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This happened recently on Taylor Swift's rerecording of 1989 - a persistent tone at 15KHz on multiple tracks [0]. The Taylor's Version records have to be some of the most carefully-produced albums around, given that the goal is to accurately reproduce existing recordings, so it's amazing that it made the final release.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/TaylorSwift/comments/17iv3r2/for_pe...



It's surprisingly common in older music. I assume it's because recording studios used to run SD CRTs and everybody working there had already lost their high-frequency hearing. A 15.68kHz (mid way between PAL and NTSC horizontal refresh frequencies to remove both of them) notch filter fixes the problem in most cases.




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