Andres Ramos

Sound examples without external modulation

Here some sound examples gained from the LINGER without external modulation. They were processed by reverb, voice pitch and 15% denoising.

"Der Herr dort segne unseren Test" -> "The Lord there bless our test"

"Du hast den Test bestanden" -> "You have passed the test"

"Es ist ein Fenster auf" -> "A window has opened"

"Heut mit Grenzen" -> "Today with limits"

"Die schmecken sie selbst" -> "They taste them themselves" This sample was processed with Michael Lee's itc-translator.

Introduction

This development actually was a spin-off from an experiment with light coming from the sky that can be found here.

In this experiment I observed that daylight shining on a phototransistor with a substantial light intensity causes noise that shows pk modulation. During my experiment I tested light sources different from daylight and found out that ultraviolet and yellow LED light are causing more or less the same effect. That opened the path to a device I called LINGER (Light Induced Noise Gated EVP Receiver)

Schematic of electronic circuit

As you can see the electronic is rather simple.

The first stage is made of the transistor K2 that drives the LED to excite the phototransistor K3. The LED light can also be modulated by an external audio source through the connector X1. Transistor K4 is a tricky feature that is boosting the output of the noise from K3. The transistor K5 is levelling the amplitude up so that the final stage made from  the SSM 2167 can work with it properly. This circuit is a microphone signal conditioner. It amplifies and compresses the signal and routes it through a noise gate. The noise gate works as a very effective amplifier for pk modulation.

What makes working with this device so appealing is the fact that you only need one knob to adjust the pk modulation for maximum and a second knob to adjust the external modulation. However you also can run the LINGER without modulation.

The device is powered by 8 NiMH batteries.

Hm, I just stumbled upon an impulse wave simulator. 

https://connecthostproject.com/spectre_pulse_en.html

I played with a 1 khz signal and pulse widths between 10 and 100 us and 10 calculated harmonics. From what I saw the spectrum shape definitely changes and shows a sinusoidal amplitude distribution depending on the pulse width.

This is true. The spectrum shape does not change with shorter duty cycles but the amplitudes of the harmonics are increasing all.

Maybe you're right. I remember many years ago when I was married with my first wife she took me to an opera performance from Arnold Schönberg's "Moses and Aaron", a composition based on the 12-tone system. In my ears it was full of dissonance but it was valued as deep spiritual music.

Maybe what is negative is not the sound but our negative reaction, as you said.

As I already mentioned in RC, if you are shortening the duty cycle of an impulse train, the bandwith of the signal should increase in terms of higher amplitudes of the harmonics.

35 minutes ago, Karyn said:

If you want to see marvellous spirit art to me, the exquisite drawings of the Bangs Sisters is up there with the finest.

https://www.amazon.com.au/Portraits-Beyond-Mediumship-Bangs-Sisters/dp/1910121657

I posted up his full range of books (Riley N Heagerty) in Mediumship I think.  I do not know where you live but I believe some are on display at Lilydale.

Spirit art! What a marvelous creation. I always was touched by the idea that there is not just technical or mediumship based communication between our realm and the hereafter but also the exchange of music or paintings.

10 hours ago, Keith J. Clark said:

lol, these sounds are so freakish I suggest you keep the recordings in a separate folder - in case one day we can use them for videos!

I still hold firm to the idea that the noise dictates our response. I've grown accustomed to any voice and whenever I think I hear something negative I realize Im emotionally involved, then I pull back to an objective state. There are times where some tones have the ability to cause panic attacks for those sensitive, like you and me. I just experienced that the other night. so I changed the tone.

the second, 4th, and 5th samples seem to hold the most promise

 

Yeah that's true. However this time I got no panic, I just felt compassion for those beings in the hereafter who are suffering from their own demons they created and I instantly felt obliged to pray for them.

I think that harmonic tones are attracting positive entities and disharmonic ones rather negative ones. It's all about tuning and maybe a feedback process from our own soul tjat also changes due to the sounds it perceives.

I have a backup program that saves all my project files in my STRATO cloud drive every day. Thus the files are backuped.

Today I will try some more optimizations.

The rest of my results from tonight.

A scary sounding cacophony. I heard many negative utterances from this voice. Later the spirit talked about being condemned, suffering, dead corpses and paying.

Talks about three corpses and payment (German)

Du bist 60 -> You are 60 years old (I'm almost 59 actually)

Das täuscht -> This is deceptive

Singing spirit(like indian natives)

1 hour ago, Keith J. Clark said:

Hi Andres, is there a way to limit the range in which the tone varies? For example, to first keep it between 80-400hz to get closer to human speech patterns.

