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Posted by Paul Serotsky Quite apart from speed inaccuracies in both recording and replay, the acoustical recording process itself had a very inconsistent and lumpy frequency response. It is this that is responsible for most of the strange sounds you hear (the performers must take the blame for the rest). Sometimes, by listening carefully, you can detect the "lumps" - some, but by no means all, restoration engineers make use of sophisticated equalisation techniques to smooth out these lumps. To distinguish a "rapid quaver" in a singer's voice (vibrato) from a similar effect in the recording or playback process (flutter), listen to the accompaniment, homing in on instruments that generally do not use vibrato (e.g. piano or clarinet?). If the effect is pervasive, blame the record/playback chain, otherwise - regardless of the sound of any of the singer's other recordings - it must be vocal vibrato.
on November 22, 2006, 12:17 pm, in reply to "Re: http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2006/Nov06/Wagner_Preiser89940.htm"
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