Re: That Pre-Echo Thing

I checked with one of my high-end-tweaky-audio-engineer friends and, as it turns out, there is an audio phenomenon called Pre-Echo.

First of all, it doesn’t have anything to do with the space-time continuum. It’s actually an artifact of the digitization of audio files. For your consideration:

Exhibit A

Exhibit B

So, Pre-Echo exists, but doesn’t have anything to do with temporal shifting or the distortion of reality (and cool stuff like that).

I still hold to my theory of Print-Through for the "Twilight Zone" mystery.

But pure Pre-Echo comes from bad coding. Who would have figured that it was implicated in the great Led Zeppelin "Whole Lotta Love" controversy that capped the last century?

Exhibit C

(OK... in that case, it was analog echo and not the evil kind we've explored here, but I thought it would be cool to give the link!)

Far out.

Posted by Jon at June 6, 2007 09:46 PM