Extraneous high-frequency background noise during the playing of a tape recording.
放音时磁带的嘶嘶声
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The sound still has a bit of tape hiss (either that, or it's very bright acoustic), but that shouldn't stop you.
If there is a weakness, it is that some tape hiss does come through during quiet stretches of the soundtrack.
I didn't have any problem deciphering any of the dialogue, but there's a significant tape hiss droning along in the background, and the score sounds as though it was recorded in the bottom of an empty cookie jar.
The incessant sound of tape hiss is present throughout the feature and dialogue (in German with very shaky English subtitles) is often difficult to hear.
Once hidden by analog tape hiss, the noise of vintage devices may be excessive by digital's standards, leading older gear to fall off of the ledge of acceptability.
Also missing is any kind of audio quality cleanup software to help reduce or eliminate snaps, crackles and pops from LP recordings, and a utility to reduce tape hiss that dogs almost all cassette recordings.
Sound quality, apart from the usual tape hiss is excellent.
To gain some clarity on muffled vocals, try boosting between 5 and 8 kHz, but not too much, because the EQ will also accentuate any tape hiss.
It should also be noted that the track is also free of most background distortions like pops and tape hiss.
Background distortions are minimal, with very few traces of tape hiss or sound pops.
‘Those kids are gone’ is acoustic folk pop piped through a severely overloaded microphone and choked by tape hiss.
No tape hiss is present, but that's a problem that is virtually non-existent in the digital recording world.
Older features sometimes have a problem with tape hiss and other problems plaguing analog recordings, but I am happy to report that it is completely audible.
Free of annoying background noise like tape hiss and popping, dialogue is easy to understand and the film's forgettable score remains clearly so.
Some light hiss does remain - tape hiss will never completely disappear from many analog recordings - but it is never a bother.
Some (myself included) found the manic abandon of their songwriting mixed with nominal tape hiss charming.
They create digital recordings, which lack the tape hiss that used to plague cassette recordings.
Distortion is held to a minimum with little in the way of tape hiss or popping to annoy.
There are no major defects located within the soundtrack, but there is some evidence of the lifelong side effect of analog recording: tape hiss.
The transfer to CD is quite fine, if a little constricted sonically, judged by present-day standards, with a bit of tape hiss on the archival material.