[ChewToy]

(this is a repost, i feel like i'll get better responses in this forum)

Once you've upgraded your phones, source and whatnot, whats the wierdest thing you've picked up in the background of your favorite recordings? I've read about people hearing cars going by in the background and things like bracelets jingling. What have you heard?

(don't forget to describe your setup, and what album/song)

 

[ServinginEcuador]

Noises like the lips of singers that you can hear, in classical music people dropping their bows or music, etc.

The cool part is hearing parts that were MEANT to be heard, but so low that the cheaper stuff couldn't retrienve it. Nothing like hearing another keyboard you never heard WAY in the background. Or hearing another singer separated from the rest. Hearing instruments like a triangle or such that blurred into the rest of the music brought into your hearing finally. Etc.

 

[andrzejpw]

I agree with ServinginEcuador: a lot of the time the coolest things you hear are the ones that were meant to be heard in the first place. It's quite stunning when you go back and forth between a crappy system and your home rig and dig out all of the lost details. Otoh, it is quite interesting to hear those "oops" sounds. Hearing pages turn is quite interesting.

 

[MusicLover]

Not necessarily weird, but the most annoying thing that you sometimes hear in the background is someone coughing or breathing loudly. it takes a lot away from the music.

 

[Sugano-san]

Crosstalk:

1.) At the very end of "Dark Side of the Moon", you can hear a pop song. I was made aware of it by a review of the latest multichannel version of DSOTM in Hifi News, where it was described as "Ticket to Ride". I listened to it, and I can safely say that I can recognize that it is in fact some pop song, but it's certainly not "Ticket to Ride", and judging from the ultralow volume and the sound, it can only be crosstalk (maybe a previous recording on another track of the tape used back then), and I just cannot imagine that it was part of the artistic intention, because you cannot really hear it, unlike the other low-volume bits on that album, which are much better audible and clearly intentional.

2.) There is a similar effect on the 1981 recording of the "Goldberg Variations" by Glenn Gould, but I forgot where exactly (I noticed this approx. 15 years ago). Again, it sounds like crosstalk from another source or whatever in the same studio, it's extremely low in volume and you cannot make out a lot of detail, but IIRC it's brass music or big band music.


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[Dick Scratcher]

Alice Cooper - Welome To My Nightmare. After Vincent Price's preamble on Black Widow it sounds like Alice has way too much spit bouncing round in his gob.

 

[bangraman]

It probably has to be this example...

Recording Method: Mics->Mixdown board->DAT->digital upload to PC->process->CD
Recording: Friend's jazz band recital
Noise revealed: Breaking wind from probably the guitarist. Quite a long drawn out one, you probably know the type. I think he was timing it with the sax bursts.
System: Arcam CD92 -> (then newly) DIY'd amp -> HD600

 

[bong]

On Siouxsie and the Banshees' song "Slowdive," they hired a string section for that frantic string sound, and during a pause in the middle of the song, you can head one of the violin players exclaim "Oh My God!" in the background. her arm must've felt like it was about to come off from playing at such a fast pace. its somewhat audible on crappy equipment, but is crystal clear on good equipment.

other stuff is hearing bits of (indescipherable) conversation during the instrumental passages of New Order's "Procession." It is very subtle, but stood out so well when i was listening to it on my D-777 using the MDR-7506. it was something i've never noticed about the song in many years until recently, even from listening to it on my brother's excellent home theatre. i had to take off my phones just to make sure no one was in the room with me!

 

[chillysalsa]

Has anyone every noticed the bandmates giving each other cues and yacking away in the background of Oscar Peterson albums? Night Train and Canadian Suite are the two I have noticed that on...

 

[stark16]

C541i-->MG Head OTL MkII-->HD600 w/Equinox cable

Soundtrack to Tous les matins du monde , Track 2 - Improvisations sur les folies d'Espagne

While I've always noticed the breathing of the performer, it is really much more pronounced with my new setup. Normally this is something I've come to appreciate. However with this track it is so loud that, depending on my mood, it can be really distracting.

Btw, this happens to be a great movie and wonderful soundtrack IMHO.

 

[loveheadphones]

tool - sober

maynard yelling "turn that crap down" during climax

 

[kenchi1983]

I hear most of the background noise with my grado's. It's usually sounds like musicians turning the pages (in classical), and the breathing (in wind instruments).

but i think most of you can hear that too. hehe.

 

[immtbiker]

In Stevie Ray Vaughn's post-mortum release : "The Sky Is Crying"...on the Hendrix song "Little Wing", you can hear the buzz and hum of Stevie's Fender Twin Reverb.

In David Sanborn's album "Inside" on the song "When I'm With You"...you here a sound behind you that sounds like pebbles of plaster falling in between the walls when you are hammering in a nail, that I have not heard on my better than average home system.

 

[Mastergill]

Yes as Sugano-san said at the end of Dark Side of the Moon (mfsl gold disc!) there's a very faint tune we can hear. I've notice it since i've got the Manley, but yeah that's definitely not ticket to ride...just wait i've got my new Cardas Golden Ref. IC and i will tell you!!

 

[Mike Scarpitti]

Quote:

Originally posted by ChewToy (this is a repost, i feel like i'll get better responses in this forum) Once you've upgraded your phones, source and whatnot, whats the wierdest thing you've picked up in the background of your favorite recordings? I've read about people hearing cars going by in the background and things like bracelets jingling. What have you heard? (don't forget to describe your setup, and what album/song)

In the first Phil Collins solo album, 'Face Value', you can hear somebody tap on the glass in the studio and say 'quiet' just before 'the Roof is Leaking' song begins. Stax Lambda's.

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