Dial-up modem sound slowed 700% is 100% creepy

Re:Dial-up modem sound slowed 700% is 100% creepy by babuskov on Monday June 25, 2012 @05:23AM (#4155755)

Any sound slowed 700% is creepy. It's just the human brain associating high-pitch sounds with fun, children speaking,, bell ringing and other "nice" sounds, while low-pitch is of thunder, big animals (predators) roaring, otherwise associated with danger.

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Re:Dial-up modem sound slowed 700% is 100% creepy by Sharlin on Monday June 25, 2012 @05:42AM (#4155787)

No, this is stretched 700% without affecting the pitch: http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/

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Re:Dial-up modem sound slowed 700% is 100% creepy by babuskov on Monday June 25, 2012 @05:51AM (#4155807)

I listened to it again, you're right. Sounds like a horror movie theme, maybe that's what gives the creeps. Although I have to agree with many others in this thread: it isn't that creepy, I heard much better ones.

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Re:Dial-up modem sound slowed 700% is 100% creepy by raverbashing on Monday June 25, 2012 @06:08AM (#4155846)

". It's just the human brain associating high-pitch sounds with fun, children speaking,, bell ringing and other "nice" sounds"

Not really, children wailing, nails on a blackboard and other high sounds are very bothersome

Yes, some high sounds are friendly, but not all

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Re:Dial-up modem sound slowed 700% is 100% creepy by TeMPOraL on Monday June 25, 2012 @08:18AM (#4156122)

> while low-pitch is of thunder, big animals (predators) roaring, otherwise associated with danger

Except most of the creepy parts here are high-pitch, not low-pitch sounds?

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Re:Dial-up modem sound slowed 700% is 100% creepy by EdiX on Monday June 25, 2012 @05:44AM (#4155790)

The article claims the pitch is unaltered (ie. they slowed down the sound and pitch corrected the result).

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