The Forgotten "Program" That Started My Audio Obsession

[@harkeofficial]

Quick note: I had some unexpected audio issues in this video that I didn’t catch until editing (oh, the irony in a video about audio!). I did my best to fix it in post, but some imperfections remain. Lesson learned-my setup is fixed now, so future videos should sound much better. Thanks for your patience, and I hope you enjoy the nostalgic dive regardless!

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

Windows removed this or reduced it because it had no purpose and with software like Audacity, or Goldwave free or low cost audio editing was available before XP. I have been using an old copy of Goldwave for nearly 20 years now, I never paid for the windows version I cracked it. I did buy there Android version 5 years ago that never worked so I gess they got payed at least as they should.

[@harkeofficial]

@SpectraVision-f5o I played with Linux a looonnngggg time ago. Probably around '05 or '06. I know it's a lot more capable now, but I haven't tried it out since then!

[@dancingfeather2024]

I began making music with sound recorder too. Open start up sound, cut to easily calculated length, insert paste 3x, mix paste same sound reversed and slowed down 25%, etc. Insert paste some more.. I can't imagine I used it for very long before I found good old cool edit 1.6 (non-realtime effects! Woo!), but I do remember at least a few 2 minute long masterpieces!

[@rubynellcotas2981]

10😢Likes

[@theflavourist1985]

Have to say, i also had quite a lot of fun with that back in the days, but to my shame i have to say, i completely forgot about it... thank you so much for reviving that memory.

[@pocketsuke]

Sound recorder is the reason I do what I do now. Full time musician and producer.

[@itspoffy]

I was probably headed there in another life because of recorder as well. Someone brought in a pc to the repair place I worked at and he was using cubase on a rather basic PC. I think it was a pentium 2, 266mhz. He had an input card. I always thought to make music you needed expensive reel to reels, or something extremely expensive DAW. Nope, just a pc, a card, and some cheap software.

[@CrystallineAudio]

guys you might be too young but pocketsuke over here is a piece of internet history

[@yehudalanger]

Same!

[@coolbro6969]

Same

[@coupdsantana206]

It was sound recorder and then "cool edit pro" that got me into music production

[@Nitrxgen]

Broooo this took me back 20 years. Nobody's ever talked about Sound Recorder until now, thank you so much.

[@Noiseheads]

My brother and his friend would capture sound bites from Ace Ventura and turn them into Windows alerts. At shut down, it'd go "Take care now. Bye bye then."

[@harkeofficial]

Memory unlocked!! I remember taking finding all the songs I knew with the word “Stop” in it, and recording just that part, and using it as my windows error sound

[@mromutt]

Reminds me of when I turned some of the sounds on my friends computer into moos haha :) he did not know how to fix it either which made it funnier

[@robypal97]

​@@harkeofficial Stop! by Jane's addiction!!!

[@inPHluxx]

you didn't hurt me nothing can hurt me you didn't hurt me nothing can stop Final seconds of Ruiner by nine inch nails was my shutdown sound for a while.

[@darz_k.]

Ssssssmokin'!!

[@Bkoded]

that microphone is actually kind of a hidden gem for guitar recording wow, like actually sounds like a record

[@altrogeruvah]

Me and my neighbors' kids spent (literally) our entire childhood recording funny phrases, reversing them, learning how to pronounce the reversed version by heart, reversing them once again and dying of laughter while listening to these. Never thought I would be nostalgic over Windows 95's Sound Recorder, but yeah...

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

I had more fun with text to voice XP app, I had audio editing software from year 2000 that was 1000x more powerful then this windows recordeder.

[@EHLOVader]

Came here to see if there were comments about this. Totally made this a game to try and repeat reversed phrases or words and reverse them to try and get them exact

[@QVAZzzz]

I got REALLY GOOD at speaking entire sentences phonetically backwards. My little sister was always playing with this and I would speak "gibberish" and she'd try to guess what it was before playing it in reverse. Actually could clearly understand all the words, but in that weird reversed cadence. Was literally like playing a record backward. Longest thing was like "Hello Ramsey, this is your brother speaking to you backwards, can you understand me? How about now?" 😂😂

[@anMechSea]

ooh I can explain the feedback! the microphone, speakers, and even the room you're in have a frequency response curve. Additionally the room seems minimally treated so you're also getting the natural reverb. Each time you re-record exaggerates those "imperfections." It's quite literally just more controlled feedback (which got its name because you're feeding the audio back into the signal chain). The sound art piece "I am sitting in a room" by Alvin Lucier takes advantage of the concept to turn a narration into an ambient drone.

