Clicks can be faint or obscured by other sounds.
Plot points that she had hoped would be subtle "were completely obscured" by the sound of actors having sex.
Double parentheses indicate obscured or unintelligible sound, as in ((2 syll).), two audible but unidentifiable syllables.
Named for the band members' tendency to stare at their feet and guitar effects pedals onstage rather than interact with the audience, shoegazing acts like My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive created an overwhelmingly loud "wash of sound" that obscured vocals and melodies with long, droning riffs, distortion, and feedback.
White may be a walking American songbook, able to mimic Ralph Stanley and Burt Bacharach, but he comes up short as a producer, and the album sounds muddy and obscured, as if recorded in a room covered with wet felt.
Even though Mr. Williams's vocals on the new album sound clear, here they were obscured, just one part of the punk thicket created with his band, which now consists of the bassist Stephen Pope and the drummer Billy Hayes, who both quit the band of the Memphis garage-rocker Jay Reatard last year, not long before he died.
I argue that topos must be expanded to include the multiplicity of congregant voices and bodies, even when the sound of each voice is obscured or even intentionally hidden: as a result, congregational singing fundamentally transforms the commonly perceived correlation between echos and topos.
His production is set in a vast grey room, containing but a single wardrobe, and yet for all its apparent sturdiness, the room is soon overhung by a desperately creepy, nest-like assemblage of sticks, sucked into darkness, obscured by dim light and overpowered by a sound design that merges the unique soundtrack of Australian wilderness with ghostly singing and horror-worthy orchestrations.
They, and other witnesses, also allege that a far larger number of men were detained and transported from the battlefield and that, while their vision was obscured by blacked-out goggles, they overheard the unmistakable sounds of torture at the base.
Gestating celestial cubes and the obscured face of a woman weave in and out of technically-sound circular paintings.
