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Old 24th Aug 2017, 11:23 pm   #94
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Default Re: Radio 4 198 sibilance

Clipping, although the effects can be quite complex.

You can get similar effects with low bitrate digital encoding, where the sibilant peaks can't be encoded properly.

None of us really knows what causes the R4 sibilance when it happens.
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