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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: juslight on October 06, 2004, 12:39:54 PM
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It\'s getting close to Halloween and I\'m trying to get myself psyched up with some paranormal stuff.
What is the most convincing video or photo of a ghost or paranormal event that you have seen?
Here is one that have people guessing:
http://www.kfor.com/Global/story.asp?s=869959
Thanks.
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She was probably out getting a soda and then came back to her car missing. That would suck.
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She sent one of her employees out to investigate
lol, that was nice of her.
Never seen a ghost but i always think i hear noises etc then get my self worked up or more a case of other people contributing to it. I was out camping with some freinds a few years a go and we went for a walk in the dark and we were all just trying to scare each other, then we were sure we heard a dog bark and twigs cracking around us - bearing in mind this is pitch black at night, we all crap it and run like hell back to the tent where some camp wardens run up from around the tent and scare the crap out of us again 5 minutes alter, lol, fun times. :)
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I never once claimed to see or hear ghosts up until I was hired at my current employer.
There are doors constantly opening and shutting on their own in that place. I left one night only to forget somthing. I go back, and the lights are on. LIC and I walked out in the dark. So I am positive they were off. I have heard screaming, laughter, and whistling. You will from time to time catch a whiff of perfume. Hear people walking upstairs without a person there. They will at times mimic your footsteps in as they play catch-up with a few seconds delay after you quit walking. Bright blinding lights that flash for a few seconds then go away. My sister swore she saw a red headed lady in there one night. Most of these things happen between 10 pm - 2 am.
History on the building. It was built around 1900 not sure of the exact date. Where it was a hotel for many years. The building use to be three stories, but is now two. No one knows the reason why. There was even a write up in the paper asking what happened to the third floor asking for any info. I was made aware of this after I went around asking about the place. Last year we had someone come in, and do some renovation. They discovered bones under the floorboard. The contractor did not have a license so it was hushed up, and put back under the floorboards. If I was not a sys-admin, and have to work nights. I would never step foot in there after 10.
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Originally posted by Capcom
Last year we had someone come in, and do some renovation. They discovered bones under the floorboard. The contractor did not have a license so it was hushed up, and put back under the floorboards. If I was not a sys-admin, and have to work nights. I would never step foot in there after 10.
bones...what sort of bones? Human?:confused:
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By no means am I a religious person - so I don\'t believe in Ghosts, but I can attest to what Capcom says..
This is the truth.
We was there one night, extremely late running cable for the network. We locked up, turned the lights off and was leaving. We left out of the back - we made sure EVERY LIGHT was out (because we complained about having to walk out in the dark). When we got in our car, drove around to the front, all the lights was on . This is no joke. It freaked the **** out of me.
Another weird thing about that place, it has two basements. One of which you lift up part of the floor (which is carpeted). When you go down there, there is an ...outhouse and a bunch of other old things. God\'s honest truth.
If I remember correctly, and if not, Capcom can tell the story - but they recently had two construction workers quit there due to odd behavior happening to them in the upper attic - which is a spot I refuse to go in
One more thing - I remember one evening we was working late and started hearing people running upstairs. I don\'t mean like lighty, it was the obvious sound of someone ...RUNNING above us. Which, was in the upper attic. I can pass that one off as to some kind of animal in the attic , but to this day, I cannot explain how we turned every light off, then drove by to have every single light back on.
I have put in a lot of hours there with Capcom and there has been very few nights where something didn\'t happen. You either hear laughing, screaming, running or lights turn on and off. I\'ve never seen anything as far as an actual "ghost", but I\'ve seen strange things happen in that building and even tho\' I\'m not religious, you still won\'t get me in that place at night by myself.
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By the fact they put them back in the floor. What do you think?
Originally posted by Paul2
bones...what sort of bones? Human?:confused:
The story about the contractors quitting is they were doing renovation on the ballroom. One of them went downstairs for somthing. The one that was left upstairs heard someone walk up the stairs, and then across the floor. He called out to his buddy that was not there. They also had a strong scent of perfume, and one of them feeling as if someone was breathing down their neck. Needless to say they did not last.
I have never had such bad feelings about a place in my life. When I was a kid use to go ghost hunting quite regular. Nothing ever seen or experienced. There are times I leave there and could swear someone is sitting with me in my car part of the way home. Hair standing up on the back of my neck.
