Friday, August 7, 2015

Because Vinyl is Final #1- Sibilance

by Ma Nerriza dela Cerna

Because Vinyl is Final is Erika Records' vinyl tips and advice column, where we will be providing you the customer with information on how to prepare your music for its final lacquer cut. 

One of the most common issues that comes up in the world of vinyl is sibilance: noise on vinyl that is characterized by a hard "s" sound or hissing whenever an "s" sound is made in a vocal recording, or in the use of a snare drum, etc. For example, a line in a song could be "So we settled the score with salt and sea."  But if that track has sibilance it will end up sounding like, "Ssso we ssssettle the ssscore with sssalt and sssea." 

Vinyl does not create sibilance in a record, but rather enhances the sibilance already present in a music master. So to prevent a costly re-cut talk to your mastering engineer about sibilance prior to submitting your music files. He or she can use a de-essing program to solve the issue before giving us your music for the cut...

Because once it's on vinyl, it's final.

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