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aaaaaaaaa my suffering is finally over
if you’re a Mac user and you suddenly find you’re getting horrible crunchy noise that’s shaped by, but usually quieter than, the music you’re listening to… go into the “Audio MIDI Setup” and change output sample depth from 16-bit to 24-bit
@hikari holy crap, either you have great ears or that's several layers of bad
@flippac oh I assure you I don’t have great ears, the reason it’s audible is that with in-ear earphones, your max output volume is like 10% at most, often 5% or less, so relatively “quiet” noise becomes quite noticeable
@hikari If all the mixing's digital that... still shouldn't be much of a thing? You're losing maybe the top 3-4 bits off the dynamic range and if it's propagating control signal all the way down then mixing up again the effect of dithering should be below what a 16-bit DAC + analogue mixer circuit would consider its noise floor...
@flippac well, I’m assuming the problem comes from the absence of dithering
@flippac if there was dithering then there’s no doubt in my mind it’d sound fine
@hikari Could be that, could be the equivalent of running through more than one amp stage: that would also show up as noise and it'd be a bit louder too
@flippac fwiw the character of the noise was very quantisation-noise-y, nothing like tape hiss