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38333__gain_to_32dB_back_to_-8dB

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AlienXXX

March 11th, 2025

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Instrument samples > Synths / Electronic
Dare2025-04 - Clipping

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'.

This is another example of boosting a sound to clipping.
Created 3 versions from the original source sound by boosting to +16dB, +32dB and +45dB (about the maximum I could boost this sound to in Audacity). Sounds were saved then re-loaded and gain reduced to -8dB so the files created would not be too loud when played.

Source sound:
https://freesound.org/people/Schalkalwis/sounds/38333/

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clipping
Dare2025-04
digital-clipping
square-wave
test-tone
tone

Type

Wave (.wav)

Duration

0:04.957

File size

427.1 KB

Sample rate

44100.0 Hz

Bit depth

16 bit

Channels

Mono

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