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While working on another audiobook, I decided to make this sound.
It's 38 voices, each saying different things, panned around and mixed together, creating a "wall of sound" that speaks like 38 radio channels at once.
Recorded with a Zoom H2 via USB into Ardour2. Mixed and exported to FLAC with Ardour2.
PS: It's all Polish (with some possible German shout-outs), but the amount of noise makes it almost completely incomprehensible. Only a few words that are being yelled in a different voice can be understood. No sound repeats here, no recycling - every voice and every second of this recording is unique. Yes, it required quite a lot of work to record so much talking in quality! It's almost an entire audiobook squeezed into 5 minutes.
Strangely (or not) listening to this makes my mind rest, because the noise blocks all other sounds from the environment - making my mind free of stimulation, allowing for sleep-like rest state.
The signal is so much modulated that it appears to be not modulated at all - like static you get from a FM radio of you tune it wrong. The brain receives less data when you listen to this, than when you sit in a room hearing even faint (but distinct) noises from outside, other rooms, other people or yourself.
This is sound masking in action. A very interesting psychoacoustic property of human hearing.
Also: this is an interesting material to study of my voice's spectral energy distribution while speaking (as opposed to singing). As you can see using the spectrogram view, most energy is present in the band below 600 Hz.
Type
Flac (.flac)
Duration
5:00.908
File size
62.1 MB
Sample rate
48000.0 Hz
Bit depth
24 bit
Channels
Stereo
7 years, 7 months ago
Love it.
Going to use it for a short film, thank you so much for uploading it!!
Here's the trailer for the project:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-kEX2ivRwg
7 years, 9 months ago
This is great. I'll definitely be able to use this for loud walla in a project for class!
7 years, 9 months ago
Great!
8 years ago
Nice One...Perfect... Hope it makes the final mix. Will credit it you and let you know the film. :)
8 years, 2 months ago
Perfect, hope to use it in Scene 5 in Episode 28 of Ad Astral – February 29th: due out at the end of February 2016. Credits will be in the shownotes.
Many, many thanks.
Dave Burnham
www.adastralpodcast.com