The bonus tracks are not inverted just the album tracks
The bonus tracks are not inverted just the album tracks
The beginning of 'Drown With Me' has some kind of a vibrato effect or something on the guitar and I think that's making it harder to tell what's going on.
Here's the very beginning of 'Chloroform' also:
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Looks like I’m wrong. I had a quick look and thought it looked the bonous track I looked at was correct. Not at home now so can’t confirm.
I'm delighted that I could help spread the information, especially for folks that care enough to be lurking in this part of the forum.
Interestingly, I seem to be the first guy who can't hear a difference. It must be something with my setup, perhaps it's Linux, perhaps my playback software, or perhaps the bass management settings in my receiver.
Either way, I had the album as 24-48 FLACs on my hard disk. I always rip to 24-48 because I can't hear any difference to 24-96 and I want to save hard disk space and avoid playback problems that Linux has with higher-resolution files. Anyway, I inverted the center in those files in Audacity, then re-exported at 24-48.
When A-B'ing, I can't hear any difference between before and after, no matter how hard I try. It sounded about okay (but a bit thin on the bass side) before, and it still sounds about okay now.
I'm definitely keeping the new files around, because I have every reason to believe the difference is there, judging from all your comments!
It's funny this showed up now. When I got this disc back in 2005 I had just started to build up my first home cinema system with surround sound. This disc has always freaked me out because it felt like the phase was wrong with the center channel. I even changed polarity on the center speaker on purpose whenever listening to the album and it sounded spot on.
I even changed polarity on the center speaker on purpose whenever listening to the album and it sounded spot on.
Interestingly, I seem to be the first guy who can't hear a difference. It must be something with my setup, perhaps it's Linux, perhaps my playback software, or perhaps the bass management settings in my receiver.
Either way, I had the album as 24-48 FLACs on my hard disk. I always rip to 24-48 because I can't hear any difference to 24-96 and I want to save hard disk space and avoid playback problems that Linux has with higher-resolution files. Anyway, I inverted the center in those files in Audacity, then re-exported at 24-48.
When A-B'ing, I can't hear any difference between before and after, no matter how hard I try. It sounded about okay (but a bit thin on the bass side) before, and it still sounds about okay now.
I'm definitely keeping the new files around, because I have every reason to believe the difference is there, judging from all your comments!
Which Opeth album is that?I recall hearing the difference clearly on the Opeth album with the same problem.
Which Opeth album is that?
Interestingly, I seem to be the first guy who can't hear a difference. It must be something with my setup, perhaps it's Linux, perhaps my playback software, or perhaps the bass management settings in my receiver.
Either way, I had the album as 24-48 FLACs on my hard disk. I always rip to 24-48 because I can't hear any difference to 24-96 and I want to save hard disk space and avoid playback problems that Linux has with higher-resolution files. Anyway, I inverted the center in those files in Audacity, then re-exported at 24-48.
When A-B'ing, I can't hear any difference between before and after, no matter how hard I try. It sounded about okay (but a bit thin on the bass side) before, and it still sounds about okay now.
I'm definitely keeping the new files around, because I have every reason to believe the difference is there, judging from all your comments!
Do you run your center speaker full range or with a crossover? If you run it full range, you might not be able to hear much difference because the bass has a harder time canceling acoustically in the room. But, if you use a crossover, and the bass is summed in your pre-amp/receiver, then cancellation will definitely occur. I recall hearing the difference clearly on the Opeth album with the same problem.
I haven't tried inverting the center on In Absentia yet, so I can't comment on the difference I hear.
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