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Re: Digital Distortion

Subject: Re: Digital Distortion
From: Klas Strandberg <>
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 00:17:05 +0200
Thanks Rich. Without having heard your file I think this is about the most
important topics to discuss.

I often feel digital sounds to be "itchy". Is that distortion?
It will be interesting to hear your files.

Klas

At 16:58 2003-06-20 -0000, you wrote:
>Many already know this stuff and can disregard this post.
>But for the ones out there that are fairly new to digital recording 
>take note that distortion in the digital world does not sound the 
>same as distortion sounds in the analog world.
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>In fact there are some well sold "famous" CD's out there on the 
>commercial market in natural sound that have a lot of digital 
>distortion.  Sometimes you have to know the critter to identify that 
>the recording is distorted and sometimes the people doing the 
>final "master" don't have a clue what a critter sounds like.
>
>Linked is a stereo 400kb wave download that is distorted on both 
>tracks.  One track is clearly more so but looking at the spectral 
>display can make you wonder a long time how the computer made the 
>bird sound like that. 
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>http://home.attbi.com/~richpeet/distortion.wav
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>I hope this post helps someone avoid recording that perfect sound 
>that ends up being more techno-garbage.
>
>Rich Peet
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