Since arriving at CMU, I’ve gotten exposed to recording and editing audio in Pro Tools, but I have never really tried to make a sound anything but album-ready. This being the case, I wanted to explore what kind of negative effects something like a simple delay (often used in small doses to make vocal tracks or other instrumental tracks sound like there is a “glitch” in the processing system or some other cool effect) could have on a vocal track. So, I recorded myself saying one phrase, then repeatedly added the smallest possible delay to the audio, duplicated it, and continued the process until it became very hard to pick out what I was saying. Frankly, I stopped at the point where I couldn’t stand how screechy the audio became.

What resulted is a clip that both annoys you with my voice and makes your ears want to bleed so enjoy, or just invest in some ear plugs, up to you!

I’ll also add that as the trials went on and on, the signal started clipping to an INSANE degree. I had to use a limiter on every clip from about the fourth repetition on. So if you think this is bad, imagine what it would’ve sounded like naturally.