[@harkeofficial]

@@anMechSea oooo thanks for the explanation!!

[@rustymixer2886]

Because you can digitize your music like pros

[@andrive]

W

[@JasonNaas]

Ooh, I have always been fascinated by I Am Sitting In A Room. It was the first thing I thought of when I heard that feedback.

[@bearb1asting]

Spent a lot of time in sound recorder​@@harkeofficial

[@root8272]

Unique content. The crossover between retro tech and music performance here is something you don't see anywhere. Thanks for that.

[@harkeofficial]

Thank you so much! As a kid, I kind of got into everything all at once, and have been making videos and music for over 20 years... but it took me until 2024 to finally commit and start a "real" KZbin journey. One day, maybe I will make a side episode to show off some of the cringy early 2000s stuff that I've kept on my hard drive all this time 😅

[@billgates3699]

You’re sure about that? I mean…you’re really certain this isn’t common?

[@discocat2500]

My buddy and I released a twelve track CD called "The Spam Hour" as kids to our friends that was like a radio talk show recorded completely with Sound Recorder. Thank you for reminding me of that ha. Great video!

[@TotallyNotCalledEvan]

This channel is a gem

[@harkeofficial]

thank you so much!

[@integerofdoom69]

I've been finding a lot of these lately. Bloody awesome.

[@mhavock]

This was funny and its amazing you did all this stuff with it. I barely touched it.

[@AnthonyAnthony-tk4ye]

Her adorable little smile is a gem…..😁😁☺️😉

[@RitualFlip]

@@AnthonyAnthony-tk4yecreep

[@danielrfry]

A guitar-based tribute to Windows Sound Recorder is something I was not expecting to be stuck in my head today! A very engaging demo of such an unassuming app - thanks.

[@Kraaketaer]

It's so fascinating how your videos somehow manage to bring back very clear and distinct memories of being a kid and playing around with this stuff. Clearly they're hitting the right notes in the right way. I've said it before, but thank you for making these videos, and please keep doing what you're doing!

[@harkeofficial]

Thank you so much! This means a lot!

[@RealMacJones]

This channel is going to blow up

[@eraeusboorwel]

My friend and I made a full album in a day back in 2004ish. We bypassed the minute limit by recording a clip and then slowing it down a few times and then recording over that. I think the album is still on Internet Archive somewhere. It's "The July Sessions" by our "band" called "The Fragment".

[@DukeManus]

I found it. I've tried to copy the link but I don't see the comment anymore, yt auto-delete it. Anyways on Internet Archive if you search ''The Fragment - The July Sessions'' it only shows 18 results so it is not hard to find. Also I listened to it and the songs, the radio bits and skits are literal gold from another era.

[@pauljs75]

@@DukeManus Oddly using the archive site's own search didn't work for some reason. But it comes up as being there if using Duckduckgo. 🤷‍♂

[@mainecrab]

I cannot find it on the archive

[@mainecrab]

Never mind found it

[@rollinupeverest5042]

Ugg tied to find it but kept getting pron results😢​@@DukeManus

[@PlainlyDifficult]

This brings back memories!!

[@peppercat-_-]

I'm so glad to see this being talked about. This is exactly how I got started multitrack recording. My method was this: I made a 6 min blank file by recording 30 sec of silence (i seem to remember mine being limited to 30 sec but i might be misremembering), opened a new file and put the cursor at the end and mixed in the first 30 sec. The "mix" feature would go from wherever your cursor was so it didn't have to be at the beginning. Once I had the 6 min blank; I would open that file every time I wanted to start a new song. I downloaded a free drum machine software and, using a 9$ dynamic microphone I got from wal-mart - into a 1/4 inch to 1/8 inch adapter and into the mic input, I recorded a playback of the drums by holding the mic to the computer speaker and playing the drum track and recording on sound recorder simultaneously. Then i would take the recorded drum track - open a new blank 6 min file - and hit 'record' on the blank file with my mouse and 'play' on the drum track with my space bar and the same time (or close). I'd record a guitar or something on the new track then have to kinda guess where to put the cursor to mix the files together. If I was way off, I would undo and adjust the cursor slightly and try again. This would often lead to parts being slightly askew from each other. I made several full albums of songs with drums/guitar/bass/ and vocals like this..... I honestly thought I was the only person who did this crap ahaha. It's amazing to see that so many more people were innovating right along with me.