I have literally ran out of that place at night leaving everything behind if it gets too bad. Yes it can get that. Hear somthing screaming in an empty building will do that to you.
When I was first hired in. The network was in shambles. AKA running a server without a firewall. The first night I heard someone whistle a tune from one end of the building to the other. Never heard the tune before, and could not whistle it now if I had to. Needless to say my first week was hell.
There are times I will beg LIC to ride along because it does get that freaky. It is not as bad with two people for some reason. Though you still hear the doors and walking.
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wow,
and how can you guys leave it like that if you saw bones?
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I\'ve heard things in my house that I can\'t explain. There used to be a bunch of knocking going on, like I\'d be in the rest room and I\'d hear light taps on the door. One time I was sitting in my room and I clearly heard a noise in the hallway as if someone were walking up and down it knocking the wall on the way. It went on for a while and I figured it was my brother being obnoxious...I went to tell him to knock it off but when I looked out my room there wasn\'t anybody there. The knocking happened quite frequently and it eventually got to the point where I wasn\'t bothered by it unless I was alone, then I\'d just get in my car and go somewhere.
I\'ve had the lights come on after I clearly remember turn them off. My bro and I were home alone one night and we both set off to bed turning off everything then heading to our rooms. I came back out to the living room and 3 lights had been turned back on. I know it wasn\'t my bro because I had seen him close his door which happens to make some noise, I would have heard it if he opened it and walked out to the living room.
The absolute most terrifying was when I was staying at home alone. I was laying in my bed and it was really quite then I heard the bar stools in the kitchen swivel. Not just one of them but all four of them so I was a little freaked out...moments later I heard what sounded like footsteps coming from the kitchen, through the living area down the hallway. It really sounded like someone was in the house. I have never jumped out of bed so fast, I immediately turned on all the lights in my room then I rushed out into the rest of the house and turned on more lights. I just left everything in the house on and went to bed.
I\'ve never actually seen a ghost but I don\'t know how else to explain the events above.
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It would be bad publicity for the company. I can see the headlines now. Dead body found in local store.
Originally posted by Paul2
wow,
and how can you guys leave it like that if you saw bones?
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The only experience I have ever had like this, was the one I posted in this thread (http://www.psx2central.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=25262).
I was told some time after that the building did have a history of unusual events happening.
One girl later told me she had an experience when she was working alone on a project in the very top class room, which was situated in the renovated attic area. She said she was just finishing up some designs one afternoon after the others had left, and she heard the sound of 2 pairs of footsteps walking up the stairs outside, she anticipated someone coming in, so looked round the corner to see who it was, no one came in, she went over to the door, no one was there. The only 2 rooms on the top floor, were the classroom she was in, and the toilet next door, she looked in the toilet, no one was there, so she dropped everything she was doing, and left the building.
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Originally posted by Living-In-Clip
By no means am I a religious person - so I don\'t believe in Ghosts, but I can attest to what Capcom says..
This is the truth.
We was there one night, extremely late running cable for the network. We locked up, turned the lights off and was leaving. We left out of the back - we made sure EVERY LIGHT was out (because we complained about having to walk out in the dark). When we got in our car, drove around to the front, all the lights was on . This is no joke. It freaked the **** out of me.
Another weird thing about that place, it has two basements. One of which you lift up part of the floor (which is carpeted). When you go down there, there is an ...outhouse and a bunch of other old things. God\'s honest truth.
If I remember correctly, and if not, Capcom can tell the story - but they recently had two construction workers quit there due to odd behavior happening to them in the upper attic - which is a spot I refuse to go in
One more thing - I remember one evening we was working late and started hearing people running upstairs. I don\'t mean like lighty, it was the obvious sound of someone ...RUNNING above us. Which, was in the upper attic. I can pass that one off as to some kind of animal in the attic , but to this day, I cannot explain how we turned every light off, then drove by to have every single light back on.
I have put in a lot of hours there with Capcom and there has been very few nights where something didn\'t happen. You either hear laughing, screaming, running or lights turn on and off. I\'ve never seen anything as far as an actual "ghost", but I\'ve seen strange things happen in that building and even tho\' I\'m not religious, you still won\'t get me in that place at night by myself.
You all still work in this place everyday? Was this just a job or is this where your office is located? Got any pictures?
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Last night I watched "Ghost Hunters" on the SciFi channel. They observed a house where a woman was living with her daughter. The mother called the crew in because she had a few experiences with child-like ghosts. She walked in on her daughter fighting over a doll with someone who wasn\'t there. She saw her daughter leaning back pulling on the doll. Her daughter let go, and the doll levitated for a few seconds and then dropped.
