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Colorino Battery out in AM Radio.wav

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kb7clx

May 12th, 2016

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Sound effects > Objects / House appliances
EMI Colorino Talking Color Identifier and Light Probe

Electro-magnetic interference from the Colorino Talking Color Identifier and Light Probe when held near the internal Ferrite antenna on the back right of a 13-year-old boombox near the bottom of the AM broadcast band. You first hear the device inactive being brought near the radio with a bit of computer EMI in the background. This gives a low buzz of stacato clicks. At about 00:08 I remove one of the tripple-A batteries and the pulse-train quickens, rising in pitch briefly, then diesels out to a few clicks and you hear a thump. At 00:10 the battery is reconnected and you hear the white noise that means the device is in standby, which usually happens if you've just used it or inserted the batteries.

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am
am-radio
assistive-technology
blind
click
color-blind
color-detector
electric
electronic
EMF
EMI
glitch
light-probe
lo-fi
noise
pulses
radio
radio-interference
rf
static
tick

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Wave (.wav)

Duration

0:16.010

File size

2.7 MB

Sample rate

44100.0 Hz

Bit depth

16 bit

Channels

Stereo

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K
kb7clx

9 years, 8 months ago

Thanks for the good comments, glad it'll be useful. :)

AlienXXX

9 years, 8 months ago

Another really nice sound. Thanks

M
mostlyhorse

9 years, 8 months ago

Good stuff - first part is a great intro to a home video. I will add acknowledgement - as always. Thanks very much

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