Was this archived?....probably, but I made an attempt just incase. forgive the shit quality.
thorsus.mp4
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@Ser Prize is right, its better to have multiple redundant archives than MISS something and have only heresay to back shit up. NOW we have evidence 100% for sure something was fucky, and its not going anywhere.
EDIT : added better version of video, higher res, slightly longer
For comparison, the spectrum for this clip looks a lot healthier/more natural:
I'm still going to look at the surrounding audio from the stream and compare later, but the difference is plain as day visually. Something really important I want to note is when he laughs around 10 seconds, you can hear an echo/delay effect which is most likely coming from early reflections on his reverb plugin.
For a quick overview: A reverb is basically a bunch of smeared copies/echos/reflections of a sound occurring at intervals that increase over time. Early reflections are those that reflect off nearby surfaces and arrive to your ear the earliest, well before the sound bounces off some far wall and comes back to you. Those farther reflections are called your late reflections. Since the late reflections travel farther in space, they occur at much wider intervals and are more susceptible to interference from other waves while traveling. The late reflections are what give most of the sustain you hear in a reverberant hall, while the earlier reflections provide better clarity in the high end and lead to a brighter sound. There is a lot that goes into why these earlier sounds are much clearer than the later ones—some acoustic, some psychological—but early reflections are key to setting up a reverb plugin that doesn't sound muddy as shit and significantly help preserve clarity. If you only have early reflections, it sounds closer to a typical delay plugin since it basically does the same thing at that stage. Same sort of idea as to why you don't hear long reverbs in a small room in your house/apartment.
As a fun experiment, go near a corner of your bathroom and clap. That metallic ringing you'll probably hear is the result of reflected copies of the sound interfering with each other, and it gets worse the closer these reflections occur relative to one another. We call this "combing", since the resulting frequency spectrum resembles a hair comb.
Anyway, my point is it looks like he throws a reverb on there to give the low-end of his voice more body before he uses his big gay notch filter. I always suspected this, but couldn't say for sure until now.
I'm guessing his FX chain is something like [Poorly Configured Noise Gate, if present at all] -> [Reverb] -> [Big Gay Notch Filter] -> [Maybe A Light Saturator].
Edit: here are two clips you can compare. One has the early reflections (mostly) removed by me using some post-processing tricks. Pay close attention to the spaces between his laughs.
Original:
No reflections:
