the following tracks (all from frank cd) from winehouse’s frank and back to black four cd deluxe set have scratching sounds. I also noticed the same sounds on amazon’s sample version of frank deluxe and regular frank, explicit and clean versions.
Intro/stronger than me (you can hear it especially in the beginning)
know you now (you can hear it throughout the song)
take the box (original demo) (you can hear it in the beginning)
I am thinking "Frank" was not produced correctly like Back to Black was. Initially I thought I bought a defective cd but it seems that maybe that is how the music was produced. Any opinions or confirmations?
Sometimes an analog to digital conversion can leave that "hiss"/ scratch noise. *if it was recorded on a tape reel, and then transfered to computer*
However, a modern production technique is to deliberately add those static clicks in to give it a low-fi vintage vinyl feeling instead of the squeaky clean digital. (Example, Eminem’s The Way I Am).
I cant verify the Winehouse recordings though. Sorry.