enable the Studio Manager (mix engineer) to check for issues like this.
it sounds like the original recording was in mono and was given mid/side processing to try to force it to stereo, like they put it through a free plugin in Audacity...
I've recently heard of a new trend where music or whatever is panned and phased to give a constant state of movement around the listener. It's purported to give some sort of calming effect. I think it's just introducing the concept of what stereo can do to a whole generation or two who haven't been exposed to proper hifi sound
Listening via a pair of KZ ZSNs straight from a tablet, it seems the voice switches rapidly between left and right channels. Sounds garbled and I'd say it's deliberate.
My first question would be does the just for men hair coloring work with the new L’Oreal color sonic hair dye applicator? I think until that question is answered further audiophile analysis is impossible.
omg it sounds awful going left, right and behind like that, I've got no idea why and I hope it's not intentional, because I hate it :D It reminds me of the old virtual dolby surround tests, but switching very fast
It seems unintentional. It sounds like a good voice recording was mixed with stereo woosh sound effects, then an automated "make it sound good" process struggled with the sound FX, causing issues with the voice track.
Ordinarily I use accessibility settings to sum the L and R channels and listen monaurally with closed-back headphones. Under those circumstances it sounds like band-passing, which suggests a Left/Right phasing issue. But no! After listening monaurally, solely to the left channel, I agree with VictoriaQ...'s explanation. It sounds like rapid auto-panning. I bet the effect could be reversed with a corresponding, phase-inverted auto-pan. Good one!
The stereo image is in and out, phase issue? a bit annoying to hear as a pure hardcore audiophile. I listened through a google chrome book as not to cheat.
The sound on both speakers is not the same, so there is this weird spatial effect. But not consistent. You would want that to be mono. It's really weird.
The voice moves around, it goes from the middle to both sides etc. I would guess a phase change? I think it would have to be deliberate. No I dont like it. I am an audio enthusiast.🙂
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maybe Talking Person moving around microfone, not sitting still... left-right panning changes... sounds a bit like 360 audio on amazon over earphones.. maybe out of phase? Sounds not good to me. maybe intentional for creating more attention for the ad? I am not an Audio engineer..
It sounds like one of those circle effects where the left and right channel switch around. I'd say if the mic was not spinning it was added on purpose. It also sounded a tad distorted at times, like it was clipping. I didn't listen on headphones but on a iMac with stereo speakers. Let me fix that... On headphones, AKG 141, it sounds more accidental, since the switching seems a bit random. I can still hear some clipping in the treble range? Also it sounds filtered, maybe some noise filter to remove background sounds?
That's horrible to listen to! It starts OK then some weird phasing and timing goes on. It's not a simply 180° phase variance either; it's like there has been a delay put in then run out of phase between the two delays. A simple out of phase would only make the dialogue sound wide, or unlocalised however this also seems to feature some kind of echo. It would take time and effort to produce this effect so I don't think it's accidental; perhaps attention grabbing by design? It would be interesting to play it through a Dolby Pro Logic, or other matrix multichannel decoder to hear which speakers the dialogue comes from.
I can hear it, but I don't think it's mono in opposite phase. I suspect the voice would be audible in mono (though I haven't checked). It's not consistent. So is it stereo mics set up wrong, or is it an intentional stereo widening effect to make it stand out more, or make it sound more like user generated content, ie. less professional, so you thing it's a normal person who succeeded and trust them, rather than someone scamming you, which is probably what is actually happening from this kind of get rich quick from this bogus training scheme ad.
Sounds like they mounted the microphone in the bottom of a large McDonald's coke cup. Then recorded it on a potato. Then compressed the heck out of it and cut the gaps out so much that some words almost overlap. Its truly awful. Or is it supposed to sound like she was giving the information over the phone while walking?
I wonder how she recorded this. It makes me dizzy. No consistency with staging. Seems to me that this was recorded in mono and processed digitally to stereo, which causes it to sound very unbalanced
Sounds like a scam to make you listen closely to an add you would otherwise skip. Audiophiles train themselves to critically listen, normal people dont therefore audiophiles will catch more details
Your point about skipping is something I hadn't considered. I don't think it would work on anyone who cares about sound, but the target market, maybe so.
