Linn sounds even better here than on the record because I can hear her beautiful voice more clearly (Jenny, too). Unfortunately, the record has some kind of crap processing (reverb or whatever) that obviously is not needed at all. If they haven't already, they need to remaster the Happy Nation/The Sign album with this processing entirely absent. I want Linn's and Jenny's voices to be clean and raw. What were the producers and engineers thinking?
Nerdy answer, FWIW: It's not completely raw here, still a bit of reverb/delay - just more subtle. Agree they overdid it in the studio but I think that might have been more to do with how the overall track was produced, as opposed to just the vocals. It's something a trained singer can manipulate to some extent, but naturally Linn's voice is incredibly pure and dark (talking in terms of the timbre, not the pitch), with comparatively few harmonic overtones. It's one of the things that makes it so unique, but it might not have cut through such a bass-heavy mix that well. The flanger/chorus effect creates some higher overtones that give it a bit more bite. Unfortunately it also gives it a shimmer that makes it sound a bit weird but they probably considered it an artistic choice.
@@tmb8807 Nerdy, but highly accurate. ;) Now let me get nerdy, too. A few years ago, I was playing around with building speakers with the tweeter crossed over higher than I usually do, and discovered after filtering that Linn's voice was often completely inaudible in the tweeter! This confirmed what I thought I was hearing, although I was surprised at how extreme it was. Usually female voices--even not particularly high ones--have a lot more harmonic content than this and feature prominently in the output of tweeters, but Linn's voice--even though it's not super-low--does not. Unfortunately, I've forgotten what the cutoff crossover frequency was, but it's not extreme--in a lot of perfectly normal speakers, the tweeter will play virtually none of Linn's voice. :) Of course, this depends on the slope of the filters, and I was using kind of steep ones, but in any case, you're absolutely right. I don't think I've ever heard another woman's voice that is so basic and "pure" in this way. I suppose some might expect this to mean that it's plain, but no, it has always grabbed my attention, and been perceived as unique and particularly pleasing. I'm glad that someone else noticed, and you might well be right about the processing, albeit then again sound engineers tend to make a lot of odd, often harmful choices, in my opinion (the loudness war, band-filtering everything, Auto-Tune in any form).
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I am really impressed by Linn's performance. I had no idea that she would sound as good live as on records
super Linn, she 's Ace Of Base, it would be soo good if she'd come back, she's great, what a good song!
with the current situation of music, world...and since this is "live"..i feel like crying...
most excellent! perfect amount of cowbell
Linn is AMAZING
wanderfull!
Linn reviens !!
Jonas dances like such a dork behind that keyboard... LOL.
Linn sounds even better here than on the record because I can hear her beautiful voice more clearly (Jenny, too). Unfortunately, the record has some kind of crap processing (reverb or whatever) that obviously is not needed at all. If they haven't already, they need to remaster the Happy Nation/The Sign album with this processing entirely absent. I want Linn's and Jenny's voices to be clean and raw. What were the producers and engineers thinking?
Nerdy answer, FWIW:
It's not completely raw here, still a bit of reverb/delay - just more subtle. Agree they overdid it in the studio but I think that might have been more to do with how the overall track was produced, as opposed to just the vocals.
It's something a trained singer can manipulate to some extent, but naturally Linn's voice is incredibly pure and dark (talking in terms of the timbre, not the pitch), with comparatively few harmonic overtones. It's one of the things that makes it so unique, but it might not have cut through such a bass-heavy mix that well. The flanger/chorus effect creates some higher overtones that give it a bit more bite. Unfortunately it also gives it a shimmer that makes it sound a bit weird but they probably considered it an artistic choice.
@@tmb8807 Nerdy, but highly accurate. ;) Now let me get nerdy, too. A few years ago, I was playing around with building speakers with the tweeter crossed over higher than I usually do, and discovered after filtering that Linn's voice was often completely inaudible in the tweeter! This confirmed what I thought I was hearing, although I was surprised at how extreme it was. Usually female voices--even not particularly high ones--have a lot more harmonic content than this and feature prominently in the output of tweeters, but Linn's voice--even though it's not super-low--does not. Unfortunately, I've forgotten what the cutoff crossover frequency was, but it's not extreme--in a lot of perfectly normal speakers, the tweeter will play virtually none of Linn's voice. :)
Of course, this depends on the slope of the filters, and I was using kind of steep ones, but in any case, you're absolutely right. I don't think I've ever heard another woman's voice that is so basic and "pure" in this way. I suppose some might expect this to mean that it's plain, but no, it has always grabbed my attention, and been perceived as unique and particularly pleasing. I'm glad that someone else noticed, and you might well be right about the processing, albeit then again sound engineers tend to make a lot of odd, often harmful choices, in my opinion (the loudness war, band-filtering everything, Auto-Tune in any form).
OMG Jenny looks SO gorgeous... No Wonder why i always wanted to be like her 😁❤️