Favorite Common Beeps/Bloops?

topic posted Tue, April 6, 2004 - 11:55 AM by  Unsubscribed
Name your favorite household electronic sounds! [they don't have to be in *your* household tho]

Mine:

- my toaster oven's ready-cycle alert
- my electric dish heater when it starts up (not so much a beep, but a long electric NNNNNNNNNNGGGGGG sound that would make a great sampler patch)
- the car door sample on the Soft Pink Truth record


Who else?
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    Tue, April 6, 2004 - 12:10 PM
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      Tue, April 6, 2004 - 12:16 PM
      SWEEEEEEET...

      very cool link Warpup. Thanks!

      There was an internet project a while back where someone had recorded the sound of their SCSI card frying or something, and everybody took the sounds and made them into songs. I started a track but never got to finish/post it...

      Who else has beep favorites?
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        Tue, April 6, 2004 - 1:52 PM
        i like the blips that happen when there is a glitch in a burned cd.
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          Tue, April 6, 2004 - 2:10 PM
          Totally - it'd be cool to try and capture/sample some o' those too. I've heard cd skips that turn something lame like a Yanni cd and turn it into 190 BPM gabber...
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            Tue, April 6, 2004 - 5:44 PM
            totalls
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              Tue, April 13, 2004 - 4:37 PM
              i thought of a new beep i enjoy. The ones that work out machines make when you turn them on. for example stairmsaters, treamills, stationary bikes, etc..

              i work in a gym. surrounded by strict machines.

              mmmmmmmm
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                Tue, April 13, 2004 - 4:45 PM
                SARA!

                Do you have a minidisc recorder?!

                I command you to record said health club beeps, and if you don't use 'em for a track I will!


                (obviously my remote 'commands' are as viable as a Russian bank, but you get the hint... ;)
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                  Wed, April 14, 2004 - 9:39 AM
                  i do not have a mini disc recorded..for i am 80's old school and carry around a huge hunky tape recorder. i could record them on that .....
                  tell me more of your wishes and i will follow...
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                    Wed, April 14, 2004 - 10:35 AM
                    Hmmm... lemme think about this.


                    Cassettes are very noisy for my purposes, but not impossible. Do you have a video camera? That might be cleaner...
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                      Wed, April 14, 2004 - 1:07 PM
                      nope...no video camera..but i do attend an art school. ill ask around for a mini disc or a video camera
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                        Wed, April 14, 2004 - 1:14 PM
                        :)))

                        I promise you'll get first listen/say on anything produced w/ your samples...

                        Minidiscs are actually amazing personal electronic devices to have, not just for field recording. I love mine, use it as a walkman...
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                          Thu, April 15, 2004 - 8:45 AM
                          i just talked to somone with a mac laptop with microphones that could record it...or theres one another girl i know who's got a digital recorder. what should i go with..computer or the digital recorder?
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                            Thu, April 15, 2004 - 12:02 PM
                            Oh my... choices, choices!

                            If the digital recorder is one of those small dictaphone-type things where you just press a button, then we should opt for the laptop fo'sho; only if the recorder is something like a DAT, etc. should it be used...

                            So if the laptop is going to be the recording device, have the person save the sounds as .wav or .aiff, hopefully at least 16 bit... feel free to message me if you wanna go into more detail here.

                            Sara's gonna get a custom-made song! A symphony of health club beeps...

                            Sara - what's your favorite style of beats? Or d'ya not have anything particular in mind?
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                              Mon, April 19, 2004 - 8:54 AM
                              nothin particular in mind i guess. i like lots of styles...
                              i probably see if i can use the laptop. this week maybe
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                                Mon, April 19, 2004 - 12:13 PM
                                Sounds good. Lemme know how this is progressing... whatever I do with it, promise to make it funky.
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                                  Tue, May 4, 2004 - 12:14 PM
                                  Sooooooo...


                                  ?


