Wolfgang Voigt's GAS Project: the Poll

Spotify confirmed, the beep has been removed there, at least on my streams

Supposedly the dings have been stealth removed from all official online sources. Sucks for those who have the CD/LP, perhaps they'll be worth something when they get replaced with the 'fixed' versions

uh...lol, I'm listening on macbook pro speakers/spotify again and the beeps are still there in full force. I didn't hear them earlier because i was listening via my...*david lynch rolls in his living grave* iphone 6 speakers!

but it's still there. i promise i'm not crazy

amazing. i listened to the whole album last night, via my iphone 6 to my ear, and it was so lovely. i really liked it a lot, without that frequency, and i put it in my "new listen pile" playlist. now i'm back on the laptop, and it sucks again! lol

this is a rare music audio case of it being a good idea to play this thing on the shittiest sound system you have, with the worst/absent high frequencies

i'm not hearing the bleep on spotify anymore, but there is a lot of digital crackle? maybe that was there before though, but i was too busy listeting to the beep to notice?

we need to get like a 1000 people into a room with the same sound equipment and do a focus group on this. or like 100. even 20 ok

actually it sounds like a really bad vinyl rip now

but we need to get 20 people in a room and play it out 5 different sets of speakers, 5 different platforms (spotify, CD, LP), 25 tests in all, and figure out what the heck is going on because this is crazy

i need to figure out if there's a way to listen to this that doesn't like shit, other than through the speakers of my iphone6 SE while playing spotify

god, when i was a child, i remember when i only had 2 or 3 big problems. i could count them on my hand, and i would think about what i would do about them. and all the problems were so inconsequential. and now look at my life

really it sounds awful now to me. listening via decent headphones on a laptop via spotify and it sounds like garbage

the tone is gone on spotify afaict, but i think the crackle was always there, i assumed it was intentional. a lot of gas stuff has chaotic treble messin with your reverie

cool kids these days take their album and record it onto VHS tapes before throwing it up on bandcamp or pressing vinyl masters

lol none is this makes me want to actually listen to the album, esp since there's no preview option on Bandcamp

they should add a preview of only the beep

Again, I hear no beep on the CD but that might be me.

What a palaver this is.

Heard the tones clear as day last week on Spotify (SoundMagic e11 earbuds plugged into MacBook)
That evening I couldn't pick them out on the stereo (Marantz MCR610 into Q-Acoustics 2020s), same source
Today it's Sennheiser HD558s, Focusrite Scarlett 2i2, USB from work laptop - definitely gone from Spotify, but clear in that YouTube clip upthread (which hasn't been updated since Dec 3)

i'm sure whenever anyone asks wolfgang voigt about it he just grimly stares at his mixer until the person goes away

The streaming version now also lacks the horrible track breaks

I sent an email to Kompakt’s Bandcamp, and this is the official word re: downloads:

1) Are the files 16 or 24 bit?

It will be 16 Bit

2) Are these the files with or without the high-frequency ping on every other kick?

files come without the high-frequency ping - the record unfortunately still contains the "problem".

3) Are the individual tracks faded out or blending seamlessly into each other?

You will receive the fade out version and the continuous file.

best regards kompakt

So that’s it: files have been depinged, but individual tracks are still fading, which I guess makes them good for shuffle. If you want a continuous experience, you always have the single mixed file, which, I guess, makes sense.

Forgot to ask if those few tracks off Rausch will/have also been depinged.

the "problem"

hahaa

do you think anyone has dared ask voigt out loud if he did that on purpose or not?

honestly, unless i were mastering or something (this is a fantasy world, ok), i don't think i would have the guts to ask