Genuinely curious about this one because I keep seeing it come up in EVP communities. Is it actually that cassette tape captures something digital misses, or is it more that the noise floor on old tape gives pareidolia more to latch onto? Like our brains are filling in gaps in the hiss and interpreting it as voices?
I've messed around with both and honestly I find the cassette results more compelling to listen to, but I cant tell if thats meaningful or just psychology at work.
Has anyone done a proper side-by-side, same location same session, one cassette one digital recorder running simultaneously? That would actually tell us something. Because right now it feels like the cassette preference might just be confirmation bias from years of people associating that tape hiss sound with "authentic" EVP recordings.
Not dismissing the phenomenon, just want to understand what's actually going on. What do others think?