I don't know what is the problem but her voice is obnoxiously paning from left to right and has uneven volume level. It sounds like some warped flanger effect or something like that. Doesn't sound pleasant to me.
1. It's terrible, Caused by inconsistences Phase manipulation effect and also it switches randomly from full mono to this terrible effect. 2. I Tried it on Multi channel (Dolby, DTS and other processes) to see if there is any link to the original video visual: no link, on multi channel it switches to ambient speakers back and forth.. 3. It Seems that the video was heavily edited visually and parts of its soundtrack were recorded with this effect and other parts at mono. 4. when The effect is on, It seems there is a correlation between the Voice Pitch and level of phase shifting (The higher The Pitch is the higher the phase shift is there). 5. You do not need to be an audiophile to notice the bad effect. You may need to have some audio education to analyze what is going on. Thank you for this interesting video.
I regret listening to that with headphones. I'm guessing they did that on purpose as a catchy thing to keep you from getting bored, but it sounds like shit. I thought it was a phase issue, but somebody else in the comments said it's still there in mono.
The voice is drifting left/right, sounds a bit underwater like a flanger was applied, and finally it definitely sounds like an AI generated unnatural voice to me.
You seem to love doing these "You're not an audiophile if you can't hear this" videos, so I have one for YOU. It's the famous "Blue" album by Joni Mitchell. Can YOU hear the fault i this recording? I heard it within seconds. This one should be easy for a seasoned vet such as yourself. ua-cam.com/video/G5084WbyZM8/v-deo.html
Well I've done this twice, both with problems that should be obvious to anyone with half-decent equipment and half-decent hearing. The obvious problem with Blue is that the sound is harsh. Anything else I can put up with for the sake of Joni's art. If you're looking for something more subtle, let me know and I'll take another listen.
Im not an audiphile but that was a bit irritating to listen to. Im hoping that it was done purposefully. Just sounded all wonky. Jumping around for no apparent reason.
I guarantee it is deliberate. Everything advertisers do in this era is annoying by intention to get attention. Makes me glad my right speaker has died on my venerable old thinkpad although I didn't watch this video there. In case I stumble onto that dumb ad I won't hear the weird stereo perturbations. Voice sounds AI generated to me anyway. Why would an AI want to make money while it sleeps?
WTF? 3. Makes me want to vomit. 2. It has to be deliberate, because the way it's modulated isn't random. 1. I don't even care, just make it stop. It's like a parallel to autotune for horror soundtracks, the implicit message is _all humans must die._
Apart from the money you make from us watching your video and commenting on it 🤣 Please try to stop going on about how much money you are not making... I'm pretty sure most of your listeners don't care that much and if they do care then they watch via a brave browser 😉 That aside it's a horrid sound track, I guess the narration has been made in mono in a number of languages via AI then munged (mixed) in with stereo sound effects... I didn't like it... Maybe you can do a piece on why some audiophiles prefer the authenticity of reel to reel tape... I heard George Harrison's son being interviewed on 6music the other day and they asked him about all his dad's master tapes, he said they were kept in special climate controlled storage but he had had them digitised years ago and that's what he was working off to produce remastered stuff etc. I'm looking forward to your explanation of the audio 😀
I like the German Apple 1C 192-04 707/8/9 Y pressings the best. Still has Spector's Wall of Sound which I like better than his son's remastered version.
What my viewers do care about is whether I'm promoting stuff for money without disclosing it. I know that from my comments. To be clear, I get a share of the ad revenue from my videos and commission from affiliate links. The stuff I review, I get for free. And that's it, no other payments. I mentioned that this is a 'make money while you sleep' ad so that this is upfront and viewers don't have to discover it for themselves if they watch the whole ad. My interest here is solely in the technical quality of the audio.
