Emergence of Weird

Here, listen to this weird crap that Audacity did to this recording.

I'm up really late, so late that it's now mid-morning. I was playing guitar and thought I'd try recording a song with this shitty ambient mic I have, which is so oddly sensitive my guitar playing records fine but my singing causes it to distort, which just shows how loudly I sing these days. I didn't always sing that loud, I developed a loud singing voice due to singing in my dad's band with a shitty sound system and the mic never had enough gain on it. The song is one that will be on Acoustafuckit Parte Tres when I get around to doing it (I don't have enough songs yet, I really want to get to the fourth Acoustafuckit because that one's going to be called Acousta4kit). I played and sang the song from several feet away so as not to distort the mic too badly. When I listened to the playback the guitar sounded pretty good, the voice not so much, but everything was swimming in this awful ambient noise. So I turned to Audacity's ever unreliable Noise Removal effect, which often removes far too much noise or so little noise you can't tell it removed any. Even if you get it to remove just the noise you want the finished sound usually has this odd treated quality, and kind of a phaser sound.

Well just to show me it could still surprise me, this time the Noise Removal effect did something new. It muffled everything but gave it this strange synthesized and phased quality like I'd played it on an old keyboard or through a really weird stompbox but no, it's just acoustic guitar and my voice. I am now trying to think of a way to use this really strange really cool sound in a future recording, and also hoping that when it comes up I'll be able to figure out how to get it to do this again.