I have noticed a sound in a few recordings, and I haven't been able to Google a straight answer. So, maybe I can pick your brain for a minute.

Listen to, in order of recency:

  1. Uninvited - Red Sun Rising
  2. Pity and Fear - Death Cab for Cutie
  3. 1stp Klosr - Linkin Park

Also, please understand that my taste in music is not representative of my value as a human.

If you can listen with at least 44.1/16, you'll definitely hear it; it's even worse at 96/24 for all three songs. Lossy compression somewhat reduces the annoying effect.

Anyways, like the title says, there seem to be some recording artifacts in the very high frequency range, i.e. maybe 12k+. I haven't seen a spectrogram of them yet because I've got a degree in procrastination.

Any ideas what in the actual hell is causing that? Like, maybe some ground noise leaked into the signal during the recording process? Or some kind of faulty equipment in the processing chain? Like I said above, googling for anything relevant to the topic results in a needle/haystack type researching session, and I couldn't find the needle.

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