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What am I hearing

On a very select few of my recordings in my collection I hear this "Mind Trickory"as I would call it..If I could describe what I'm hearing is a "SUPER" holographic image.It's like they took certain instruments from the recording and recorded them out of phase.These "Super Images"as I would also call them are very pleasing to the ears..It really plays tricks with my ears.Some of the recordings that do this are-Roger Waters"amused to death"(perticularly the dog barking in the first track and the old man being interviewed)- Grover Whasington jr."winelight"(certain parts)-Blood Sweat & Tears.(certain parts)-Willie & loobo"fantago nights"-Norman Brown"After the storm"..etc.At certain parts of these CD's it almost sounds like you have headphones on.Whould anybody else know what other CD's give you this sound.

Thanks
spaz
patrick_odonnell
35 posts
 
I remember that Roger Waters CD sounding excellent, but on the whole QSound is a bit gimmicky for my tastes and occasionally sounds flat-out wrong to my ears (see Madonna's "Immaculate Collection").

On earlier (pre-90's) Roger Waters tracks you're probably hearing holophonic imaging, which is a variation on binaural recording.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holophonics
electroid
283 posts
 
It is very easy in todays world of digital plug ins to make this happen. if you take a signal X, all in the R ch only and then put the reverse phase of X all in the L ch it makes the image go way far right outside the speakers. It is a psychoacoustic affect that tricks the brain. I love it too. The best recordings I have heard that do this are:

Nina Hagen "African Reggae" on a few of her albums-get the full version, not the edit on the US version
Adrian Sherwood "Boogaloo" from Never Trust a Hippy
Massive Attack "Karmacoma-Mad Professor remix" from No Protection or the singles box

ET
imin2u
392 posts
 
Hall and Oates mfsl gold disc "Your Kiss Is On My List"
Amazing
herman
2,216 posts
 
There is a track on Ginger Baker's "Going Back Home" (I think #3) where Bill Frisell's guitar sounds likes it's coming from way off to the right and way in front of the speakers. I have a door in to the room near there and it sounds like he is outside the door.

Excellent album by the way.
muncybob
50 posts
 
Electroid....is what you are descriding the same as Polk's SDA effect from year ago?
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