                                  [blink blink]
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                                    Tue, May 4, 2004 - 2:43 PM
                                    still workin on it
                                    you know i gotta rely on someon else for the equipment and everyones crazy cause its finals week. so far as it stands my buddy promised to record the sounds this friday morning....
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                                      Tue, May 4, 2004 - 3:48 PM
                                      Ooooh, yikes. Dreaded finals week!

                                      You're off the hook for another 10 days or so. May The Force Be With You on them tests, and still can't wait to get physically phit & phunky w/ them sounds...
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                                        Tue, May 4, 2004 - 11:49 PM
                                        my girlfriend julia made a tape recording of her dishwaher's cycle so she could listen to it to mellow out.
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                                          Wed, May 5, 2004 - 12:02 PM
                                          thats awesome...
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                                            Wed, May 5, 2004 - 2:03 PM
                                            Dan-

                                            if you care to digitize it, I'll take a stab at making a tune out of that too...
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                                              Sat, May 8, 2004 - 10:40 AM
                                              ok so here's the deal. my friend who came to record the beeps came with me yesterday and the gym was so loud due to the fucked up air conditioner that we couldn't record any of the beeps. Instead we recorded cool sounds like weights clinking together and bouncy balls bouncing, the sound of the tread mills on, and the stationary bikes. he will make a cd of the sounds for me and then i can send you the cd.
                                              still interested??
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                                              Sat, May 8, 2004 - 11:48 AM
                                              > Dan-

                                              > if you care to digitize it, I'll take a stab at making a
                                              > tune out of that too...

                                              Excellent! let me look into that...
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                                                Mon, May 10, 2004 - 3:03 PM
                                                Sara - sure! Give me what you got- I'll message you.

                                                (sweeet! New sounds to play with!)


                                                Dan J - let me know if you need any help w/ processing, software, etc.
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                                                  Thu, May 13, 2004 - 1:52 PM
                                                  help yes. i was thinking of just send you the cd itself or if you can explain to me how to get the music from the cd onto the computer to send it, that might be better...
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                                                    Thu, May 13, 2004 - 2:28 PM
                                                    Having just messaged you, I hope this is resolved- but if not let me know.

                                                    can't wait!

                                                    I wish there was a way we could post the finished result here so others could listen to it like [gulp... dare I say it?] myspace...
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                                                      Tue, May 18, 2004 - 7:00 AM
                                                      you can post it on myspace and not here? hmmmm
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                                                        Fri, June 25, 2004 - 2:48 PM
                                                        Well kids, the song is about halfway arranged at this point and I have to say- I'm excited about it! It sounds pretty cool- who woulda thunk that dribbling basketballs could make such good kickdrum samples?

                                                        The only non-Sara's-gym sample used is an organ loop I made as a melodic anchor; I chose the organ because

                                                        (a) you know, organs... bodies... in the gym... that whole thing...

                                                        (b) the natural ambience of the recording suggests a large, open space (your gym must have huge ceilings!) ... like a church. Plus the whole connection of the cult of fitness and whatnot.

                                                        Anyway, I'll let y'all know when it's done- if anyone besides our gracious sample donor is interested.
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                                                          Mon, June 28, 2004 - 7:45 PM
                                                          owww. very exciting. i can't wait to hear it!
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                                                            Tue, June 29, 2004 - 10:12 AM
                                                            It's a good sign when you get your own song stuck in your head...
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                                                              Wed, January 12, 2005 - 6:01 AM
                                                              I experienced a very interesting system crash on a win2k machine at my old work... something went wrong and the screen started painting ascii characters all over the screen while the most out there bleeps, bloops, and bursts of white noise poured from the speakers. I called in all of my coworkers (and the employees of the music store that shared our building) to come check it out because I knew they wouldn't believe me unless they heard it themselves, as it sounded like a computer crash from a bad scifi movie.

                                                              sadly we had no portable recording gear (just a DAW in the next office) and I didn't record it... it was an unintentional IDM masterpiece.

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