After upgrading my G4 to Safari 4.0.2 today, my M-Audio 2496 PCI bus internal sound card started making this horrible sound anytime audio was played on it. My first instinct was to capture the sound so I plugged a cable into my laptop and grabbed a few seconds of it in Audacity. Listen at your own risk. It’s loud and unpleasant, but somehow fun and delightful (reminding me of someone I once dated in the past). Fortunately after reinstalling the drivers it started behaving properly again (unfortunately this technique doesn’t work on partners).
Sound Card Glitch
Sounds like some kind of awful car horn, or door bell.
I should make it into an awful ring tone.
There seems to be some kind of harmony in the sound as there is a lower drone going on under the high glitch, i think its some combination of B, E-flat, and F-sharp?
The lower drone-like undertone really gives it an ambient feel, almost has a Brian Eno quality about it. ‘Music for Inside a Computer’ perhaps?! haha, it really is an unpleasant yet delightful sound!
That would make it a B major triad. I hear the B and the Eb. There are some crazy overtones in there too. Thanks for the analysis. Cheers!
Not the kind of thing you want while doing a set! In most clubs that is :)