Cough on The Moor

[Maggot9]

probably been answered before, but where is the cough mikael is talking about on The Moor?

 

[Godhead's Lament]

I hear it's at the very beginning. It can only be heard on the original release, though. It was removed for the reissue.

 

[Hertog]

Funny, I bought the cd on the day it came out. Never noticed this, though I must have listened to it for a million times now.

 

[Hertog]

well, after listening to it, it turns ou to be very minimal. Check out Ulver's Kveldssanger, you can hear them breathing in and out up to the detail.

 

[Goober]

its funny, even to this day i have yet to hear it, im sure its cuz i dont have the original

 

[CAIRATH]

Umm, are you sure it was removed from the reissue? To my knowledge none of the Opeth albums have ever been remastered when they were reissued. In other words, they should all sound exactly the same no matter which release you have of any given album.

But maybe I've missed something.

 

[bass_lover1]

If the reissue was in fact remasterd (which I doubt) they probably would of taken out all of the dropouts that Mike mentions in the FAQ.

IMO thats more annoying than a cough.

 

[Tubbs]

Coughs annoy the hell out of me. I'm a sort of germiphobe (NOT GERMANPHOBE), so when I hear it on The Moor I tend to spray the headphones with lysol (but not so much to ruin them).

 

[all_sins_undone]

Haha ... a cough.

 

[Rahan]

^

 

[Mr. Bland]

I hear it's at the very beginning. It can only be heard on the original release, though. It was removed for the reissue.

Where in the very beginning, i dont hear it. Probably because i dont have the original.

 

[KeithRT99]

how do i know if my copy is a new one or reissue? i have a digipack version i bought a few years ago

 

[Godhead's Lament]

I'm sure it was removed from the reissue, because I have the reissue, and I listened to the beginning of The Moor on full volume 5 times, and there is no cough.

how do i know if my copy is a new one or reissue? i have a digipack version i bought a few years ago

Check the discography section of the site. They have pictures of what originals and reissue CDs look like.

But I'll save you the time:

Original:

Reissue:

 

[CAIRATH]

Just to be clear, this cough is very obscure. It's not like someone just coughs out loud in the middle of the song or something. I do have the original version and I have never heard or noticed it either. Unless your version also has the stereo dropouts fixed (which if they had reissued the album they surely would have done) then you really do not have any kind of remaster.

I don't know what the exact time for the cough is. If you search for "the moor cough" you find a bunch of threads about it but most people don't even seem to agree on where it is exactly. Some say 10:09 or but that sounds more like an intentional whisper.

 

[Moonstruck]

I've heard it even on an mp3, I don't recall anymore where it was, around 3-5 minutes on the left speaker or something? The one around 10 minutes is definatly Mikael, probably whispering 'Melinda...'.

 

[Liquid Diamonds]

Never mind a cough, has anyone heard the belch on 'Sideshow Symphonies' by Arcturus?

 

[Braighs]

sounds more like a sigh, or breath than a cough to me, if I am hearing correctly. Why do we care?