Faye Wong's Eyes On Me, sibilance hell

[whazzup]

I've always been bothered by the song's crazy high sibilance, but it only just occurred to me that I can take a look at the spectrogram to see what is wrong with the track. And wow.... the SSsss are lighting up like a christmas tree.... and here noob me was thinking it might have been some specific frequencies.... what were they thinking....

 

[YouDontHaveEnoughBass]

Another example of why it’s good to have bass and treble knobs

 

[Redacted]

Other music is available!

 

[whazzup]

Other music is available!

It's a nostalgic song for some gamers

 

[Palladium]

Oh, so it wasn't just my imagination then. I have the original FLAC and its also extremely sibilant to my ears.

 

[Keith_W]

So many of you listen to Cantopop! Are you all Cantonese? I thought I was the only one here. I don't listen to Faye Wong though ...

As for what they were thinking ... maybe they all have high frequency hearing loss. It's an occupational hazard for mastering engineers.

 

[Fongus]

All eyez on me

 

[whazzup]

So many of you listen to Cantopop! Are you all Cantonese? I thought I was the only one here. I don't listen to Faye Wong though ...

As for what they were thinking ... maybe they all have high frequency hearing loss. It's an occupational hazard for mastering engineers.

No haha.... The song was part of the Japanese game Final Fantasy VIII, so it reached more than asians
Yes, it's really grating on the ears..... This is the type that truly needs a remaster to fix the crazy treble.... sigh...

 

[MAB]

It's sizzling. Like pan-fried oysters. Fries on Me.

I wonder if the recording is on purpose, or if they inadvertently overcooked the Esses. Lots of my favorite songs from games have very odd production, not always pleasant, but for sure sticks in my head.

 

[Curvature]

So many of you listen to Cantopop! Are you all Cantonese? I thought I was the only one here. I don't listen to Faye Wong though ...

As for what they were thinking ... maybe they all have high frequency hearing loss. It's an occupational hazard for mastering engineers.

I'd bet more on heavily dampened mastering rooms with "well-regarded" speakers that have off-axis problems.

Hearing loss actually looks like the below (curves changing depending on the level of loss), so would be an unlikely culprit when mixing at normal levels: