Monday, February 22, 2010

The whispers in Lemp Mansion

Okay, so here's a couple more of the EVP's that were picked up. I was hesitant to include them as they literally are hard to hear and the source for them is even more difficult to ascertain.

In the previous entry, the voice is saying "go home" or "back home", and occurs at 52:25 into the audio file.

At 53:00 we get the first of three whispers. And you can make out the whisper when I used the equalizer on the audio. This whisper appears to be saying something like "Why?". Again, this is difficult to hear.



At 53:08 (8 seconds later) a second whisper is heard following a bang. This one appears to be saying "noth-ing". Or not. I can't tell.



Finally at 53:52 there is yet another whisper. This one is so inaudible you can't even make out what it's saying. I would love to hear a guess. (e-mail me at nemelg@yahoo.com)



Before I get too far, I should elaborate on my audio setup. I am running cakewalk home studio 6 XL on a Quad core 2.66 GHz with 4 GB of ram. I am running the output through the edirol UA-4FX audio interface which has an on-board noise reduction unit (which filters only white noise). With cakewalk, I am using the sonitus:fx equalizer VST plugin to reduce the background sound and try to boost the voices in the audio. Without all of it, the noise is just insane and you can't really hear much.

The recorder that was used is a Olympus VN-5200PC. This unit was selected due to its ability to produce uncompressed wav files and output directly to a PC for processing. The recording times of the unit are insane as it will record well beyond the battery life which is estimated at 24 hours of recording time. The audio from it is remarkably clean and without background noise, the recordings are pleasantly quiet.

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