Phil Leigh Wrote: > 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...
Jitter can and does give an impression of altered frequency response, i.e emphasized or deemphasized parts of the frequency spectrum. -- P Floding ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Floding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2932 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
