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I'm going to start this with a primer. I am asking this question in the Recording Techniques forum because I am operating under the assumption that, as my experiences have shown me, recording engineers tend to listen to things more carefully than do normal people.

Anyway, I was listening to the newest Green Day album, American Idiot, and noticed a click. I doubt that it is due to a scratch on the disc, but I am wondering if anyone else can corroborate my suspicion.

The click occurs on track 2, during "Tales of Another Broken Home" (approx. 8:28). The line in the lyrics is "I don't feel any shame/ I won't apologize." When Billie Joe pronounces the soft "G" in "apologize", there is an anomaly.

It sounds to me like a digital clip, but I can't imagine an album costing a national record label as much to make as American Idiot surely did would be released with such an error. My guess is that maybe an early reflection in their reverb set-up just happened to cause a sort of slapping-clipping sound, but that is simply conjecture.

So...can anyone confirm that this is actually in the recording and not a manufacturing error or a scratch on my disc, and if so, what could this little tick be?

Thanks,

~Brent
 
I don't have the disc, but mistakes do slip by the majors. Ever look up the errors present on massive-budget films? Some of the stuff is pretty absurd.
 
Digital pop confirmed! It's definately there... a bad edit.

Good ear, Brent.

Makes me feel good to know that even there is at least one mistake on a million dollar record :D
 
Thanks, DiscoKing!

More than just wanting to know I wasn't hearing things, I also wanted to know my disc wasn't damaged. If you heard it too, I find it unlikely that we both scratched our discs at the same spot.

Audiophiles Unite!

~Brent
 
I'm not too surprised...there is also digital distortion on the first song on the Radiohead album Hail to the Thief. It's on a long reverb tail from a Yorke vocal, and clearly distorts. Why people let that slip by is beyond me.
 
Update (like anyone cares): I listened to the song on vinyl today. There is no click on the record.

I am beginning to think something went wrong in the master-stamping process for the CDs, and that it didn't occur in the stamping of the master for the records.

Can anyone else confirm the pop on the CD?

~Brent
 
That click is the best single moment of their career.

Don't hit me, I couldn't resist. But seriously, I'm throwing up the over analysis flag. It's good that some notice that stuff, but does it really have any bearing on anything at all? My vinyl copy of Highway to Hell isn't exactly perfect, but the rock contained therein is.
 
Check out Californication by the Red Hot Chili Peppers sometime (or anything else mastered by Vlad Meller). You'll hear tons and tons of digital clipping. For me it's totally unlistenable, but the major labels like it. It makes the albums seem louder.
 
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