That's interesting to hear, I'm not experienced with vinyl anymore, but I can relate to albums being re-released after 50 years using the original tapes, I did hear the vinyl 50 years ago but my hifi was more lowfi than hifi so when I got the cd versions over 35 years ago they sounded amazing, but on re mastering and re mixing in the last couple of years some have been a big disappointment to me and others have been a huge improvement on the first CD version, I think the actual re mix may have a bigger effect than I imagined...
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This would drive me crazy if a whole audiobook was recorded like that.
That would be 'refund time".
May not be phase on second listen. Vocal is bouncing left right and center. Many clicks and background noises. All of which may be intentional or just rotten mixing.
Agreed that's what it sounds like, but I think it's done through mixing/electronically. Possibly trying to make an AI voice sound less like a computer generated it.
I pressed the mono button on my speaker controller and it didn't cancel, so it's not out of phase, I think the voice is actually stretched back and forth on the opposite sides. Or maybe recorded / AI generated twice. And it's probably intentional because it goes to the centre on certain phrases.
It is out of phase ... but there is also a very short l-r and r-l delay at work, so it won't cancel in mono.
Is it possibly someone walking around stereo mics while talking?
I have some budget vinyl records that were originally recorded in mono but re-issued in stereo. Well, how did they do that? A more crude way of how it was done in this video. One method is splitting the frequencies into left and right channels. Another is just to quickly alternate the mono recording left and right to create an echo stereo effect. One video on my channel was so bad, I went back and did a quick remaster to make it more tolerable for people listening on headphones.
Sounds out of phase to me which will mean in mono it will be either very phased or inaudible.
Is it deliberate? It could be; stereo listeners will get the sound from around the room not coming from one particular place and perhaps they’re not aiming at mono listeners or wanted to sound a bit spooky.
Do I like it? Artistic license excepted, but I’m a bit of a purist, I don’t like aftermarket effects but when it comes to an advert effects are ok.
Whilst I’m on the subject, if you’re listening to short wave or AM radio on an SDR when there is fading by setting your SDR to put one sideband on one channel and the other sideband on the other channel results in very little fading, though you do get the centre image moving around. Overall, it’s a massive improvement when listening to short wave radio.
It’s going for surround effect and is intentional. Listen on surround system- panned/phased voice plus slightly delayed center causes perception of 3 points of origin. Terrible in stereo, kinda cool in surround.
I listen to this on a mano cell phone and it still sounds weird like the voice is fluttering.
1.- The problem: time changes, amplitude and phase changes, between the left and right channel. I hear several changes, everything starts in time between the L and R channels, and in phase, monophonic, then you can clearly hear the sounds coming from the left channel first and then from the right, there are clear changes in volume between the channels and there are also phase changes, then again everything in time and phase, in MONO and so it repeats but starting on the right channel.
2.- It is deliberate, it is not an accident.
3.- I don't like it
First of all, I would not call myself an audiophile because the music is my main interest, not the differences in gear. However, to get to a system which is capable of getting the best out of the recordings I have collected, I sometimes need to do the task of comparing different pieces of equipment. And I hear, people are called audiophiles when they are more interested in listening to how differences in equipment bring out different nuances in the same recording.
Yes, I can hear the effect on the voice. It moves back and forth from center to edges, and it makes the voice sound doubled, like 4 tracks, to varying degrees over the running timeof the clip. I don't know how it is created nor can I be sure if it was done on purpose. Psychologically though, it is very attention-grabbing, so it probably was done on purpose for the ad.
There is some pop music that has attention-grabbing elements in it that are not very musical, like the siren sounds in Christina Aguilera's "Dirty", and many more recent tracks I cannot name. I have never found the musical "Look at me!" approach of this kind of attention-grabbing through production to be particularly appealing.
Now, let's have an idea for a future video regarding voice:
I remember years ago at the train station downtown, they would play a test sound in one of the crowded corridors that had a voice talking, telling the passer-bys that they were trying out new techniques to make voice sound more audible over background noise levels of crowd and technical sounds, in this case, trains. Nowadays, when I turn on the TV or the radio, I get the feeling that the same techniques are being applied there to the voices with the goal to make them stand out and keep them understandable even when the speakers are placed in loud environments such as a car in traffic. How is this result actually achieved in voice production?
