26392__50dB-32dB

Sound created for Dare 2025-04 "Sound Design challenge #1 - Volume"
https://freesound.org/forum/dare-the-community/44951/

This pack contains several sounds that were inspired by this sound:
https://freesound.org/people/Sadiquecat/sounds/792018/
It brought to my attention that massive gain boosts could be used to bring out tiny background sounds or digital artifacts. Gain boosting a sound to the point of clipping also opens up additional creative possibilities, which I explore in this pack.
As sound sources I have selected a variety of test tones. I wanted sounds that were simple and fairly invariant, but also wanted to avoid the 'pure sine wave tone'.

Previous sounds on this pack demonstrate what happens when a sound is boosted to the point of significant digital clipping, inverted and mixed back with the original sound.
Taking that concept further, I took 2 versions of the sound that had been gain-boosted to clipping: one boosted to +50dB and the other to +32dB, inverted the +32dB version and mixed together. This results in a very brutal distortion of the waveform.

Like in the 3 previous examples, the 2 sounds being mixed already have very clipped wave-shapes, the resulting wave-shape has a platteu between the two 'ears'. But the effect is so extreme that the plateau is at (or close to) the zero-point and all that is left of each wave are the 'ears'. This kind of processing turns any initial waveform into pulses.
Very extreme distortion!

Source sound:
https://freesound.org/people/flashyrox/sounds/26392/