The TAPS crew took audio recordings while asking questions to the "spirits." On the tape you can hear a child whispering "They don\'t want us here" as if the spirits knew why the crew was there.
It reminded me of the movie "The Others"
Creepy.
Here\'s the TAPS website:
http://www.the-atlantic-paranormal-society.com/
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damn, it\'s 1am here... and after reading some of your stories, I\'m scared as hell LOL
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I work there everyday. The only pics that would be of interest is the basement that has an outhouse in it.
May scan the newspaper article that asks about what happened to the 3rd floor.
It would probably be more interesting to record the sounds that go on in there.
Originally posted by GigaShadow
You all still work in this place everyday? Was this just a job or is this where your office is located? Got any pictures?
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Originally posted by Living-In-Clip
By no means am I a religious person - so I don\'t believe in Ghosts
ghosts = religious?
News to me.
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Originally posted by Black Samurai
ghosts = religious?
News to me.
Good point. Maybe he was thinking of the Holy Ghost. ;)
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My strange experiences are mentioned in the old thread Cerberus has posted.I dont know why but when I walk through the corridor that leads to my room and when I am in my room I feel some strange and negative force.Its annoying.It feels like a cold..depressing...negative energy.Its almost suffocating.
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Typicvally religious people associate ghosts with the after life. That\'s all I meant.
To answer Giga\'s question, I don\'t work there. Capcom is the SysAdmin there and I simply help out from time to time.
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Originally posted by Living-In-Clip
To answer Giga\'s question, I don\'t work there. Capcom is the SysAdmin there and I simply help out from time to time.
translation,
Haha, Thanks goodness, I am not like Capcom who have to deal with the "ghost" everynight.
Sure LIC, we know what you mean when you say that.:p ;)
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In other countrys that kinda stuff is crazy & people are very supersticious. When I was younger I used to go to Guatemala every year during the summer to visit family, my cousin used ot take me to graveyards at night and we would basically go witch hunting, if you look around long enough you\'d find groups of people literally burning human bones and humming or saying some wierd shit, of course it scared the living crap out fo me and I didn\'t sleep for weeks lolol.
Also there is this one tree everyone reffers to as the devils tree because the roots go so deep into the ground that the devil can use them for evil, was pretty hard to believe until this guy drove straight into one and killed himself by my grandfathers house, once again I couldn\' sleep for weeks LOL.
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Lic and I have tried our hand at recording things at my workplace. See what you all think of this. It is not our voice. May post the entire thing later.
http://68.16.30.194/crap1.wav
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W T F.
I had my volume up high too. (ouch). Too bad its not longer
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We were asking if anyone here can understand it. Lic and I are on disagreement as to what was said. If anything.
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Originally posted by Capcom
Lic and I have tried our hand at recording things at my workplace. See what you all think of this. It is not our voice. May post the entire thing later.
http://68.16.30.194/crap1.wav
i downloaded it and listen to it. It was 2 second long.
Then I opened it on Cool Edit 2k. I was surprise to see the 192,000 sampling. The spec is 192,000 Hz at 16 bits, mono. the sound was clip at past O dB which means hitting the red.
since the 192,000 Hz sampling is too high for this Cool Edit 2k software to play it back, I adjust it to 96,000 Hz and to 48 Khz and 44.1 Khz.
Nope, I didn\'t convert it down. I just let it player at lower than 192 Khz which makes it player longer than 2 seconds. The S/N dB or signal to noise ratio is about -48....
any thought or comments? I am going to try the software WaveLite to see if it can playback 192,000 Hz Sampling or it\'s reaching the limit of my soundcard at 96 Khz...
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Okay,
I downconvert it to 96 kHz on Cool Edit and listen to it, and it sounds like it say "Yao keep?"
I alsow downconvert it from 192 Khz to 48 Khz, and later from 192 Khz to 22 Khz.
From 22 kHz i adjust it to 44 Khz to makes it player twice as fast. As it playback twice as fast, it sounds like a cat streaking and screaming...
I would like to make a slight correction, the recording signal to noise ratio is about -45 dB, not -48 as i check it again. About half the dynamic and S/N of 16 bits limits of CD which is -96 dB max.