I presume we're not able to input a sound sample and the randomness of the circuit determines the tone?

Good stuff. imagine if you had 7 of these devices running in parallel...each limiting its fundamental or harmonic base tone to stay within the defined range.

 

For example:

Fundamental 100-200Hz

1st Harmonic 200-300Hz

2nd harmonics 300-400Hz

The spacing between the tones is anywhere from 1-100Hz with no overlap.

Just thinking out loud of ways to modify this to keep freqs within typical human voice range 

Great experiment!

I see your idea Keith. Basically the area of tone changes can be narrowed down to a smaller range. However the problem is that the SpiCa unit is not a standard sweeping audio generator. Instead of linearly sweeping a tone over a specified range it rather sweeps across a range made from different tone combinations with some linear sweep in-between. During the sweep the SpiCa instantly jumps from one chord or tone combination to another one.

What you proposed would rather be system of linear sweeping audio generators tuned to different frequency bands and every generator controlled by its own speech pattern generator. This is an easy design of equally made but differently tuned modules. Just a lot of work because you need some of them but no problem technically. In fact this design would share some functions with the Spiricom.

55 minutes ago, Keith J. Clark said:

I don't believe in coincidences

Neither do I. 

I value this discussion as a very good attempt to bring together all our results and lessons learned. Like you I am hoping for something like the uniform spirit voice theory.

For a long time I was just experimenting with noise in all its different flavors. i think I designed a dozen different deviced where noise was created and processed in all thinkable ways. In the end the results were all comparable. Noise seems to be the ideal stuff to wotk with because it is "fluid", very agile and basically contains all spectral components needed for the creation of human voices. The problem is that the pk-modulation in every device is so poor that all results were suffering from a very bad signal to noise ratio (SNR). The SNR was improved with pink noise but I had to pay the price of even more deteriorated spectral material. The voices were rough, croaky like grunting stoneage people.

It was some weeks ago as I remembered that Keith always worked with tones and harmonics. This led me to the idea to abandon the experiments with noise and concentrate more on the generation of sounds and tones instead of noise. The VISPRE was my first approach and now I am worrking with the SpiCa, a semi-chaotic audio circuit that converts voltage fluctuations into combinations of tones. It's a highly fragile and agile circuit that outputs digital signals.

I learned two things from my experiments and I can say that my results are aligned with Keith's theory. Firstly the spectral material that we should offer to the spirits should be made of tones and harmonics rather than noise. The nearer these tone combinations are to human voices the easier the spirits can recombine the spectral composition. Secondly, we need something to excite the tone circuit. Jeff calls this dynamism as far as I remember. basically it means that static tones left alone will not produce spirit voices, we always need to add what I call speech patterns which are impulse groups having the shape of a voice envelope function.

In my experiments with microphone recordings I could abserve that spirits are using everything I offer them as sound. When I was opening and closing drawers, they created voices rumbling with exactly that sound and rhythm. When i was typing on my keyboard they used the rhythm and sound to generate clicking voices. It always appeared to me they were able to reconfigure spectral content but never the rhythm. It appears to me they are constantly analyzing the rhythm of the sounds we create and aligning their desired voice content with it. In short terms, they have to see what they can do with that rhythm we provide because they cannot change it. What they can change is the spectral distribution of the original sound. How they are doing that I have no idea about.

The speech impulse patterns or impulse trains are clearly to be separated from the, lets call it "tone engine", the circuit that produces tones and harmonics.

Currently I am testing a new setup that contains two devices I designed previously. First there is the LINGER unit that generates speech patterns from the LED-light on a phototransistor with enhanced pk moduklation by use of the microphone processing circuit SSM 2167. These impulses are rectified, that means they are reduced to an enevelope function and become speech without any content, they are just rhythm.

This signal is fed into the SpiCa where the voltage fluctuations following the speech rhythm are causing the SpiCa to jump around between different tone combinations. The result sound like human speech but with a very small pool of vocals and consonants so far.

You can hear the results here: SpiCa

Basically I can say that Keith's theory is correct. What we still cannot achieve sufficiently is the combination of entropy and steering tones and harmonics.

Currently I am trying to use the Speech impulses from the LINGER to control the SpiCa circuit. I am testing a new demodulation method to get rid of tones that are not carrying pk modulation. This is actually more a study instead of a working device. What is very interesting is that I can produce some fragments of a human voice. In the present configuration the device produces more or less the vocals "a" and "o" together with some consonants. In sum the voice sounds like a howling lunatic

This tells me that basically the device can produce a voice that can be controlled by random impulses.

