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Re: mastering for cheap cd players

Subject: Re: mastering for cheap cd players
From: Dan Dugan <>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 06:22:30 -0800
>  > http://home.comcast.net/~richpeet/0659.wav

It may be a type of analog audio distortion called slew rate 
distortion. It affects high-frequency, high-level material, adding a 
lower-frequency rasp to it. The peaks aren't clipped, but the slopes 
are flattened out at an angle, i.e. a sine wave is changed into a 
triangle wave. Easy to hear, hard to see on a complex waveform.

-Dan Dugan


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