For this assignment I choose to convolve the beginning portion of an acapella version of Alicia Key’s song “Girl on Fire”. The original snippet that I used from the song is shown below.
The first impulse response that my partner and I recorded was a balloon popping in the Tepper Quad. A balloon popping in that space sounded like this:
Meanwhile, Alicia Key’s sounds like this when put in that space:
The next space that my partner and I chose for our impulse response was the Baker Porter hallway. This space result in even more reverb as shown in the file below.
This is what Alicia sounded like in that space:
My next two “impulse” responses were actually sounds that I made for a sound design class I am currently in. The first sound was made by using the paulstretch effect in Audacity on a clip of water splashing around in my water bottle.
This created an extremely echo-y effect on the song snippet, way more than shown in the impulse responses:
My final sound, also taken from something I created for a sound design class, was modified from one of 5 sounds given to me. I don’t remember what the original sound was, but the one I made sounds almost like a squeaky chair (?). I definitely played around a lot with pitch shifting and delay to get this sound and it’s got a much more grating tone than the other sound.
This also produced a pretty echo like effect, but not as slow/calming as the sploosh sound. There is almost no echo on the end of Alicia’s phrases.