328184__4&5

Sound created for Dare 2025-04 "Sound Design challenge #1 - Volume"
https://freesound.org/forum/dare-the-community/44951/

This pack contains several sounds that were inspired by this sound:
https://freesound.org/people/Sadiquecat/sounds/792018/
It brought to my attention that massive gain boosts could be used to bring out tiny background sounds or digital artifacts. Gain boosting a sound to the point of clipping also opens up additional creative possibilities, which I explore in this pack.
As sound sources I have selected a variety of test tones. I wanted sounds that were simple and fairly invariant, but also wanted to avoid the 'pure sine wave tone'.

When looking for tone sounds to use, I found this one:
https://freesound.org/people/dotY21/sounds/328184/

Although it is described as a "Deep Beep Tone", it is not a deep beep at all. It is actually a high frequency 'buzz' with a lot of DC offset (meaning the sound wave is not centered at zero, as it should).
Note: Sounds with CD offset are generally bad for speakers and we should avoid playing them.

However, this sound offered very interesting possibilities for processing in this dare because of the DC-offset.
The DC offset meant that I could volume boost the sound to the point of only the top part of the waveform would clip. I did this in Audacity by firstly normalizing the sound (maximum volume withoug clipping) and then creating a version with +0.04dB boost and another with +0.05 dB boost.
Then I inverted one of these boosted sounds and mixed it with the other boosted sound, and raised the volume of the resulting sound to make the digital artifacts from this clipping process clearly audible.

This final resulting sound had some DC offset.
Although that is not strictly allowed by the rules of the dare, I removed the CD offset in Audacity as DC offset is inaudible but bad for speakers.