Audio CD Background Noises

jellybeard999

jellybeard999

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I have noticed recently (since I have been listening to the original CD or FLAC rips, rather than MP3 - and have recently upgraded my hi-fi to something decent) that there are background noises in a surprising amount of songs, particularly in the intro and outro. Calls of "are you ready", coughing, counting down etc, and wonder, are they intentional ?

I realise albums such as Electric Ladyland etc were recorded, and there was very little that could be done to touch them up, and early Hendrix was probably recorded on the cheap, so coughing etc can be forgiven. But a lot of relatively recent (90s onward) where i assume there is much more play to remove these anomolies if desired.

I have noticed it on a large number of songs, but within the last hour or so i can particularly remember :

Daughter - Vs - Pearl Jam (Intro)
Roll With It - Whats The Story - Oasis (Outro - so obvious it must be intentional)
Purple Haze - Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix Experience (Intro)

Probably a boring point of discussion, but just curious :)
 
a skunk anasie track has someone going "y'allright?!" in the outro...don't remember which one though.

*n
 
Richard III by Supergrass has ducks quacking in the intro.

Oh, and a mobile phone going off in a Ben Folds Five track (Steven's last night in town?).
 
Was there not a programme on channel4 about this recently?

I remember them going on about some song which supposedly had the screams of a woman being murdered in the background or something like that :confused: They had a good few songs with other weird sounds too

Anyone see it?
 
It's intentional. Some bands think it's cool.

I can think of a couple - Train of Consequeces by Megadeth that has the drummer counting in; and Too Late: Frozen by Type O Negative where the bassist screws up and has to start again, and you can hear the other band members laughing at him in the background.

Not clever or funny really.
 
I think this can depend on a lot of things.

Your Pearl Jam example for instance; I'm pretty sure they like to have ambient noise such as that in the recording as it adds some live quality, Pearl Jam imo have never been an overly produced band anyway, it adds to their sound I think.

Also, sometimes they may record a performance that went really well, it had something special about it, so if something was picked up such as a cough etc then they decide to keep it in for the sake of the performance.
 
A lot of it on early stuff originally recorded on vinyl has something called 'pre echo' where you can hear the tune before it really starts. Sometimes it is print through on the tape, and other times it is just bad editing.
When I upgraded my hi fi I could hear the unintentional jangling of keys in David Byrne's pocket while he bounced around singing on an early Talking Heads album
 
Hole In The Sky by Blask Sabbath (Sabotage album) you can hear a count-in before the song starts, it isn't as apparent on the cd as it was on vinyl though..
 
Theres talking between almost every track on Smash by The Offspring because they recorded everything together at the same time due to the fact they had very little cash.
 
Queen's Innuendo has someone counting them in to the start of the song that's fairly inaudible.

I think it's kinda cool, it brings it back to the fact that these are musicians performing and it's not all a bunch of computers whizzing away producing the sounds.
 
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