I’m not talking about the mid-atlantic accent which has been asked about on this sub. I mean how the actual recordings of voices have a distinct sound quality where you can tell they’re…. old timey. Not the graininess, not background-noisiness, but the actual timbre/character of the voices has some sort of… idk, almost slightly electronicky sound to it. And modern artists use it as an artificial effect. But modern recording technology recreates voices much more true-to-life. What is this?
If this makes no sense feel free to roast me and remove my post >_>
edit: someone suggested to link an example. This was on my mind when watching this clip of the Jordannaires singing at the Grand Ol Opry in the 50s: [https://youtu.be/qkJU8BS-jDU?t=337](https://youtu.be/qkJU8BS-jDU?t=337) I listen to a fair amount of barbershop, and lots of the old recordings have this vocal quality to it, but modern recordings are much more accurate to the person’s real-life voice.
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ELI5: Less low tones, less high tones, more noise and glitches, unstable recording speed.
Old recording media had low bandwidth, so low and high ends of the audible spectrum couldn’t be recorded. The media also introduced much noise. Mechanical noise and noise specific to the media used, like uneven surface of a record, dirty, worn out film or magnetic tape. Noise present in all old electronics. Recording and playback require that the sound is recorded and replayed with the same speed. Old mechanical devices that provided the transport was not very precise. The oldest ones were manually operated with a crank.
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