"Daring Dalliances" BGM has a weird 1600Hz tone throughout

[Nekkowe]

Hello!

Sorry in advance if this is something you won't be able to un-hear later.

This is something that's been bothering me about one of the ingame songs.
"Daring Dalliances" is a background track that plays during quest cutscenes, especially during many seasonal events.

This song (and no other songs) has a *constant* high-pitched tone playing in the background.

Some of the people I've talked to about this have mentioned getting headaches from some holiday cutscenes, and think that this might be the culprit. The first time I was listening to it, I myself thought I was dealing with oncoming tinnitus again or something.

I've tried recording a video to show the difference of when the tone is playing, here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TNa_SrSnR8

(Heads up, it might be easier to notice with headphones in.)

This is an issue with the song itself, and it's audible even in uploads of the song elsewhere, so it's not an issue with my computer or installation. You can open up the game right now and hear it for yourself there.

My question is, have you noticed this in the past?
Do you notice it now that you've been made aware?
Does this warrant submitting as a bug report in the Bugs subsection of the forums?


EDIT: Ah dang, the video embed didn't work, how do you do that on here? I've definitely seen posts that had the actual video player embedded in them... some Letters from the Producer summaries on these forums have embedded videos, but I can't reply to them, so I can't look at the bbcode for them, either.

[mallleable]

Weird! I thought it could be a result of some weird compression thing going on when playing from an orchestrion in-game, but it also shows up in some direct rips as well. SE, please fix.

It could be some weird reverb artifacts in the recording.

[Nekkowe]

Weird! I thought it could be a result of some weird compression thing going on when playing from an orchestrion in-game, but it also shows up in some direct rips as well. SE, please fix.

It could be some weird reverb artifacts in the recording.

Yeah! Whether it plays in the orchestrion or a cutscene, it consistently has this issue and it's the only song to have it (that I know of).
It really is just part of the song itself. I do hope it gets addressed, since all it takes to fix it is the existing song and an EQ - they wouldn't have to dig up some old DAW project files or anything.