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shortwave squeal.wav

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parabolix

May 18th, 2009

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Sound effects > Experimental
when bad things happen to good radios

tuning a radio through a resonance: it's that typical squeal in am radios.

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radio
rf
shortwave
tuning

Type

Wave (.wav)

Duration

0:10.345

File size

891.1 KB

Sample rate

44100.0 Hz

Bit depth

16 bit

Channels

Mono

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bugbichabug

1 year, 9 months ago

Using this for an elementary school's podcast project! This will be great!

SilverIllusi...

2 years, 5 months ago

Nice work, thanks for producing and uploading it! With the ambience cut out it could sound like an adorable creature moving to and fro.

Bryce835

5 years, 6 months ago

Good sound. This sound can also can be herd around 7000 khz if your listening to an AM brodcast or ham radio.

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Codeine

15 years, 1 month ago

Great! Need to make a montage of a radio being tuned, this'll be perfect for it, thanks!

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