Um. Kioku no Umi is an amazing composition and orchestration, but its mix is way too low-fi for a tolerable nightcore mix. The dynamic compression and straight-up distortion on the original track is basically a felony against music. These issues are only compounded when you undersample it (i.e., speed it up). I would pay damn good money for a new recording of the song with the same orchestration.
@@iandrsaurri625 Great question, and that's an easy misunderstanding! The same source (i.e., orchestra performance) will not in general produce the same recording (i.e., track), because no recording is perfect. Old analog recordings use a different jargon for their engineering limits, but modern digital audio signals broadly have a few limits: bit depth, sampling frequency/bandwidth, and point spread function. Bandwidth is constant for CD-grade recordings, held just above what our ears can hear. (Very high pitches inaudible to humans, like bat chirps, won't make it to the track!) So this won't improve in a re-recording. Point spread function is more a result of the analog equipment. Room reverb causes a sort of "fullness" or even echo, but a bad mic can cause similar smearing of sound. Imagine recording voice from under a table versus in their face, that's a point spread function change. Bit depth is where Kioku no Umi has problems, iirc. All digital audio stores air pressure values as numbers. The precision of those numbers (how many different numbers describe the continuous pressure grade) is the bit depth. Imagine a smooth ramp that we turn into a staircase. If the stairs are small enough, it still looks like a slow ramp. If there's only a top stair and bottom stair, then we've made something that looks more like a curb, or a wall! Kioku no Umi has points in its audio where the sound wave is heavily distorted--turned from a slope into a grating, grinding wall. (It also has clipping, which happens when we run out of stairs and half the ramp is kept at its highest point, instead of continuing higher.)
@@pondrthis1 Ohh so in layman terms, since the audio is from around 2007 and before (when anime came out) the recording can be recorded with higher quality now in 2020? That makes sense. Personally I think the original track sounds beautiful and I can't hear the faults (I'm not an audiophile) but, if they recorded it now and remastered it, it'd probably sound better. That makes sense
@@iandrsaurri625 you've nailed it, although I would argue the original recording was low-quality even for 2007. More like early 80's! But I agree, it's a beautiful song regardless of recording problems.
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Um. Kioku no Umi is an amazing composition and orchestration, but its mix is way too low-fi for a tolerable nightcore mix. The dynamic compression and straight-up distortion on the original track is basically a felony against music. These issues are only compounded when you undersample it (i.e., speed it up).
I would pay damn good money for a new recording of the song with the same orchestration.
Why and how exactly would you want it rerecorded? Isn't it gonna sound more less the same, recording the song with the same orchestration again?
@@iandrsaurri625 Great question, and that's an easy misunderstanding! The same source (i.e., orchestra performance) will not in general produce the same recording (i.e., track), because no recording is perfect. Old analog recordings use a different jargon for their engineering limits, but modern digital audio signals broadly have a few limits: bit depth, sampling frequency/bandwidth, and point spread function.
Bandwidth is constant for CD-grade recordings, held just above what our ears can hear. (Very high pitches inaudible to humans, like bat chirps, won't make it to the track!) So this won't improve in a re-recording.
Point spread function is more a result of the analog equipment. Room reverb causes a sort of "fullness" or even echo, but a bad mic can cause similar smearing of sound. Imagine recording voice from under a table versus in their face, that's a point spread function change.
Bit depth is where Kioku no Umi has problems, iirc. All digital audio stores air pressure values as numbers. The precision of those numbers (how many different numbers describe the continuous pressure grade) is the bit depth. Imagine a smooth ramp that we turn into a staircase. If the stairs are small enough, it still looks like a slow ramp. If there's only a top stair and bottom stair, then we've made something that looks more like a curb, or a wall! Kioku no Umi has points in its audio where the sound wave is heavily distorted--turned from a slope into a grating, grinding wall. (It also has clipping, which happens when we run out of stairs and half the ramp is kept at its highest point, instead of continuing higher.)
@@pondrthis1 Ohh so in layman terms, since the audio is from around 2007 and before (when anime came out) the recording can be recorded with higher quality now in 2020? That makes sense. Personally I think the original track sounds beautiful and I can't hear the faults (I'm not an audiophile) but, if they recorded it now and remastered it, it'd probably sound better. That makes sense
@@iandrsaurri625 you've nailed it, although I would argue the original recording was low-quality even for 2007. More like early 80's!
But I agree, it's a beautiful song regardless of recording problems.
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