I kind of wondered if it was built from individual short samples by an AI...
So it found and assembled the correct words but didn't notice or care that they were recorded in different formats or even different rooms...
(Perhaps it was attempting to build the entire script from one word library but was forced to use some clips from another one that was less well matched.)
(I don't know if it was really sloppy or if it was deliberate and intended to be annoying and disjointed enough to command our attention...)
Some intentional flanging of the audio is being applied against the vocals. So the delay switches in between the speakers, creating a dizzying experience. It's bad on speakers, but even worse on headphones. I need to lie down...
Might also be an EQ level going up and down. Seems like some parts have more bass and others have less bass with higher highs.
Their voice is kinda coming in and out of the centre channel - on my headphones it sounds as if it is coming intermittently from the centre channel and then it sounds as if there are just left left and right speakers angled away from me, maybe as if the voice is flipping from sounding 'internal' and 'external'.
The left & right are 180deg out of phase,
probably inaudible on headphones,
but if listening in mono, probably the channels cancel each other outs resulting in almost no Lucio.
I doubt if it’s intentional, more likely created by someone only listening on headphones who is far less talented than they think.
During my time at the BBC it was fe too common that internal on-line training videos etc suffered from the same problem.
Whereas the monitoring selector on broadcast mixing consoles we used, had the option to phase reverse one speaker to enable the Studio Manager (mix engineer) to check for issues like this.
FYI, it's *very* audible on head phones. And switching randomly between mono and either stereo or reverse polarity between L and R.
@@anahatamelodeon I should have said cheep headphones.
it sounds like the original recording was in mono and was given mid/side processing to try to force it to stereo, like they put it through a free plugin in Audacity...
I've recently heard of a new trend where music or whatever is panned and phased to give a constant state of movement around the listener. It's purported to give some sort of calming effect. I think it's just introducing the concept of what stereo can do to a whole generation or two who haven't been exposed to proper hifi sound
Listening via a pair of KZ ZSNs straight from a tablet, it seems the voice switches rapidly between left and right channels. Sounds garbled and I'd say it's deliberate.
My first question would be does the just for men hair coloring work with the new L’Oreal color sonic hair dye applicator? I think until that question is answered further audiophile analysis is impossible.
When L'Oreal sends me one to review I shall review it. If they can find me a titanium white shade to apply with it, so much the better.
That has to be deliberate otherwise the producer of the ad can only hear in mono while fiddling with the mix.
It sounds like M/S processed stereo audio where the mid signal is shorting out
omg it sounds awful going left, right and behind like that, I've got no idea why and I hope it's not intentional, because I hate it :D It reminds me of the old virtual dolby surround tests, but switching very fast
It seems unintentional. It sounds like a good voice recording was mixed with stereo woosh sound effects, then an automated "make it sound good" process struggled with the sound FX, causing issues with the voice track.
Ordinarily I use accessibility settings to sum the L and R channels and listen monaurally with closed-back headphones. Under those circumstances it sounds like band-passing, which suggests a Left/Right phasing issue. But no! After listening monaurally, solely to the left channel, I agree with VictoriaQ...'s explanation. It sounds like rapid auto-panning. I bet the effect could be reversed with a corresponding, phase-inverted auto-pan. Good one!
Moving around too close to a handheld stereo microphone causing phase shifts and panning effects.
Or, perhaps, a really bad attempt at fixing it.
This reminds me of poor virtual surround sound processing of stereo on some old cheap AVRs. Some sort of DSP gone askew maybe?
To my ears it sounds like they have used a de-reverb plugin and in the process it has caused major phase issues.
Maybe it was a point being made like 'My Baby's Taking Me Home' by Sparks.
The stereo image is in and out, phase issue? a bit annoying to hear as a pure hardcore audiophile. I listened through a google chrome book as not to cheat.
The sound on both speakers is not the same, so there is this weird spatial effect. But not consistent. You would want that to be mono. It's really weird.
