Quote Originally Posted by botley View Post
LOL... I listened very carefully to all the tail ends of the songs on Opiate again, and where before there used to be a bit of 'whine' just where the digital converter's ringing would poke through above the noise floor, now on the 2019 version instead you can hear tape bleed-through from the adjecent few seconds (this sometimes happens if magnetic tapes are stored for a very long time on tightly-wound reels where the loud, more heavily magnetized parts of the tape can 'smudge' the quieter parts on either side). For example, as the cymbals are dying away after "Part of Me" you can hear Maynard's voice very faintly repeating the final phrase. Right at the end of "Sweat" you can hear the first bass note of "Hush" super-quietly, before it actually kicks in. Remastering from analogue is fun!
What about the "pre-echo" in The Pot? the very quiet vocals "who are you to..." It's not tape effect on record made in 2006, is it?