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Most if us have been on broadband so long that the sound of dial-up is terrifying regardless what speed it is played at. This is still pretty nifty.
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Slowed down 700%? Wouldn't slowing something down by 100% completely stop it, let alone 700%?
No. Sometimes that takes 10 seconds to complete is 1000% times slower than something that takes 1 second to complete. If you're playing audio at 1/7th it's original rate, it's 700% slower than it was originally.
Creepily awesome.
Slowed down 700%? Wouldn't slowing something down by 100% completely stop it, let alone 700%?
No, if I remove 100% of sometihng, I have nothing left, if I remove 700%, I violate the laws of physics. Someting running @ 1/7th's its original rate would be running 85.7% slower.
This is why people fail simple thihngs like if I remove 50% of something then add 50% back...I don't have the original.
x2Agreed the dial-up sound is scary at any playback speed. I remember Napstering it up on a 48.8 connection in high school.
OH god, I can see the movie now...it starts out in the year 2020 (or whatever)
The last known user of dial up died. But no one knows why.
But then suddenly something goes wrong, Dial Up has come alive, and wants broadband to feel it's terror. And scare the living shit out of the users.
It's original sound has been altered, longer, and more terrifying. The sound alone can kill you. Or scare you half to death. Broadband has been taken by the sound of the Death Dial Up.
Bah fuck it...cheesy as hell but hey...I am sure it could make something of a B movie horror film
Otherwise, pretty nifty!
Sounds like they added a huge echo to it.
Sort of like how V'ger came back to haunt us in the future?
It's most likely just the algorithm they used to stretch the audio file out. Some really nice whole-tone stuff going on there though!
Yes....It is time stretched. Slowing audio down results in a lowering of the pitch.
Haha, not sure! Had to look it up, was never really much up on Star Trek...just the movies!