Assignment 1: Stretching with Paul

Audacity is a good program! Among many other things, it provides fun effects like Paulstretch! I’m not quite sure who Paul is, but his stretching algorithm sure does a good job of making things sound sloooowwwwmooooooooooooooooo

Or, you can set the “Stretch Factor” to 1 and forego the stretching of the clip, instead simply making it sound more… Paul-y. So that’s what I did. With a “Stretch Factor” of 1 and a “Time Resolution” of .25 seconds, I fed the same clip into the Paulstretch effect 30 times until it was a) pretty quiet and b) quite eerie. If I had to guess, I’d say Paul is a cute, timid ghost – Like Casper, but an audio engineer. Thanks Paul!