Then I open it on WaveLab Lite, and its play at 192,000 sampling. So, that means my soundcard can play up to 192,000 Hz per sec....amazing...
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Response to LIC and Capcom=bullshit. :P
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That\'s up for you to decide.
:D
I disagree and other\'s do - each to his own.
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i have a question.
why did you two (Cap and Lic) recorded it at 192,000 Hz?
That\'s beyond the CD limits of 44,100 Hz.
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We are not burning it to a cd.
Not sure it matters unless there was some reason not to. Still have the orig unaltered.
Originally posted by Paul2
i have a question.
why did you two (Cap and Lic) recorded it at 192,000 Hz?
That\'s beyond the CD limits of 44,100 Hz.
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then your answer make me skeptical. Because when I play it in slow motion, from 192 Khz to 96 Khz or lower such as 48 khz or 44.1 Khz, it makes this sound, pretty much similiar to when you go to a store and buy something say a shirt, the cashier scan the tag\'s bar code and it make that tut sound...
pretty much exactly like that sound.
The tut noise last for a short seconds then it make this noise that sound like thunder and maybe a bear scratching some hard and sounded like someone pull a trigger or something, the sound slightly varies from different frequency sampling. I even try 64 kHz sampling.
Esp, the highest sampling does sounded like someone is saying something and purposedly make it difficult to hear and it seem like someone make it short so we can\'t hear the rest of it.
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Uhm yeah ok. If you think I forged it. It is your call. That was the only useable thing out of the tape. When moved it over to the pc I chose the highest sampling rate. It sounded like the tape. So IMHO the highest sampling rate makes no difference.
Then again the original question was do you hear anything in it. AKA does it sound like words. Not if I LIC and I are lying for whatever reason.
Originally posted by Paul2
then your answer make me skeptical. Because when I play it in slow motion, from 192 Khz to 96 Khz or lower such as 48 khz or 44.1 Khz, it makes this sound, pretty much similiar to when you go to a store and buy something say a shirt, the cashier scan the tag\'s bar code and it make that tut sound...
pretty much exactly like that sound.
The tut noise last for a short seconds then it make this noise that sound like thunder and maybe a bear scratching some hard and sounded like someone pull a trigger or something, the sound slightly varies from different frequency sampling. I even try 64 kHz sampling.
Esp, the highest sampling does sounded like someone is saying something and purposedly make it difficult to hear and it seem like someone make it short so we can\'t hear the rest of it.
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Paul2 post how it sounds to you.
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Hold on, you have human bones in your basement......and you don\'t report it to the police? Thats wrong.......it could be a missing person that was never found, or it could just be someone who was buried there. I don\'t think it would be to bad for the store.....
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Originally posted by cloud345
Hold on, you have human bones in your basement......and you don\'t report it to the police? Thats wrong.......it could be a missing person that was never found, or it could just be someone who was buried there. I don\'t think it would be to bad for the store.....
Small town.
Bones .
End of business.
It\'s just that simple.
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Originally posted by Capcom
Uhm yeah ok. If you think I forged it. It is your call. That was the only useable thing out of the tape. When moved it over to the pc I chose the highest sampling rate. It sounded like the tape. So IMHO the highest sampling rate makes no difference.
Then again the original question was do you hear anything in it. AKA does it sound like words. Not if I LIC and I are lying for whatever reason.
tape, what sort of tape is this? VHS tape, or audio cassette tape? and you connect it to the computer and record the sound at 192,000 Hz sampling. Okay, I am curious why? Since either tape I believe only support abuot 22,000 Hz sampling and you go way beyond that.
Another question, what sort of stuff you use to record it? A tape player with mic on?
When you record it on pc, did you purposedly turn up the record volume level so it clipped (hitting passed the red) to causes distortion and make it sound louder or something?
Also, why only 2 seconds long? You just wasted bandwidth when you play record at 192,000 Hz for only 2 seconds long. With that same amount of bandwidth, but sample at 48 kHz (more than twice the sample of analog tape), you can get up to 8 seconds of it....
So, I want to hear the rest of your tape if that\'s possible.:bounce:
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Dude , what in the hell is your defect? You are going overboard on this.
(1) It was a digital recorder.
(2) Capcom and I know nothing about audio and when ported it over to PC we used the highest rate, figuring highest was best.
(3) We also done it at the rate you recommend and it sounds the same.
(4) It\'s only two seconds long, because that\'s the best two seconds. We also have various moans and gibberish, but nothing that actualy is creepy.
