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Tabletop clock ticking at various speds, slowed down

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ycbcr

April 22nd, 2017

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Sound effects > Other mechanisms, engines, machines
Clock ticking at various speeds

A bog standard, small, plastic tabletop Prim clock, made in Czechoslovakia in the '70s or '80s maybe.
Recorded with Zoom H1 on 96 kHz, played back at various speeds, as follows:
- original
- half (48 kHz)
- quarter (24 kHz)
- eighth (12 kHz)
- tenth (9600 Hz)

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clock
clockwork
slow
slowed
tick
ticking
tick-tock

Type

Wave (.wav)

Duration

0:55.760

File size

20.4 MB

Sample rate

96000.0 Hz

Bit depth

16 bit

Channels

Stereo

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ycbcr

4 years, 6 months ago

The whole thing started out as an experiment to tell how precise the clock is. It failed, but I kept the recording, planning to do a slow-motion video with this speed ramping in mind. (Also feature test: 96 kHz fiddling, pack upload, etc.)

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