What is it with this Virus sound?

[-X-]

Originally Posted by Khazul

Sounds like listening fatigue. Often caused by digital reproduction of sound into a less than perfect audio chain and particularly with some monitors and headphones with metal tweeters/drive units with ave more of a tendency to resonate badly than the softer sounding silk or similar tweeters.

Distortion and/or aliasing in high frequencies certainly contributes to this by adding a whole load of extra atonal frequencies.

Whereas I have heard of the effect, I never really believed in it until I listened to the Virus. I doubt that it is the effect of the headphones/speakers only since I am using them for years and years and never experienced the fatigue before.

I try to stay away from higher pitched Virus sounds, that's it.

[Khazul]

Originally Posted by -X-

Whereas I have heard of the effect, I never really believed in it until I listened to the Virus. I doubt that it is the effect of the headphones/speakers only since I am using them for years and years and never experienced the fatigue before.

I try to stay away from higher pitched Virus sounds, that's it.

Just a thought - do you tend to use alot of High EQ to try and brigten up the Virus alot?

If so - then yeh, I can understand how that can get a bit painful... Instead add some noise or even a little FM with noise, or use second filter to at a high freq and a little reso to get some high end gentle fiz.

[sacredgeometry]

I might just be me but I have done all the tests that people list in multiple forums and I just don't hear aliasing, maybe its just alot more subtle than all the other VAs i have used, or maybe my hearing is shot.