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show us the moans and gibberish.
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Originally posted by Paul2
show us the moans and gibberish.
Show you?
Don\'t you mean allow you to listen.
;D
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yeah,
that\'s what i mean. Unless, you want to show us that. :D
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can anybody say accesory to murder do you honeslty think that anyone would risk going to prison for a long long time for thier "Employer"
I think not........
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Sounds like "No Key"
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Originally posted by Paul2
i downloaded it and listen to it. It was 2 second long.
Then I opened it on Cool Edit 2k. I was surprise to see the 192,000 sampling. The spec is 192,000 Hz at 16 bits, mono. the sound was clip at past O dB which means hitting the red.
since the 192,000 Hz sampling is too high for this Cool Edit 2k software to play it back, I adjust it to 96,000 Hz and to 48 Khz and 44.1 Khz.
Nope, I didn\'t convert it down. I just let it player at lower than 192 Khz which makes it player longer than 2 seconds. The S/N dB or signal to noise ratio is about -48....
any thought or comments? I am going to try the software WaveLite to see if it can playback 192,000 Hz Sampling or it\'s reaching the limit of my soundcard at 96 Khz...
You like to overcomplicate things, don\'t ya Paully :laughing: Sorry it didn\'t just play for you...I just downloaded it and it played fine. It sounded like a tiger eating a dog and then barfing it up...sounds creepy...
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Originally posted by Cyrus
can anybody say accesory to murder do you honeslty think that anyone would risk going to prison for a long long time for thier "Employer"
I think not........
You saying it\'s a lie?
It\'s not.
The building is extremely old . You would be surprised the things that happen in small towns and the stuff covered up. Me, personally, I have no problem with the fact the bones was put back and nothing said and I don\'t think anyone else has a problem with it.
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Originally posted by EviscerationX
You like to overcomplicate things, don\'t ya Paully :laughing: Sorry it didn\'t just play for you...I just downloaded it and it played fine. It sounded like a tiger eating a dog and then barfing it up...sounds creepy...
Maybe I like to analyze things. Perhaps, and it seems like i overcomplicate things. But that\'s just how I am. I am an audio/video freak.
When I downloaded that clip. It plays fine too on my Window Media player.
Then I got curious about the "audio performance" of it so I open it up on a program software.
I analyze and write down those details that I find such as its only 2 seconds long, frequency is 192 Khz, 16 bits, mono...
what else? it clips on red...signal to noise ratio is -48...blah blah blah...
I am just interested in those stuff...
same things with video like dvd movies and videos.
When I watch dvd movies or dvd videos, and to my surprise some video transfer were off....
by that i mean, severe edge enhancements (unnatural and actually loses detail that way), color oversaturated (clips on colors and loses it color dynamic), or the brightness is too low or too high or the contrast/picture is off too. These stuffs, when i see them. They looks unnatural and not good. To think some of these people that are in charge of video transfer to dvd knows what they are doing is wrong. They didn\'t know putting edge enhancement or turning up the color making it oversaturated are unnatural ways to do it can\'t be fix once its transfer into DVD. Unless they kept the uncompress video/lossless video untampered or something.
Most common things i see on DVD videos nowadays that irritated me is edge enhancements...I don\'t like these stuffs, unless the director did it on purpose as some sort of special effects or its their imaginative artist ways. But way more often than not, they just didn\'t know that putting edge enhancements and color clips loses detail and stuff...
Back to the audio clip that Cap and Lic linked. I analyze it. I am just curious why it is like this such as only 2 seconds like? Why it\'s clipped passed the 0 dB dynamic (hitting the red)?...
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^^^^^^
You obviously seem to know hella more than me, so I\'m not even going to touch that with a 40 foot pole ;)
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yeah...:nut:
so,
can we all get to hear the rest of this audio clip that Cap/LIC recorded?
If its get too long, edit it too makes reasonable shorter. We wants to hear the important parts of it.
This time, save it in 48 khz sampling please and if you can, record it that it doesn\'t clip red by turning down the volume from either the PC or your "audio recorder" to a reasonable level...
I am curious too, maybe when you record, you get too close to this loud sound that it clips when you first record it into the your "digital audio recorder", hence maybe that\'s why its clip red. But i doubt it clips that severe. So I honestly think you turn up the sound pressure level higher making it clips and louder than it should be when you record it into the PC.