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Wailing Souls

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Porphyr

May 28th, 2013

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Soundscapes > Synthetic / Artificial

This audio sounds like wailing or howling souls. I would describe it as confusing, disharmonic, strange, mysterious, eerie, unsettling and dark.
Video/film seems to be the most obvious area of application—or further processing.
It was made by processing the noise of my microphone. Processing steps include
time stretching, filtering, EQing, applying reverb and others.

For information on how to attribute please have a look at my profile page.

I would like to know and hear/see the results of what you've done with my sounds. So send me a link within a message or put it in a comment, if you like. Thank You!

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abstract
confuse
confusing
dark
disharmonic
disharmonious
disturbing
enigmatic
howl
howling
mysterious
soundscape
strange
unsettling
wail
wailing

Type

Wave (.wav)

Duration

5:00.040

File size

82.4 MB

Sample rate

48000.0 Hz

Bit depth

24 bit

Channels

Stereo

Comments
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SilverIllusi...

11 months, 2 weeks ago

Very nice! This sounds like insanity itself.

G
grewar

1 year, 9 months ago

Thank you so much for making the time and effort to do this. This is going into a school film of the story of Medusa and her sisters-perfect!

J
JunkieMoon

4 years ago

I get goose bumps

S
sklawlor

4 years, 7 months ago

Hello. I thought I had left a comment years ago when I used this sound but I see that I neglected to do so and I apologize for that. I used this sound on the following album.
https://scottlawlor.bandcamp.com/album/plagues
I believe I am going to also use this sound in my Halloween livestream this friday night at http://youtube.com/c/scottlawlor/
The performance will begin at approximately 10:30 PM central standard time so I hope you can tune into check it out.

R
Rage007x

5 years, 4 months ago

Excellent work this is a very well created audio. I'm sure I can find a way to use this for a horror short story I'm working on for my YouTube channel. Thank you.

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