[@NickLavic]

I loved Sound Recorder. I remember using it to create an audio interview of Alvin from The Chipmunks where I played the role of both Alvin and the interviewer. Fun times.

[@notreally-sf3df]

See, things like that are of huge impact. I remember doing something similar, which led to "oh so you're a big fan of Alvin and the Chipmunks?"; no, i just had an idea that was feasible to execute, haha. Early stages to realizing how people sometimes confuse a curious mind for an obsession with a thing that already exists.

[@The-SM7B-Guy]

Very nostalgic indeed :) Cool video, thanks! Just a little nerdy detail, but I loved the transition from the camera audio to the Sound Recorder at 8:46 :)

[@bentbilliard]

That's exactly how I recorded my first song back in the days. I even still have it and listen to it from time to time.

[@bentbilliard]

Also, this guitar sounds amazing.

[@sews1523]

it could be cool if you post it

[@santosolivar3373]

Yess​@@sews1523

[@ugagnskraake]

I remember being entertained for hours just saying things backwards onto a recording and reversing it in Sound Recorder, or pitching my voice up or down. Those were simpler times.

[@harkeofficial]

I miss those days 🥹

[@integerofdoom69]

The amount of jank audio editing I did in that this is astounding.

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

I call the whole recording in reverse + playing it back in reverse again "Moosh Noosh". 💪😎✌️ Looonnng story why. But it's a groovily hysterical party game, and I have some of the absolute fondest memories of doing that with an ex-gf of mine. 😂 On some nights, we didn't NEED any additional abdominal workouts, lmao. #CyuarfSchnarrff!

[@TheUrbanSpacemanProject]

Oh yeah, I still have recordings of me saying doog si nataS that I reversed.

[@XeonX__ASMR__METAL-experiments]

Yeah! I remember 🎉 Thank You ❤ ... ❤ I wish love and happiness to everyone ❤

[@jkdeadite]

Playing with your voice will always be fun for kids! I remember Sound Recorder on our Windows 95 PC, but also the Yak Bak toy. Today, my nieces love this little cactus toy that just listens and plays back their voices faster. Classic!

[@harkeofficial]

That is so true… my kids have these little bird toys that repeat what you say but a bit faster and higher, and we’ve had them for YEARS and they still get played with!

[@DzikiWaclaw]

​@@harkeofficialyou are probably the coolest mom on the planet!

[@real1000AM]

This program and a raisin mic from RadioShack was how I recorded all of the first songs I ever made. I still remember having to line up vocals manually when you needed to copy parts for choruses. What simple time that was.

[@redacted2763]

Thumbs up for SPATULA CITY!!! :)

[@harkeofficial]

🫡

[@Brux-_-304]

I liked their spatulas so much… I bought the company

[@tomwilson2112]

We sell spatulas…. And that’s all.

[@nclsrfn]

subscribed for that alone.

[@RandallJennings]

Buy nine spatulas and get the tenth one for just one penny!

[@caseyholford]

I didn’t grow up in a Microsoft household - but I was totally the kid doing “multitracking” with one boombox facing another boombox, as you said! Love that there was a digital version of this. I think doing these workarounds taught me a different way of thinking creatively about audio production that I still use today. Also it’s just fun! Thanks for the awesome video.

[@MrSlipstreem]

OMG! You've just reminded me that I used to use Sound Recorder to record my own samples to use in Impulse Tracker. Happy days! 😄

[@Diafragmates]

the editing is top tier haha! how did you made your windows XP avatar's audio quality have that distinct sound? is that also recorded inside XP?

