[mercurydime]

good day, all

i have taken in a some files to master of bagpipes, brass, and drums that were recorded live at a local university. these files have an interesting occurrence of what seems to be a digital anomaly:

in the lowest dynamic passages, notably at tail-out, but also at points where a phrase or passage begins, there are low-level garbled, dropout-like glitches that occur. they are evident in the wave forms. this is obviously a result of either the recording or bouncing/processing aspects in mixdown; but i've never encountered anything quite like it...even in the loads of restoration work i've done.

any ideas from this sage group as to what might cause this?

i just may have to get the engineer to revisit these files since i'd like not to have to de-noise these if at all possible.

any insight is appreciated, and i thank you in advance!

as ever,