Sibilance is easily avoided in the studio using good mics & mic technique, sensible EQ and (where necessary) a suitable de-esser.
And I'd be a bit more circumspect Jack - there are some people on this forum with a lot of professional audio experience. As for digital cables affecting frequency response - absolute nonsense. It's simply not possible, because the cable would have to change the bits which they demonstrably DO NOT DO. Cables can affect jitter which is a different problem. I'd love to know what the "studio test" is...I'll try it in my studio - anyone like to comment? In fact I did a test last year on this using my TACT gear to do an in room plot using various cables (digital - coax (various) vs toslink (various) and analogue. I found that there was absolutely no change in the plot using different digital cables (TACT to DAC), but there were very small differences (tiny fractions of a dB here and there) using different cables between DAC and pre-amp. I gave up in the end. Sibilance is a particular type of "distortion" (to be more accurate, it's an over-emphasis of certain sounds) on vocals and has nothing to do with mix levels per se - you can have really low-level sibilance. It's quite rare to come across an album with noticeable sibilance these days. Of course, it is possible to introduce "a sound like sibilance" into the replay chain by boosting certain frequencies. Early (84-86) low-end CDP's were notorious for this especially anything made by Sharp (ugh). I'll take the bait and ask one final time - please give an example of a track (any track) that sounds excessively bright / "sibilant" By the way what instrument do you play? - I'm guessing it's bass guitar... -- Phil Leigh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24613 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
