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This ever happen to you?

First let me say, there were no drugs involved in this one.

I was listening to my tuner (old marantz solid state 20/20) on acoustat model 3s. i dont know what song was playing but it was in the alternative trance genre w/ lyrics. my right ear felt like it was connected to the speaker by a tube directly into my eardrum. it sounded exactly like i had one side of a pair of etymotics in my ear. the sound was totally divorced from the speaker and seemed to be coming out of a little tiny speaker situated right in my eardrum. the detail was perfect and the tone of the music seemed almost unreal and lush but with a slight humming (or vibrating) and absolutely personal. even when i moved my head a little it still felt like the sound was right in my right ear. this wasn't happening with my left ear. were there some sort of odd harmonics at work? was this an intentional mixing trick?

WTH?
kublakhan
nlglassdbe4
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It could very well be some phasing trick buy the engineers.
Try switching the interconnects so that the sounds would be coming from the left channel....if it's there in the left also, then it's on the recording. Don't laugh folks, I remember hearing Jimi Hendrixs' "Electric Lady Land" the first time on a top setup and was simply blown away by having his guitar come from the back of my skull and swirl around. Un*&@ing believable! Phase tricks like the one Kubla describes are actually not that uncommon in recordings these days. Just listen to Madonna's "Ray of Light" album.....
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dekay
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Kubla: Whatever you do, don't touch the cabling. The ear "thing" is a much safer route.
kublakhan OP
718 posts
 
i think n1glass might have hit it. i just talked to an acoustat super-freak who mentioned something about Q-sound. anyone ever heard of it? apparently it involves phase shifting in the mixing. roger waters did this on 'amused to death' ive been told. i'm going to pick up a copy and check. unfortunately i have no idea what song i was listening to when this happened and i dont know the time to call the station. but i may not be crazy after all. i'll let you know.
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grumpybb
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Yep, the Roger Waters disc has Q sound and so do Madonna's Immacuale Collection and Paula Abduls - Spellbound discs. I also have alot of elctronic/techno music that has lots of out of phase information in the recordings.
kublakhan OP
718 posts
 
grumpy, can you recommend some techno that's out of phase?

thanks
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