New SCP based on something that happened in the Tamlin House RP.
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"fish lizard rat monkey man [garbled] end forever"
And then I upvoted.
This isn't very far off from being plausible. Mental distress has been recorded from individuals in "quiet rooms" where there is literally zero ambient sound. It messes with your head.
I'm assuming that the pitch-adjusted version of this file is similar to a work by Merzbow.
(account deleted)I only count 2 uses of the word "appear", although I agree that one of them could be changed. Where, specifically, are you having a problem?
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I believe it's in regards to this:
To unaided human hearing, it appears to be a blank or silent file.
"Is it or isn't it?"
Well… if your hearing is unaided, then that's what it is appearing to be. If you wear goggles with blue-tinted lenses, everything will appear to be blue. The statement seems pretty unambiguous to me.
Exactly. The file does have sound playing, but it's right at or just above the upper threshold that an average human can hear. So they don't hear anything; it's blank as far as they can hear.
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Really similar to SCP-1813, think I went crosseyed reading this. Although the effect is well written, and sort of cool, it's EXTREMELY similar.
Just… +1 for now. I just feel like they're related somehow.
That… dammit, I had completely forgotten about that one. I will say that this one was in no way inspired by that one. If you want to posit a headcanon link, though, feel free.
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It seems to me like one could be the product of another, so, yeah it's not a bad thing.
Serously, the memory of some people around here.. Quite impressive.
However I don't think theyre that similar. I mean , they're both weird sounds with weird effects, but the effects are quite different.
I enthousiastically upvoted! That last addendum really made my mind wander. I like it when an SCP does that.
In fact, it's what lesser authors probably try to establish with throwing in a [REDACTED] here or there. It's supposed to make you think about what happened, or what it means, but it so, so rarely works.
This addendum works much better. Well done.
It would be a little more clinical to describe the file as a "sound file encoded in the Waveform Audio File Format" or similar phrasing, as opposed to listing the file extension. Encoding is what actually matters; I can put any extension I like on the file, but it won't change the underlying enoding.
Thank you. That is exactly what I meant. I'll go change that now.
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Old thread, but… Waveform itself doesn't specify encoding. It's a container format. It usually carries raw PCM audio, but not always; WAV files containing MP3 audio data aren't hard to find.
It's not surprising that the anomalous properties are lost in conversion to MP3, as (I think) lossy audio compression tends to be pretty unforgiving to inaudible frequencies. But the text as written implies that if you take that PCM data stream and wrap it, unmodified, in something like AIFF, then the anomalous properties are still lost. That's a distinction I find more interesting.
Also, I'd kind of expect a technical description of a WAV file to include its specifications (ie. 44.1 kHz 16-bit stereo PCM).
It was kind of weird to me that it's specified to only work at volumes between 35 dB and 65 dB, but there's no discussion of the DAC or speakers. Does it still work if you play it through a subwoofer?
And I'm only kind of an audio nerd.
This was pretty snazzy, though it reminds me a lot about that Manatee.
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Although SCP-1198 does not affect any individual who is incapable of hearing it,
I thought no one could hear it, since it's too high-frequency?
Upvoted, anyway.
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