Here are some excerpts gained from different settings. Post processing was just reverb (on sequence 3), high pass filtering and slowing the audio down to 40%.

Vocal sequence-1:

Vocal sequence-2:

Vocal sequence-3:

And here is a sequence of a slow speaking voice. The result is amazing so far because I did no language processing with Lingua, Krisp or itc-translator. I applied just reverb, speed slow down and high pass filtering.

I can confirm what Jeff said. A lot of messages I get are containing speech in both directions, forward and in reverse. Often one message is a continuation of the other one or something like question and answer. Basically I see the spirit voices as multilevel information containers. Apart from reverse speech I often got two voices with different speech using the same speech rhythm for different messages. Another weird effect is if you are analyzing a signal with a voice talking at high speed and you slow down the audio to make it more legible. Sometimes more slowing down unveils even more messages talking at normal speed. Speeding up slow talking voices can show the same effect vice versa.

Maybe a spirit signal is like a fractal that is full of different levels of entangled information, self similarities, reflections and possibilities that is taking its final shape only in our minds.

2 hours ago, Keith J. Clark said:

I havent seen the show but did note the reference to Bigelow as an aerospace magnate recently. I found that fact quite intriguing.

Strange coincidence, yes.

I was amazed about the quality you could squeeze out from my audio, Jeff! It seems in general it's a low whispering male voice interspersed with sighs and moans. I could extract some very clear messages.

"Ein neuer Held" -> "A new hero":

"Ich bin immer da" -> "I am always here":

"Brauchen nun Tage" -> "Now we will need some days":

"We're all that bad":

"We're back":

Regarding your idea, you had the right thoughts. However the SpiCa will not be a good source for gating scrambled audio. What you heard is the SpiCa signal after Lingua processing. The raw signal is a semi-chaotic mixture of tones and thus not suitable for gating because the amplitude is more or less constant. But I have another idea I will follow later.

Basically the LINGER would be more suitable for gating scrambled noise because it produces noise bursts in the rythm of speech. The signal would just needed to be demodulated to extract the envelope and then control a noise gate for scrambled audio.

I'm pondering to simulate this process in WavePad before realizing it in hardware because it provides a noise gate function.

Your contribution to this topic was very valiuable, Jeff! It reminds me to set up the JPS I own which I haven't found the time for actually.

Yes, a very warm welcome also from my side Lootje!

Thanks to you and Karyn, my friend.

Another test from today was awesome. I explored the endless configuration possibilities of the device that are greatly expamded by the use of arbitrary audio material to modulate the SpiCa. I found out that adding reverb to the output the Lingua generates and the "willow" voice effect makes the voices more clear. An angel like voice that came out as a result as someone tries to speak very slowly and clearly pronounced.

25 minutes ago, Keith J. Clark said:

Perfect Andres, I'll hook something up tonight with it. I hear it's nice and loud at the moment. 

Yeah. Please be aware the signal will fade away here at night when there is no light. That is daytime in Florida. The most interesting periods are around sunrise and sunset that are around 06:00 am - 07:00 am and 18:00 pm - 19:00 pm local time.

Following your encouraging advices I made another approach with the SpiCa. I cannibalized an existing device that conatins the SpiCa circuit that works pretty good and threw away all the stuff I don't needed. Then I added the latest design ideas and I came up with a new SpiCa v2.0 which I am now exploring. See and hear my proceeding in this little video I made. The Spica is  delivering the sound for the video through the Lingua speech processor.

SpiCa Proceedings

OTH radar could be an explanation. I that case the mirror plating in the funnel would act as a reflector for HF-waves focusing the energy on the phototransistor.  However I doubt this because the impulses quickly fade out by elevating the funnel. Moreover the funnel is facing north and not east. Another fact is that I got those impulses also with LED-light on a phototransistor although not always. Those impulses remains a mystery to me. In any case the spirits seem to use it for their purpose wherever they come from.

On 3/24/2022 at 2:11 AM, Keith J. Clark said:

You guys...this is some amazing stuff! I'm able to make out some of the audio.

 

If either of you wants to live stream or have me set you up with live filtering just let me know in a private message or email

good work!

Thanks Keith. The SkySound is running continuously on Stream 4. You can use it for whatever you want

1 hour ago, Karyn said:

It sounds most interesting Andres, I would be happy to test one.  Blessings Karyn

Great! Thank you Karyn.

Another quick test this morning confirmed my observations. During sunrise I went up into my attic and slowly tilted the light funnel up and down between 0° and 30°.

The parts with the lower level are recorded with 0° elevation. You can clearly hear the crackling static rhythm.

In the signal parts with higher levels (recorded with 30° elevation) just show pure white noise.