It’s been a while since I posted a “sound-of-the-day”. Here’s a new one, based on a printer in the office where I used to work.
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It’s basically just the same printer sound layered on itself seven times, each time with a different pitch and bandpass filter setting. There’s also a bit of volume oscillation between the layers to make the shifting pitches more dynamic–and some reverb.
[...] of his popular feature Sound-a-Day, where he puts a new spin on ordinary sounds. As he explains, one audio clip based on a printer is “the same printer sound layered on itself seven times, each time with a different pitch [...]