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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Marcov on June 07, 2011, 04:47:29 am

Title: It's all fuzz and noise...
Post by: Marcov on June 07, 2011, 04:47:29 am
...and it's a tad scary too, isn't it?

So this is what results if you import a .m4a file in Audacity.

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Title: Re: It's all fuzz and noise...
Post by: jr2 on June 07, 2011, 04:55:57 am
Hmm.. should put that in a mission where they are resurrecting ETAK and trying to figure Shivan transmissions out... fade in and out of regular ETAK sounds and this and other random noises.  :lol:
Title: Re: It's all fuzz and noise...
Post by: Marcov on June 07, 2011, 04:59:30 am
And it probably fits in Transcend too. :lol:

Oh my...put the speed down in Sound Recorder, please... :shaking:
Title: Re: It's all fuzz and noise...
Post by: Klaustrophobia on June 07, 2011, 05:14:09 am
was that an entire song compressed into less than a second?
Title: Re: It's all fuzz and noise...
Post by: Marcov on June 07, 2011, 05:34:06 am
Yes, it's a song nearly 5 minutes long.
Title: Re: It's all fuzz and noise...
Post by: Mustang19 on June 07, 2011, 07:25:07 am
Marcov. Go to bed.
Title: Re: It's all fuzz and noise...
Post by: Commander Zane on June 07, 2011, 07:45:53 am
If you listen to the .wavs of the Vishnan voices on FRED it sounds even worse.
Open the mission file for Ken and go through the list of .wavs played in that mission.
Title: Re: It's all fuzz and noise...
Post by: Marcov on June 08, 2011, 03:14:05 am
Quote from: Mustang19 on June 07, 2011, 07:25:07 am
Marcov. Go to bed.

Uhh...what's this supposed to mean? :wtf:

Quote from: Commander Zane on June 07, 2011, 07:45:53 am
If you listen to the .wavs of the Vishnan voices on FRED it sounds even worse.
Open the mission file for Ken and go through the list of .wavs played in that mission.

Which sound file is that? Anyway, personally I still think that kind of noise is among the scariest things I've ever heard. It's completely, utterly alien.
Title: Re: It's all fuzz and noise...
Post by: Marcov on June 08, 2011, 03:15:18 am
~Double Post: Deleted Message~
Title: Re: It's all fuzz and noise...
Post by: sigtau on June 08, 2011, 11:36:04 am
It probably tried to interpret the raw bytes of the file as pulse code modulation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse_Code_Modulation), and since the bytes don't have any coherence to them, what you hear is just garbage data the PCM interpreter in Audacity spat out.
Title: Re: It's all fuzz and noise...
Post by: Retsof on June 08, 2011, 01:32:15 pm
Could you post one that's not less than a second long? or is that the point?
Title: Re: It's all fuzz and noise...
Post by: Herra Tohtori on June 08, 2011, 01:56:10 pm
Well, true fun and games start when you change the speed to -99% or -98% (depending how fast you want it to go, of course).




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Title: Re: It's all fuzz and noise...
Post by: Retsof on June 08, 2011, 05:10:57 pm
Woah... Freaky.  I can see this in a Metroid Prime level.
EDIT: You should try some other random files and see what happens.  Maybe different files will give you different sounds.
Title: Re: It's all fuzz and noise...
Post by: Marcov on June 08, 2011, 11:00:20 pm
Quote from: Retsof on June 08, 2011, 05:10:57 pm
EDIT: You should try some other random files and see what happens.  Maybe different files will give you different sounds.

Well, I tried it with a longer file before (I think it was initially 8-9 minutes long), the bzzzing was longer at about 10 seconds, but the noise is pretty much the same.

Quote from: Herra Tohtori on June 08, 2011, 01:56:10 pm
*posts "eerie harmonics"*

What's that, a Blue Whale going on tantrums?  :lol:
Title: Re: It's all fuzz and noise...
Post by: Snail on June 09, 2011, 03:43:16 pm
Sounds like something from Ken.