Raimund Specht wrote:
> It seems, that this recording was originally recorded with a
> MiniDisk system (or subsequently saved as a MP3 file). This can be
> seen on the spectrogram from the boxy "noise reduction" patterns at
> higher frequencies. I guess, that the clipping already occurred
> during recording in the analog path of the pre-amplifier. When an
> over-modulated sound is fed into an A/D converter and then encoded
> using ATRAC, the resulting signals may sound very strange.
> Obviously, the analog clipping created very intensive broad-band
> noise which was then further distorted by the MiniDisk data
> reduction system.
It does not take ATRAC or MP3 to do this. I've seen and heard the same
thing from DAT.
Walt
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