[@lewiji]

The hard drive vs ram speed thing is still relevant today, even with our super fast solid state tech! Most programs still operate this way, and for super high performance tasks (such as simulation games) programs will even be optimised around structuring data so that it can be kept in the tiny CPU cache (which is even faster than RAM, due to proximity)

[@androxilogin]

Soo many memories I set aside until just seeing sound recorder in the thumbnail. I started out with Windows 3.1 and dug through every single option it had to offer. I've also done every single trick you have mentioned in this video, even the guitar layering trick! I had one of those cheap desktop mics (I called it a 'stick mic') and I used to throw it inside of my acoustic for better sound. Interestingly, it sounded pretty great for at-home audio quality standards back then. I appreciate this nostalgia trip. I forgot all about having to save and then load to continue recording for more than 60 seconds. Sound recorder was some pretty serious business back then in my wee mind.

[@klctht6606]

Oh my god I instantly clicked when yt recommended this. I had so much fun "remixing" songs with this on my family's XP computer as a kid! I think it smoothed my DAW learning curve a lot.

[@David_prod-eNGee]

Oh man, this video is blowing my mind. Years... YEARS ago I was playing around with Sound Recorder with my older brother, and he recorded "When we met, we played marbles," talking about our friends that we made at a trailer park that we would go to during the summers. Then we reversed it and it sounded like it said, "Sir Brown help me, stab me now." We loved how creepy it sounded. It's just wild how that little memory still stays with me, sent me down the music production rabbit hole, and encapsules both precious memories of meeting my friends at the trailer, and recording our voices with my brother. Yet I'd forgotten all about sound recorder until now.

[@jaymo1011]

finally, someone gave sound recorder the recognition it deserves

[@apatsa_basiteni]

Love the editing style 🥹 Too much nostalgia.

[@Thiesi]

1:04 - Holy frell, what a cool book you got there!

[@harkeofficial]

Oh my goodness YOU NOTICED MY COOL BOOK?!!!!

[@Thiesi]

@harkeofficial Wait - wasn't the video _about_ the cool book? 🤔

[@harkeofficial]

I’m thinking about doing a video where I just read the whole book in one sitting out loud. Everyone will love it!

[@Thiesi]

@@harkeofficial I promise I'd watch that on repeat for _at least_ five minutes straight!

[@tipcentric]

This was a really fun video and brought back some much needed sound recorder nostalgia! thx :)

[@Guilherme36594]

As a 90s kid, yes, i remember this program. Pure nostalgia!

[@scrambled_greg]

This program defined my adolescence. Finally someone gives it the attention it deserves. Bravo.

[@Rambling-Thomas]

Fond memories of saying the lyrics of Another One Bites the Dust in Sound Recorder and then listening to the backwards "secret message".

[@harkeofficial]

I’m so mad I forgot about that one for the video!!

[@bartoscar]

Sfun to scout mare wanna 😆

[@danieldaniels7571]

Did it make you a pothead?

[@Garpocalypse]

I don't know how but i spent dozens of hours messing around with sound recorder back in the day and completely forgot all about it until i saw your thumbnail. that 60 second limit was brutal.

[@Torzelan]

Had so much fun with Sound Recorder as a kid. Standout memories are: 1. Making silly new sound effects & voices for the original Doom (explosions replaces with keys dropped on a table sounding like shattering glass, and enemies merrily exclaiming "oh no I died!"). 2. Recording short songs about absolutely anything (usually about as mature as you expect from young teenage boys) with just an acoustic guitar and bunch of us "singing". 3. Hearing the cool music from Lords of the Realm 2 at a friend's house, wanting to bring it home on a floppy but the file was too large - no problem, speed it up in Sound Recorder, tadaa half size! Just slow it down home again. Sure, quality took a hit but I just wanted to hear the song, sure beat not having it at all.

[@jeremybutcher6418]

That multi track bit. Proud of your childhood ingenuity. Doing that stuff was too much fun!

[@defenestr8now]

it is so crazy to see this excellent video with so much love and effort put into it.. and then three patrons at the end 😭 i hope your channel takes off

[@harkeofficial]

haha thank you!

[@punktilend]

I'm an Audio Engineer who began his career learning how to record with Sound Recorder. It is a relic. I'm actually teaching my 10 year old the simple little fun things we all began our careers doing. Revisiting all this has been nothing but amazing. I appreciate that there were others and still are teaching those little fun audio nerd tricks. Keep on creating.

