I have tinnitus and so I started listening to a lot of white noise when I fell asleep - like ocean or train tracks or whatever. I started hearing these reactive noises during the day (like someone tossing nails on concrete). I noticed that the reactive noises happen a bit while listening to those white noises at night so I stopped listening to them and switched to music. Over the next couple of weeks the reactive sounds from the wind, car engines, running water, and other white noise went down a lot in my day to day life. I waited a while to post because I wanted to make sure it wasn't a fluke. I had them since February and they only started getting better after I switched to more dynamic sounds to fall asleep to. It's not loud, I just have it loud enough so it mixes with the tinnitus and I can fall asleep. I try to keep the music as quiet as possible (made a spotify playlist to shuffle). I still have the regular tinnitus and am trying to figure it out.
I'm not sure which medication does it, but music sounds distorted for me and I don't "feel" the music anymore. Guitar and bass sound off, drums sound kind of muted, and vocals can sound kind of like I'm in a tunnel. Has anyone else experienced this? I'm on 250 mg Lamictal and 15 mg Abilify.
Hello everyone! I understand there's a podcasting subreddit, but I wanted to get more audio people involved with this. So I've been a podcast producer for about a year and a half (I've been recording music for about 12). I recently took on hosting my own show, under a different podcast client.
When mixing and editing my podcast, everything sounds fine. However, after I upload it and it goes out to all of my streaming services, there is a weird very slight digital distortion on my voices. I originally thought this was just a Spotify issue, but I'm noticing it on Stitcher and Google Podcasts too.
Someone brought up how broadcast audio with Spotify normalized to -14 LUFS. I went back, used a LUFS meter and even went way below it, this last time, to see if maybe my voices are clipping. The weird thing is that even when my intro song got loud, it never had that digital distortion. It's only with my recorded voices.
I'm starting to question my microphones I used or even my input device, but if those were causing some sort of distortion, I would have noticed it in my DAW. I've also thought maybe the laptop that I am recording the vocals on remotely is maybe recording at a different sample rate, so it's causing an issue, but again, wouldn't I have noticed that quality issue when dumping the files in my DAW to mix?
At this point, I'm at a total loss. I've considered it being just my phone, but I listen to podcasts regularly and no other shows I listen to sound like this. All I've managed to do is make my podcast quieter, at this point.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I would put my podcast name in the main text, but I don't want to get banned for promotion. I can DM anyone the original Google drive file that has the mp3 before it got uploaded, to show that the voices aren't distorted.
And most of them don't feel like villain songs at all, but it's the same style throughout the playlists on youtube. I don't know how to describe exactly but if you've seen one of these videos you know what type of songs I'm talking about. On Horns by Bryce Fox, for example, the best part is the pre-chorus and the "screaming" part kinda ruins the vibe. It's nice but it's not always all I want to hear, there's also sexy, crazy, playful, kinda gay etc. types of villains that I enjoy seeing.
Annoying to me at least because I personally prefer "pole dancing to seduce and kill the enemy on the backstage" than "I'm bad, I'm agressive, I'm evil and I'm going to screeeeaaaaaam about iiiiiiit and haveee a guitaaaaar on the backgrooounnnnd".
I'm trying to understand what clipping actually does to a signal and why it's undesirable compared to regular saturation. Clipping a signal is equivalent to introducing a PWM wave whose width depends on how hard you're clipping. The width of the PWM dictates the harmonics introduced since the Fourier transform of the clipped part of the wave tells you what harmonics are introduced. However any sort of saturation or distortion can be represented as a superimposed PWM wave with a time dependent width. Hard clipping is just a square PWM wave, but tape saturation would be more like a sine and tube saturation would be like a rectified sine so based on this why is clipping (square PWM) considered 'bad' saturation if it's fundamentally the same process? Is it because it can't be controlled or is there something that sounds worse about square waves?
I know this is a technical question and I'm going to have people telling me to just do what sounds good, but I'm trying to learn about the forensics of audio and the quantitative reasons for why clipping is considered 'bad distortion'
Hi all,
I'm curious if anyone experiences this. I just purchased this headset, and when listening to music, I often get a crackling/distortion sound on some bass ranges. It doesn't seem to be volume related. I hear it even on low volume. But some heavy base doesn't seem to be an issue at all.
Trying to decide if I need to send back, or warranty.
Thanks!
So whenever I'm on the bus the left cup will make my music have a ripple like distortion. I'm thinking its just the bus.
Non-music theorist here. I’m trying to help out a friend understand why certain songs give her actual anxiety. Like, listening to Pentatonix’s Here Comes Santa Claus two minutes and seven seconds in makes her sob and scream. Not even joking.
So basically certain sounds or music that’s distorted or has change in tempo or pitch gives her a physical reaction. She hates it and doesn’t know why it causes anxiety and tears. It’s only certain songs and the Pentatonix example is probably the most effective one.
Is there any actual answer or reasoning behind this? I know horror movies play off our brains ability to feel uneasy at this sort of stuff but i’ve never seen someone so genuinely horrified and traumatized at a tempo change from an a cappella group. Any insight?
Hi guys. My name is Kurt, I'm just turned 36 years old and live in the UK. I'm new to VCV, I produce hard, electronic, dance music and have done for little over 20 years. I come from a traditional DAW background and have a lot of experience using a bunch of DAW's over the years, including Logic, Cubase, Ableton/Bitwig and I've been using Studio One for the past few years with Ableton/rewired (when needed). Owned a bunch of synths over the years but I regrettably got rid of everything, apart from the Virus TI, Roland Alpha Juno 2 and just recently purchased the Behringer Neutron and Pro-1. Despite having a lot of experience with everything else, I always kept away from modular synthesis in the past because I didn't really understand it and I never had the time to learn it. I've been doing music full time since 2003, gigging as a DJ, Producer and Audio Engineer, amongst other stuff but you get the gist. Anyway, a couple of months ago I discovered VCV Rack when I was watching tutorials for Softube Modular. I did actually brush it off for a while because I thought it was probably a load of s**t compared to Softube because it was free. Boy, was I wrong! Don't get me wrong, I think the sound of Softube is probably a little but better but after I tried VCV, I've been on it non stop since September, trying to learn all these fun new toys that I've never played with or even heard of before! I'm trying to find some artists/tutorials who use VCV that like to make a load of "in your face", noise, basically or any weird glitchy type EDM stuff! I can find tons of vid's of people who are making generative, mellow listening, drone type stuff (which great, I watch all the time) but not much of the heavier, repetitive stuff. I've literally fell in love with the whole modular world, the concept of it and how creative it is. I didn't realise there was this whole other world going on with making music with synthesizers and computers that I didn't know so much or even hear of. I didn't realise modular synthesis was this deep! It really is awesome to discover something new that you just want to get stuck right into! I plan to start building my own Eurorack when I'm confident I know enough and where to spent my money. I've been using VCV as an external synth to record back into my DAW, building my own solo synth patches, making kick drums, etc and just porting them through. My plan is to start my tracks in VCV, basically a big chunk on loop and bounce stems through that I can
... keep reading on reddit ➡I know this is a weird request, but I've been looking for something like it for a while. I like normal music, but just plain noise is even better. Like a mixture of Everywhere at the End of Time, The Goslings, you know just plain noise to an extent. And if it has people talking in the background that is even better.
Edit: to clarify, this is for dissociation. Noise music helps me dissociate.
Hey All, I'm home for the summer, and my parents don't like when I play loud for long periods of time. So I can't really get a good tube distortion sound when the volume is low. Any Tips?
Also, I'm playing through a Peavey Classic 30.
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