About recorded amp harshness and highs

[ZEN Amps]

Thanks for looking into this so deeply. I am quite surprised a null test shows you that the audio is the same.

Here are some screenshots of the waveforms. I routed the audio to a Fireface 800 and then into my UAD Apollo and from there to my DAW.

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First shot should confirm the waveforms were relatively in sync. But look at the difference in the close up of the waveform right at the start of the clip, where there was silence.

The above dual lines are the Youtube video, the below ones are from the video I uploaded on OneDrive.

I did a null test using just the Youtube audio and it cancelled itself out. The same, however, did not happen when I flipped the polarity on the OneDrive clip and played it back with the Youtube one.

The waveforms should be able to tell the story pretty clearly, I would think.

Thanks for taking this as I intended.

I'm not sure I understand though. You re-recorded the audio back in via analog conversion? If so that's probably low level noise introduced along the way. I'm not seeing any of that as I ripped the audio from the sources.

Either way man I wouldn't worry about it. Just keep doing your thing and don't sweat it that youtube is messing up your audio