[@harkeofficial]

I’m so glad to hear you’re passing on the knowledge- I’m doing the same over here with my own kids, and they really enjoy playing with all of it! 😄

[@itscassette]

This channel is one of the coolest things the algo has thrown my way, loving this and the nostalgia is AMAZING! Subbed

[@GeekFilter]

I literally almost dropped my phone when I heard spatula city! For many years my brother and I would exchange spatulas for Christmas, based on the fake commercial from UHF! “Don’t forget, they make great Christmas presents!”

[@harkeofficial]

Buy nine spatulas... get the tenth one for just one penny!

[@GeekFilter]

@@harkeofficial more than once those spatulas came in handy! I still have one in my kitchen to this day.

[@mattgoodtube]

Oh man, loved the cover of Daisy, very clever. This is totally my era, but I had a 4-track tape recorder before I eventually got Cakewalk Sonar (ooooooo yeaaaah). What a time to be alive. Love your videos, they're fun as heck.

[@tugayturkylmaz2200]

Your channel is awesome!

[@harkeofficial]

Thank you so much!

[@DarkTrailsExplorer]

Memory unlocked! Also used an actual cassette recorder with semi-pressrd "pause" button. This tricked made the tape go twice as fast, and if you recors your voice in this manner, you get monster voice when played back normally :)

[@bigol9223]

Yep

[@Tur713]

The "woah" as you're falling off the Sound Recorder window is so funny!

[@harkeofficial]

Thank you! It was a long fall, but I'm okay :)

[@Agret]

@@harkeofficial You still never answered how you got up there in the first place though, did you climb the start menu before someone closed it? haha

[@WMCloseProtection85]

Super nostalgia trip! XP was definitely the last decent OS lol. Cant wait for more of your creativity, so glad I came across your channel... thanks for you content! 90s were just the best 😅

[@TheSecretProvider]

This takes me back so much. I remember using this to record some of my earliest "songs" and eventually started recording fake radio shows with multiple guests and segments in it. Wish I preserved them! Don't delete your cringey stuff y'all. You'll appreciate it at some point.

[@hedalapapa]

what you do here on this channel is so epic! i subbed in a heatbeat!

[@WolfmanBrown]

5:36 She liked their spatulas so much, she bought the company.

[@beowulf1417]

WOAH! Memory unlocked! So many hours spent messing around with Sound Recorder and various songs and sound bites!

[@stevetkay]

Vivid memories flooding back of me recording Metallica riffs on Sound Recorder like a true guitar rookie.

[@itxofficial8281]

THANK YOU for giving the Sound Recorder the credit it so deserves!! It used to be my go-to boredom killer when I was a teenager. I still got all my recordings from back then, highlight was a burp I slowed down beyond recognition 😅

[@yornav]

4:26 That sounds exactly like that annoying and notorious AI voice in TikTok video's....🤣🤣

[@animetoast13]

I love the "little" toaster reference you made at the beginning, it made me smile 😊

[@MichalKobuszewski]

With each new video I can hardly believe this channel could get even more awesome! The soundcard I played with the Sound Recorder on offered (besides the mic and line in) a "mixdown" input, allowing you to capture whatever was playing in full quality, which made it so much simpler to add layers to the sound. Your method is very creative though.

[@henrikpetersson3463]

I was doing multitrack recordings on the computer back in the 90s. There were professional sound editing tools and interfaces back then for sure. I mostly used Samplitude, starting on the Amiga and then later on Windows. Very limited in terms of functionality compared to what we have today, but the basics were there.

[@r.garrettm6516]

Oh I absolutely spent countless hours as a little computer geek in the 90's and early 2000's messing with Sound Recorder exactly the way you lay out here. Speeding, slowing, and reversing anything I could think of. This was also the go to tool I used for voicing my flash animation cartoons and even attempting foley with (it was not good). Fantastic video, subbed :)

[@taaktuuq]

Glad this channel got recommended, I enjoy your vibes.

[@excessofficialTV]

Great memories ! the multi tracks experiment ... ;) You've got a really nice voice by the way !

[@stopthink9000]

This is the coolest thing on the Internet. Nice job on that song! Amazing how good it was just with 90's basic software and a single mic!

