Ciaran Walsh

Sound designer, music maker, programmer, interactive audio nut, Hornet Sound. GANG Award winner “Best Sound Design in Social/Casual Game” 2017.

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Probably the best thing you'll see today.

In 2017, a group of developers hilariously competed for who could create worst volume control interface in the world.

The results 🧵

1/22

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@IanDunt Deathloop: BBC 10 O’clock News 🤷‍♂️

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Credit where credit’s due - this year’s effort was much better!

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.@Bohunt_Trust thanks for the Christmas lunch served to our kids at Steyning Grammar yesterday, really filled them with festive cheer! 🎄

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I have a rule about not talking politics on the internet but these morons need to call an election now, get the fuck out and never come back 😡

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@MartinSLewis Yeah…

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Also how do dogs know that doorbells on tv are doorbells, even though they don’t sound like our doorbell?

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Peak snuggly

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What kind of sociopath do you have to be to reply to the Epic GitHub thing and intentionally spam 400k inboxes for the lolz…

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@KlausKblog @UndercoverDane @ThomasResen @kasper2619 @MadsDaug @KasperJuel4 @MrJokinen Bellingcat didn’t do that analysis, I did. It’s not wrong - it shows as clearly as a fingerprint that the explosion sound in the Russian video is identical to the source it was taken from. If you really believe you can prove otherwise, show your own analysis.

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@SophMakesSound Not quite what you’re looking for, but RX came in super handy here:

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I was reading a thread at the weekend about a 🇷🇺 false flag video and one of the contributors (@AugustGraham) asked for help analysing some audio. As that’s my area of expertise I had a go and was able to help verify that it was faked. Summary here from @EliotHiggins 1/x

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@TheRealBeano Mine chewed through my PSVR headset cable while I was playing. They’re not replaceable so that was a ~£250 chew!

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@foodz Nothing that isn’t already in my timeline. Joking aside it’s a frustrating aspect of this line of work that the stuff you really want to talk about is nearly always under wraps.

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I was reading a thread at the weekend about a 🇷🇺 false flag video and one of the contributors (@AugustGraham) asked for help analysing some audio. As that’s my area of expertise I had a go and was able to help verify that it was faked. Summary here from @EliotHiggins 1/x

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Anatomy of a Russian Seperatist False Flag - On February 18th the Telegram channel of the press service of the People's Militia of the Donetsk People's Republic published the following video, claiming to show a sabotage operation targeting chlorine tanks
https://t.co/Syk8NG2zKx

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@foodz Haha, well, my tweets about it mostly are. The interesting stuff is usually under NDA 🤐

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Apologies to the people who’ve followed me based on this - you’ve signed up for a handful of boring tweets a year mostly about #gameaudio, not cool audio detective stuff. (But hit me up if I can help again in future) 5/5

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…but if it helps people see more clearly, makes it harder for the disinfo to work, creates a more accurate historical record, that’s all important work and I’m happy I was able to contribute. 4/x

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@AugustGraham @EliotHiggins @bellingcat @foodz I went back to check 1 more thing in the spectrogram - the explosion cutting off as spotted by @AugustGraham. The big arrow shows the v abrupt end of the matching material. The smaller arrows show the voices (horizontal lines indicate pitched sounds), in the M72A5 video only.

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@AugustGraham @EliotHiggins @bellingcat @foodz Here's a spectral analysis of the pairs of explosions in the 2 vids, channels from top: DNR vid L/R, M72A5 vid L/R. Sync is perfect. I've highlighted some distinctive features which are identical, many others are visible. There's no question the explosion audio is identical.

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@Turkuc_Podjadeq @AugustGraham @EliotHiggins @bellingcat @foodz Many audio editors / DAWs can display spectrograms including free ones like Audacity. Mine are from iZotope RX8. All do the same thing, it’s just a different way of visualising a piece of audio, showing frequency distribution as well as amplitude over time.