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The Most Annoying Sound Ever...

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The Most Annoying Sound Ever…

Peter Grenader of Plan B just posted a link to Savart’s Wheel on the Analog Heaven list. I clicked the link, and read that it “is widely acclaimed for the fact that it makes the most obtrusive, obnoxious and irritating sound imaginable.”

I was, like, “whatever. I made industrial music for 15 years.” Then I played the MP3. That claim is no joke. This little device is nasty. Not the sort of thing you want to hear when you have a toothache. Thanks, Peter.

10 comments

  1. FromSynthToReal

    I guess I need to retire my electric mandolin.

  2. googoobaby

    I guess I need to retire my electric mandolin.

  3. InvisibleMensch

    Worse than an electric rake solo?

  4. Sargon

    I like it - where can I buy a sampleset for Halion? ;-)

    Michael

  5. solipstnation

    Aw, that isn't so bad. It sounds kind of like somebody's playing an irritated chicken.

    I once made a DX21 patch that could be played to actually sound like a dental drill inside your head, complete with extra nasty friction noise from the mod wheel. I could clear rooms with that one...

  6. Mark Beeson

    I call bullshit. Someone just sampled Yoko Ono singing and tweaked it a bit for that mp3.

  7. Solipsist Nation

    Aw, that isn't so bad. It sounds kind of like somebody's playing an irritated chicken.

    I once made a DX21 patch that could be played to actually sound like a dental drill inside your head, complete with extra nasty friction noise from the mod wheel. I could clear rooms with that one...

  8. dm

    I like it! its like a cross between Ben Franklin's Galss Armonica and an electric chicken (whatever an electric chicken is...)

    http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/images/glass_big.jpg

  9. Angstrom

    Bart Hopkin's book (musical instrument design) is really excellent and I recommend it to all musically inclined people. I got it as a break from electronics and it was an eye / ear opener.
    http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1884365086/qid=1141672394/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_0_1/203-9637859-7559158

    also I'll point out this link here, which is in a related vein :
    http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/music/

  10. Mark

    I call bullshit. Someone just sampled Yoko Ono singing and tweaked it a bit for that mp3.

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