[@bizzlemedia]

yes yes YES!! I've just melted into a big puddle of nostalgia. Around age 10 in 2002 I inherited my Dad's old work computer which was on it's last legs. No internet obviously and most games wouldn't work on it. It ran windows millenium edition. I had SO much fun in sound recorder. I did all of the experiments you showed in the video. As an adult, I went on to study audio production and now I'm a radio producer at Britain's national broadcaster. I get paid as an adult to mess around with sound, using tools that still look a little bit like Sound Recorder. I think my ability to mess around and be in a state of 'play' with audio manipulation tools has stood me in fantastic stead, both spiritually and professionally.

[@prestonmno4180]

For the love of god get this shit trending, what the production quality. "Hey Great Job!"

[@Tfor2show]

The thumbnail with the typical KZbin "omugosh!" pose almost made me skip over this recommended video in my feed (I get it, the algorithm likes those sorts of thumbnails - no hard feelings!), but MAN am I glad I clicked on it anyway! What a nostalgic dive this was! I used to play with Sound Recorder ALL THE TIME, and I still have a few dusty old audio files that I made with it back in the 90's and early-00's. But at some point it became quite the recessed memory, and I'm not sure I ever would have thought of it again had I not stumbled upon this terrific video. But besides all that, I'm a big fan of fun/quirky production quality, so of course I LOVE the way you have those little low-res-gif looking animations of yourself in the videos to introduce different segments, like at 6:57. So much fun! Overall this video was funny, informative, silly, and well-produced. Thanks for doing this! EDIT: Holy shit... I wrote this comment before I finished the video. And then I saw the part where you recorded the song you wrote about Song Recorder... and recorded on Sound Recorder! That was awesome!! Can we download that anywhere?

[@positronalpha]

Forgotten is the word. Screenshot took me right back. Thank you for the nostalgia!

[@elgiad007]

Sound recording was my first foray into playing around with sound recording back in the Windows 95 days. I took it a step further and transferred my recordings to cassette tape so I could listen on the boombox in my room. Loved the video!

[@kmarkusaurelius]

I just discovered your channel earlier today, and it's already becoming one of my favorites. I used to make songs on Sound Recorder, too, using a flimsy little mic that came with my family's Gateway computer. Even though the songs were absolute trash, it was still super fun. :) I live and breathe music and retro tech, so I'm super stoked to have found a cool place where these two worlds collide!

[@jonyoungmusic]

This launched my entire rap career. Went from Sound Recorder around 1997 to Voyetra Wavestation and then Sound Forge + Acid Pro. With sound recorder I mainly would just take clips from songs and loop them to make my own instrumentals to rap on. Then when I started using Sound Forge I would mix paste everything together to make beats and mix in my vocals. I would lay a microphone on a Casio keyboard to record the notes and drum sounds into my computer then trim, cut, & paste to make melodies and control tempo. I think I still used Sound Recorder to be able to play the beat from Sound Forge and record my vocals into Sound Recorder. Then open the sound recorder recording into Sound Forge to bring in the vocals.

[@loficampingguy9664]

Only had time to just start watching, but this is already a so fun watch and I'm totally finishing it! All your visuals are super fun additions to see

[@atmaillumina]

A blast from the past. I used to email secret messages to my pen pals using this. Ahh man I really spent many hours playing around with OG Sound Recorder! Thanks for making this!

[@gutsman85_86]

I got in my feels when you listed, "Reminds me of my first recordings". I still have some of my "multi-track" songs that I recorded on WindowsME, a TERRIBLE operating system(!), but one that sparked creativity and a passion to keep doing it 20yrs later. Thanks for the reminder that this existed and... may still be a viable tool for music recording. I'm gonna go download Sound Recorder now!

[@plscks]

This was a fantastic video, nice and nostalgic! Well done and thank you for creating it!

[@thecooldrawingguy]

This video is so great, I loveddd Sound Recorder! I would slow the audio down a lot and then speed it back up to normal speed to get the bitcrushed, compressed sound intentionally. I always thought that distortion was so cool!! I loved recording fake conversations and sound effects in there as a kid, it’s so great to see that someone loved this software so much growing up too and can still see the magic of its simplicity even now. Thank you for this video!!

[@Dojan5]

The editing in this video is amazing. This brings me right back to childhood.