Plus it's probably multilevel marketing a.k.a a pyramid scheme
Provided whoever mixed this made any money off it, he earned money in his sleep. Bouncing the voice back and forth like that does not make me happy.
The voice moves around, it goes from the middle to both sides etc. I would guess a phase change? I think it would have to be deliberate. No I dont like it. I am an audio enthusiast.🙂
When are we going to hear your thoughts on 'Audiophile Network Switches' ?
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maybe Talking Person moving around microfone, not sitting still... left-right panning changes... sounds a bit like 360 audio on amazon over earphones.. maybe out of phase? Sounds not good to me. maybe intentional for creating more attention for the ad? I am not an Audio engineer..
Weird phase shifting or phasing, and panning at the voice - it is intention - Good to get attention
It sounds like one of those circle effects where the left and right channel switch around. I'd say if the mic was not spinning it was added on purpose. It also sounded a tad distorted at times, like it was clipping.
I didn't listen on headphones but on a iMac with stereo speakers. Let me fix that...
On headphones, AKG 141, it sounds more accidental, since the switching seems a bit random. I can still hear some clipping in the treble range?
Also it sounds filtered, maybe some noise filter to remove background sounds?
That's horrible to listen to!
It starts OK then some weird phasing and timing goes on. It's not a simply 180° phase variance either; it's like there has been a delay put in then run out of phase between the two delays. A simple out of phase would only make the dialogue sound wide, or unlocalised however this also seems to feature some kind of echo. It would take time and effort to produce this effect so I don't think it's accidental; perhaps attention grabbing by design?
It would be interesting to play it through a Dolby Pro Logic, or other matrix multichannel decoder to hear which speakers the dialogue comes from.
Someones found the Mic Pan knob on the mixer. LOL.
I can hear it, but I don't think it's mono in opposite phase. I suspect the voice would be audible in mono (though I haven't checked). It's not consistent. So is it stereo mics set up wrong, or is it an intentional stereo widening effect to make it stand out more, or make it sound more like user generated content, ie. less professional, so you thing it's a normal person who succeeded and trust them, rather than someone scamming you, which is probably what is actually happening from this kind of get rich quick from this bogus training scheme ad.
Sounds like they mounted the microphone in the bottom of a large McDonald's coke cup. Then recorded it on a potato. Then compressed the heck out of it and cut the gaps out so much that some words almost overlap.
Its truly awful. Or is it supposed to sound like she was giving the information over the phone while walking?
this hurts to listen to. The spatial changes and the audio bouncing around and the left speaker seems to be dropping her voice many times per second
I wonder how she recorded this. It makes me dizzy. No consistency with staging. Seems to me that this was recorded in mono and processed digitally to stereo, which causes it to sound very unbalanced
Sounds like a scam to make you listen closely to an add you would otherwise skip. Audiophiles train themselves to critically listen, normal people dont therefore audiophiles will catch more details
Your point about skipping is something I hadn't considered. I don't think it would work on anyone who cares about sound, but the target market, maybe so.
pardon?
I don't know what is the problem but her voice is obnoxiously paning from left to right and has uneven volume level. It sounds like some warped flanger effect or something like that. Doesn't sound pleasant to me.
It's a mess. Can't imagine that it was done intentionally. As others have said, possibly an AI cock-up?
It almost sounds like Quad audio.
There are phase and dubbing problems, it's terrible 🙉🙉🙉
I feel like I am on a audio rollercoaster 🤣
Playing with the pan?… deliberate🤷🏾♂️
1. It's terrible, Caused by inconsistences Phase manipulation effect and also it switches randomly from full mono to this terrible effect.
2. I Tried it on Multi channel (Dolby, DTS and other processes) to see if there is any link to the original video visual: no link, on multi channel it switches to ambient speakers back and forth..
3. It Seems that the video was heavily edited visually and parts of its soundtrack were recorded with this effect and other parts at mono.
4. when The effect is on, It seems there is a correlation between the Voice Pitch and level of phase shifting (The higher The Pitch is the higher the phase shift is there).
5. You do not need to be an audiophile to notice the bad effect. You may need to have some audio education to analyze what is going on.
