| Paul's correct, of course.
I was surprised the first time I cut some lacquers with sparse acoustic instrumentation / female vocal only. I was getting playback distortion on the vocal and couldn't figure out why. After talking to a bunch of experienced lacquer cutters, I eventually took their advice and simply brought the overall level down. Problem solved.
There's some pretty complex high frequency information going on there with exposed or a capella voice(s) that the lathe can cut, but that will distort upon playback. Bring the level down.
bob weston
chicago mastering service |