Yeah, this is bullshit. The human choir voices are clearly edited in over the cricket chirping. This clip made the rounds a few months ago, and it wasnāt any more convincing then, either.
Iām not saying itās real because I donāt know, but the recording itself says it is two layers. One of regular speed and one supposedly slowed down. I donāt see how you can know itās fake because one layer sounds edited in on the other.
Naturally, I am as skeptical as most on this, but I will tell you this,ā¦for many years I have had the same noise in my ears that I have turned to accepting it as tinnitus. The sound is like crickets at night. So does that means I am continually singing to god?
Your nervous system should be emitting a high pitched squeal. Itās all perfectly normal.
You are blessed with Prayer Ears, like the Tibetan Prayer Wheels.
Iām not entirely sure whatās going on, but itās more than just two layers of crickets chirping at different speeds. Either distorted vocals & music was added, or thereās multiple layers of slowed-down cricket sounds manipulated such that they sound like human music.
Taking the thing at face value, I donāt get it. What sort of microphone is being used and by how much is the cricket chirp track slowed down? If itās slowed down enough to produce frequencies found in human choirs then that information must be present in the signal and weād be able to hear it as a very fast, very high pitched choir. If itās too fast or too high pitched for us to hear, then itās approaching (or beyond) ultrasonic.Which most mikes wouldnāt be capable of recording. So this is just aliasing isnāt it?
Well, Iām convinced.
I agree.
If they want people to believe crickets actually sound like that slowed down, then provide a clean track of just the slowed down crickets. When sped up again, if it doesnāt sound like crickets chirping, something else is going on.
Why all the artistic stuff added to it if it would be amazing on its own?
Nice to be reminded of this! I first heard Wilsonās recording 20 years ago; Robbie Robertson used it as the basis for the song āTwisted Hairā for his soundtrack to the 1994 TV series The Native Americans.
I discovered that when I slowed down this recording to various levels
Yeah, sounds like multiple layers of different speeds.
I keep hearing āThe owls are not what they seem.ā
Seems like it would be pretty easy to record some crickets on your own and then slow down the recording. Or easy if it wasnāt the middle of November. Maybe thatās why itās making the rounds now.
The free audio software PaulStretch is excellent for ultra slo-mo of audio, leaving the original frequencies intact.
This recording? Very layered. And as LemoUtan said, any high frequencies (the choir) wouldāve been too high-pitched to capture in the first place.
Itās the high frame rate microphone in the new iPhone 6.
Human choral singing ranges from about 80Hz (Bass) to 1kHz (bloody impressive soprano) but to get HiFi youād really need to capture anywhere up to 12kHz for harmonics (those things that tell you itās a human and not a muddy buzzsaw). But assume the worst and stick with the 1kHz tops. The purported voices are tenor to bass anyway so Iāll stick with the 1kHz for what weāre actually hearing as a āchoirā. For that audio to have been present in the original cricket signal, it would have had to have been sampled at 2kHz (Nyquist) multipled by 2, 4, 8, 16 ā¦ pick the scale down factor you think was used. At half, quarter, maybe even eighth, speeds Iād imagine weād still be hearing crickets, not humans. So Iām going to go for at least a 10 for the slowdown factor. Which just about squeezes into the recording capabilities (at 20kHz) of a pretty expensive pro-audio mike.
Thatās an argument Iād try to make to support a j-u-s-tāp-o-s-s-i-b-l-e claim.
But on the whole, nope nope nope nope nope.
Iām guessing here that Mark doesnāt spend a lot of time on Facebook.
