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Identify noise in Yesterday Once More

Discussion in 'A Song For You: The Carpenters Forum' started by Harry, Feb 16, 2012.

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  1. raz42289 Active Member

    I can hear it at 3:23, but I really don't hear anything at 3:24, though not really sure what I'm listening for. Harry, did you notice that if you do back to back comparisons of Yesterday Once More, after a while you didn't hear the "blip" at 3:23 anymore? I didn't! I guess it means I'm too tired to hear correctly at 1:43AM in the morning! :tongue:
    raz42289, Feb 22, 2012
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  2. Dave Active Member

    To me it sounded like "muffled studio chatter"... Almost as though someone "talked over that part of the track" and it just couldn't be completely edited out...

    ("How's this sounding so far?", might have been what's been said...?)

    -- Dave
    Dave, Feb 22, 2012
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  3. Harry Administrator

    I've heard it every time I listen to the track in that mix, and have for over ten years - and still do - every time. I've just not brought it up before because it's not really all THAT important - it's just a curiosity really. Frankly I'm surprised at the number who say they can't hear anything at all. Perhaps to them it's just a twangy guitar sound and nothing more, but I hear something else going on.

    The 3:23 mark is the bigger of the two. The 3:24 is almost like a faint echo - and I hesitate to use the word echo, because I know it isn't - of the first. The 3:23 mark is where I hear the "muffled studio chatter" as Dave puts it.

    Harry
    Harry, Feb 22, 2012
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  4. Chris May Moderator

    So, I went back in to the '91 instrumental mix, and I'm finally hearing what you're talking about Harry! I think I was so focused on the mix itself that I dulled any sensitivity to any other disturbance. Whereas I can't be quite as specific (i.e. studio chatter etc), my first thought was that I was hearing some upper harmonic distortion. I went into the SACD stems, and I don't hear it at all, so apparently wherever it was coming from, it had been fixed in later mixes.
    Chris May, Feb 22, 2012
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  5. Harry Administrator

    Well Hallelujah! Chris hears it!

    Agreed that it seems to be missing in the 5.1 mix, though I haven't properly hooked up a 5.1 system to completely conclude that - I don't hear it in the 3.0 downmix my system is currently providing.

    I'm still puzzled by the chronology of it:
    - not there on original album or single mix
    - appears slightly on the '85 remix
    - loudest on the '91 remix
    - gone(?) on the 5.1 mix

    Harry
    Harry, Feb 22, 2012
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  6. mstaft Member

    '91 instrumental mix? where is that? on the Karaoke album?
    mstaft, Feb 22, 2012
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  7. Harry Administrator

    Yes.
    Harry, Feb 22, 2012
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  8. Rudy Spinning The Wheels Of Steel

    OK, I only own this on the SACD and on Remastered Classics, which is why I probably didn't hear it.

    I'll go grab a '91 remix of the track and see what I can hear.

    Oh wait...is it audible on From The Top? I do that, albeit buried in storage right now. I can "borrow" the track though, so I am set.
    Rudy, Feb 23, 2012
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  9. Rudy Spinning The Wheels Of Steel

    Better yet, tell me which compilation you hear it the loudest on...I can go from there.
    Rudy, Feb 23, 2012
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  10. Harry Administrator

    Any of the 40/40's, any of the GOLDs. Those are the easiest to hear it on. Or the stereo layer of the SACD.

    Harry
    Harry, Feb 23, 2012
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