Fun with Audio - Chipmunk Chop Suey
Found at Alvin & the Chipmunks >> from Your Daily Awesome
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Once again, I come bearing weirdness. Remember the Chipmunks Christmas Song? Well some guy used an audio processor and reversed the tempo/pitch shift that made the Chipmunks sound like… well, like chipmunks. Upon googling, there are several examples of the two mp3s referenced in the blog post: the Original and the Slowed Down Verison. Of course they're singing at half speed, so it sounds a little like they've been hitting the pharmacy counter… Try this: Take the original file, and load it up in Audacity select all, Effect Menu, then Change Pitch. Enter -11 Semitones and press OK. There. Now you've got the normal SPEED of the song, but the Voices are "normal" (except for Dave, who sounds quite evil).
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We did the same thing for my podcast about the history of the Chipmunks.
http://destinyland.mondoglobo.net/2006/08/23/the-war-of-the-singing-rodents/
I included some links to mp3s in this article about where the group is now. (Apparently a Simpsons writer is creating a new Chipmunks movie!)
http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2006/10/29/haunted-by-chipmunk-ghosts/
Comment by Destiny Land — November 1, 2006 @ 12:33 am