Thank you for this interesting video.
Thanks on behalf of the simple folk. :))
On point 5: No need for said analysis.
it drifts in and out of phase and makes me think its ai generated
I regret listening to that with headphones. I'm guessing they did that on purpose as a catchy thing to keep you from getting bored, but it sounds like shit. I thought it was a phase issue, but somebody else in the comments said it's still there in mono.
The voice is drifting left/right, sounds a bit underwater like a flanger was applied, and finally it definitely sounds like an AI generated unnatural voice to me.
You seem to love doing these "You're not an audiophile if you can't hear this" videos, so I have one for YOU.
It's the famous "Blue" album by Joni Mitchell.
Can YOU hear the fault i this recording?
I heard it within seconds.
This one should be easy for a seasoned vet such as yourself.
ua-cam.com/video/G5084WbyZM8/v-deo.html
Well I've done this twice, both with problems that should be obvious to anyone with half-decent equipment and half-decent hearing. The obvious problem with Blue is that the sound is harsh. Anything else I can put up with for the sake of Joni's art. If you're looking for something more subtle, let me know and I'll take another listen.
Made me feel dizzy.
It sounds like she's having a nightmare "while making money".
Y’all talk amongst yourselves whilst the staff corrects the phase, and I find another less painful video to watch.
Im not an audiphile but that was a bit irritating to listen to. Im hoping that it was done purposefully. Just sounded all wonky. Jumping around for no apparent reason.
You don't need to be an audiophile to hear this fault. Stands out like a sore thumb. And makes me sea sick.
Annoying! The voice seems to be wavering between the speakers.
I guarantee it is deliberate. Everything advertisers do in this era is annoying by intention to get attention. Makes me glad my right speaker has died on my venerable old thinkpad although I didn't watch this video there. In case I stumble onto that dumb ad I won't hear the weird stereo perturbations. Voice sounds AI generated to me anyway. Why would an AI want to make money while it sleeps?
AI screwed up
WTF? 3. Makes me want to vomit. 2. It has to be deliberate, because the way it's modulated isn't random. 1. I don't even care, just make it stop. It's like a parallel to autotune for horror soundtracks, the implicit message is _all humans must die._
A rookie AI mixing engineer? 😂
AI
The scourge of stereo salesman everywhere… The channels are out of phase with each other and it’s annoying as can be. I hope it’s not deliberate.
3. horrible
Don't know why and what it is.
What ever it is, it's annoying as all get out.
She has a VERY annoying thin, high pitched vocal fry affected voice. I await the day when an AI driven plugin can at least remove the vocal fry.
It's garbage audio created for a garbage use, Therefore not worth consideration as most will likely click past it realizing it as grift advertisement.
Sounds like ai junk
it's oddibly orrible.
Apart from the money you make from us watching your video and commenting on it 🤣
Please try to stop going on about how much money you are not making... I'm pretty sure most of your listeners don't care that much and if they do care then they watch via a brave browser 😉
That aside it's a horrid sound track, I guess the narration has been made in mono in a number of languages via AI then munged (mixed) in with stereo sound effects... I didn't like it...
Maybe you can do a piece on why some audiophiles prefer the authenticity of reel to reel tape...
I heard George Harrison's son being interviewed on 6music the other day and they asked him about all his dad's master tapes, he said they were kept in special climate controlled storage but he had had them digitised years ago and that's what he was working off to produce remastered stuff etc.
I'm looking forward to your explanation of the audio 😀
I like the German Apple 1C 192-04 707/8/9 Y pressings the best. Still has Spector's Wall of Sound which I like better than his son's remastered version.
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That's interesting to hear, I'm not experienced with vinyl anymore, but I can relate to albums being re-released after 50 years using the original tapes, I did hear the vinyl 50 years ago but my hifi was more lowfi than hifi so when I got the cd versions over 35 years ago they sounded amazing, but on re mastering and re mixing in the last couple of years some have been a big disappointment to me and others have been a huge improvement on the first CD version, I think the actual re mix may have a bigger effect than I imagined...