Besides the well-known optical illusions there are acoustic ones, too. Perhaps the most popular acoustics illusion is the effect that was discovered by Shepard: A scale that gives the listener the impression of an endlessly rising melody - but in fact the pitch of the tones does not rise. This way it is possible to play musical pieces that would otherwise cross the human perception threshold.

Take the following example: You will hear a very simple melody which seems to rise. Sing with the sound and you will clearly realize that you will get off one octave higher than at the start. But - wait a moment! Replay the sound and verify that the last tone is exacly as high as the first! The illusion is perfect. If you do not believe it, then save the sound file and compare the fist and last tones directly, e.g. with a sound player or editor. read more

Kiddierekordking.com is happy to share this music library of excerpts from some of their favorite old kiddie records. Copyright permitting, they can make custom CD recordings of these old records from their collection. Just contact them with your requests. The records shown here are just a very small sample of what they have.  They have over 10,000 vintage kiddie records, so there is very good chance that they have just the one(s) you are seeking. Enjoy the experience and thanks for looking!

t.y.p.o.r.g.a.n.i.s.m : Visual Composer check it out !

Make it your new friend. The amazing audio cassette. Symbol of the ’80s. Simple, portable, recordable, fun. It’s a dead format now (just about anyway), replaced by the CD-R and mp3, but that doesn’t mean we can’t still put it to good use.

Let’s get started destroying some tape!

Custom built effects pedals by Mike :

Once I became disgusted with trying to find a great sounding distortion/fuzz pedal for bass guitar I decided that since i knew how to solder and basic circuitry I was going to build one instead.  After many hours researching on internet sites and soldering away in my basement, I have come up with two pedals that I feel have a great vintage, yet over the top, tubey fuzz to them… without the loss of bass most distortion pedals give you.  Then, much to my wife’s dismay, I began to build other pedals… 

Guitar Effects Schematics : Schematics & circuits for guitar effects with vacuum tubes and solid state
electronics. FREE downloads of schematics such as TS-9, Fuzz Face and other classic rock devices.

One of the most fascinating aspects of electronic music, part and parcel of its ability to create new and unique sonorities never before heard on the planet, is its ability to directly stimulate the brain through the auditory center. Psychoacoustics, as art and science, allows technology to create sounds that can either fool the brain into false perceptions of its environment or cause the brain to react on a subconscious level to what the ears perceive. Examples include the shudders in the limbs and torso when chalk scrapes across a blackboard, the feeling of awe when in the presence of a church organ playing bass pedal tones, or (somewhat more obscurely) the use of time delay and frequency equalization to fool the brain into believing that the body is in a different environment than it really is, like a cavern or cathedral, or even that sonic events are occurring *inside the listener’s head*. But an area of psychoacoustics that has never been explored in any depth is that of, um, well, um, sexual stimulus.

Can sound directly induce orgasm?

Synth Mania, a web site dedicated mainly to synthesizers, but also keyboards, pianos, organs, drum-machines and electronic sound-making devices in general.  Here you will find information on several models that I own/have owned in the past, I’m familiar with, or simply have specs/data about.

"Famous sounds" on synthmania are sounds that have been created or used by somebody, liked and then copied by many others, and thus earned a "classic" status. Download them for free !

This document is designed to offer guidance to researchers interested in obtaining audio recording equipment for conducting folklore, ethnomusicology, oral history and other ethnographic fieldwork projects. Before your eyes pop too far out of your head after seeing the prices of the equipment listed below, be aware that almost all this stuff is high-quality, professional or "prosumer" grade. In truth, any cassette recorder and any mic will do the job. However, the better the quality of your equipment, the better the end product will sound. Read more

II. Analog Audio Cassette Recorders
III. Portable Compact Disk Recorders
IV. DAT Recorders
V. Direct-to-Laptop Recording
VI. MiniDisc Recorders
VII. Hi-MD Recorders
VIII. .mp3 Recorders
IX. Solid State Memory Card Recorders
X. "Hybrid" Recorders
XI. Motherships: i.e. Really Expensive Digital Stuff
XII. Microphones
XIII. Microphone Stands
XIV. Cables and Accessories
XV. Equipment Suppliers
XVI. Other Online and Print Resources
XVII. Some Final Words

If you use a Windows, Mac or Linux PC to listen to your digital music—whether you’re grooving at your computer, piping tracks to your home stereo, or loading your iPod or MP3 player—MusicIP makes music more accessible and more enjoyable.
It’s a multi-million dollar MUSIC development application—and it’s yours for FREE.

Do you have tons of digital music, but not much time? Are you in the mood for great tunes, but don’t have the patience—or the interest—in thumbing through your tracks?
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These a Cappellas are for your own personal use to make your own remixes.

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You can even add smooth fade-ins or fade-outs to your new file, or change the over all gain. In addition, you can also join songs together, divide them, repair broken MP3s or simply analyze them frame by frame.

You may try out MP3 Trimmer for as long as you want. There is no time limit, and all features are unlocked for you to try out! The only restrictions are a register reminder that pops up and delays you when you initiate various functions, and some limitations in the drag-and-drop functionality.

Welcome to Musipedia! Inspired by, but not affiliated with Wikipedia, They are building a searchable, editable, and expandable collection of tunes, melodies, and musical themes.

Every entry can be edited by anybody. An entry can contain a bit of sheet music, a MIDI file, textual information about the work and the composer, and last but not least the Parsons Code, a rough description of the melodic contour, to make the encyclopedia searchable by melody.

What is good quality media? which media is best for my writer? Why does a media not record well time after time on my writer? 
It’s a minefield for the first time user to try and find the right balance between price and quality for their DVD backup needs. Read more on CDR-Zone.

The four recordings which are available for download from this page are from original copies in my collection of gramophone records, made in 1897 to 1899. They are available in both MP3 format, and as extracts only in RealAudio (in this case they have been encoded in the better-quality 15 kB/sec format to preserve the quality as much as possible, but even so the surface noise has been increased in the process).

The fascination with them is their sheer age. When they were made the gramophone was little more than a toy, not expected to be more than a passing fad. These little glimpses of the Victorian era, dim and almost unintelligable though they are, are an almost magical link with a long-gone age.

The records themselves are seven inches in diameter, and instead of having a stuck-on paper label, the information is pressed or engraved in the wax (the titles are often written by hand, as is - usefully - the recording date).