were people’s voices different way back when, or is the recording making it sound that way?

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were people’s voices different way back when, or is the recording making it sound that way?

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Answer 1

it depends when you mean. Early recordings could barely pick up low frequencies, if you listen to old jazz they don’t have drums and a banjo player generally keeps time because the drums couldn’t be recorded properly, even earlier recordings can be hand cranked and have terrible trouble with consistent speed which messes with the frequency.