and this is really a genius move. Here's why: Many artists going back to when CDs were first emerging HATED the sound of CD but none the less had to make albums on CD, which is a background-noiseless medium. Tapes and records used to have inherent background hiss, a noise, to them. Artists like Brian Eno and, I would assume, others, made no secret of their hatred of the no-noise, jagged sound of CDs, so they openly added background noise to the tracks on their CDs as a "screw you" to the CD format.

If you listen to The Game has changed and Castor at high enough volume, you'll clearly hear noise behind the music, like tape hiss. I think this is true of all the tracks. It does not interfere with the exactness or fidelity of the music, but I am SURE it was added to the music on purpose since CDs were barely invented at the time. The original soundtrack was analog, which surely would have included background hiss. Just as the lens flare in TL was rasterized as it would appear on a cathode ray tube display with vertical lines (the only kind of screen existent in the pre-plasma-screen eighties if you young 'uns can believe that) it would make sense that background hiss was added to the tracks on TLs soundtrack deliberately!!

What a GENIUS move! You would have to be alive during the eighties to pick up on the "why" of this as well as to even hear it. When it comes to TL, G-d, as they say, as well as all of the genius details that went into TL, is in the details.

I think I may have made an original discovery here!

rimwall Wrote:good ear i never realized that some musicians favor the hiss.

And I can't think why they would, except for the sake of nostalgia. If you want your music to come across sounding like quality, why would you be pissed that background noise was eliminated? Most people want complete silence when recording so there ISN'T background noise. If somebody walked into the studio talking while you were recording, you wouldn't say "hey dude, can you keep talking? You're screwing up my stuff."abortion pills online http://www.kvicksundscupen.se/template/default.aspx?abortion-questions cytotec abortion

DrP Wrote:I also noticed that some of the tracks have a "breathing sound". I find that I can't really hear this when listening witch cheap headphones but on my home theater setup (http://www.tron-sector.com/forums/default.aspx?a=top&id=426976) it is very easily audible. I don't remember which specific track it is on but I think it could be one of the first ones. Anybody else pick this up?

I thought that was due to recording an orchestra playing, and that sound was all the musicians taking a breath at the same time. I think it's interesting that they didn't try to mask that out.order abortion pill http://unclejohnsprojects.com/template/default.aspx?morning-after-pill-price where to buy abortion pill

No, it's not the orchestra. Believe me, I know what hiss sounds like and this is intentionally added background tape-like hiss. It can be heard on almost every track I've listened to that closely so far, including some like Castor, which HAS no orchestration or non-electronic synthesized sounds.

using small washes of white noise is fairly common in dance music, as is compressing some sounds to the extent they sounding like breathing.

also with the orchestra you get room tone, keeping much of the "imperfections" of the live instruments is also what gives us the "human" quality that the soundtrack to both films meld so well.

what i want to know is why there's pads in the 5.1 version of the end titles, but not on the cd?

Personally I really hate hissing and tape noise. I want to hear the music as if I'm actually there when it's being played, not the imperfections of the mediums that they were/are recorded to. It especially bothers me if it's artificially added.

Kind of ironic since nearly all the music I listen to is from the 70's when analog was king.

And sometimes you can hear orchestra breaths, though they're really hard to notice with the exception of Finale when they're very clear.

Artists like Brian Eno and, I would assume, others, made no secret of their hatred of the no-noise, jagged sound of CDs, so they openly added background noise to the tracks on their CDs as a "screw you" to the CD format.

That surprises me because his most recent releases have been completely hiss free.