[@InaiahLujanMusic]

This brought back some many great memories. Definitely used it in a similar fashion, it inspired so much creativity as it was so inconvenient to multitrack but that certainly didn’t stop me from trying. Great video!

[@8bitvelociraptor]

Top-notch video. I really enjoyed the low framerate animations (and the songs!)

[@SilviteWingnut]

I remember playing around with this program a lot. Trying to pronounce words backwards was fun, and can't forget the cool effect of reversing your speech, adding echo, and then un-reversing it to give it a ghostly pre-echo effect. Good ol' Sound Recorder.

[@MisterJWJ71]

Good video and a cool Buddy Holly riff at the end! Not something you'd normally expect to hear from someone so young.

[@RayDeLaCroix]

I really enjoyed this video. You took me back to 2001-2005 when I used to play with this sound recorder. I still have some very funny recordings stored on some CD-Rs or DVD-Rs somewhere.

[@xullbryn]

i'm only eighteen, but i love watching your channel! the technology back then seemed more mysterious and fun, i kinda envy it now when everything is at your fingertips. it has lost that childlike wonder and i'm a bit sad i couldn't experience it too.

[@caseystead8082]

Oh wow. You seriously unlocked some memories with this one! I forgot how much I played around with this.

[@Yananna-wav]

This program definitely started my audio obsession. Thank you for dedicating a video to it :')

[@magicspiral]

When I was a teen in the early 2000’s I was given a secondhand computer for my bedroom that hardly ran Windows 95. It came with one of those cheap gooseneck mics. Being able to record anything digitally was a fascinating novelty. I discovered some neat tricks you could do with the audio recorder, I showed my friends and we spent countless hours learning how to say naughty phrases backwards. Then recording ourselves saying those phrases the best we could backwards and laughing at the cartoony results. We did many obscene experiments with pitch, sound stacking and choppy editing. I compiled the audio clips and turned them into a song called “Art Mrs. Balls” on an early album of mine. I’m happy to say that those recordings still exist - digital clipping, artifacting and all.

[@deeorlando6536]

What a neat video. You triggered so many memories of me and my friends screwing around on basic pc and crappy computer mic. So much fun... Fast forward a few years and I now work professionally in post production working with video editors and audio engineers on a daily basis, kind of wild when you think about it... This was totally my first intro into digital audio recording and editing.

[@LuisPabloKuz]

En Oberá, Misiones, Argentina, fuimos la primera emisora de radio en tener computadora y un sistema de automatización radial que se ejecutaba en Windows 3.1 en 1996. Todo era super tecnológico en su momento. Trabajábamos con programas que hoy ya no existen ni en Google. =( Me encantó tu video. Gracias.

[@DrunkenPeasants]

I had tons of fun with sound recorder back in the day.

[@ZackarySmigel]

Just found your channel, its so cool and creative! Wow. Great stuff!!!

[@harkeofficial]

Thank you so much! I’m having fun with it so far! 😆

[@notreally-sf3df]

Amazing video. The high speed version obsession is what led to to bring out the calculator for the first time when recording, to calculate slower versions which would sound better pitched up. I still do that to this day, huge impact. I've had "hits" the last few years where a weird idea for a switchup worked because I calculated out a new pitch/bpm for the part the same way i did it on windows 3.1. The best message to take away from videos like these is that the weird things you had to do to figure things out are still very applicable to modern technology because they allow you to make things work in a very creative way. First used it to record our own sped up voices for Worms voicelines, we spent 2 hours recording every single line, then realized that the length actually shortens, so they were all unusable 0.5s snippet, spoken way too fast. I still remember the 3 extra hours we spent re-recording everything slower and I think that was one of the first examples of me ever re-doing something to make it sound vaguely professional, which is something I do to this day all the time. Just being able to actually do something, no matter how bad it sounded was a huge unlocking process for a lot of us, I think!

[@davidal00]

Thank you for the trip down memory lane! Wish I still had all my old recordings.

[@LSib32]

I dint remember this app until I noticed this thumbnail, but OMG, I spent dozens of hours figuring out the tricks you cover here.... good times indeed

[@rgbmew]

this video got me hooked and im binging your entire channel now. your writing is fantastic

[@IanDeVos]

Oh this takes me back to my childhood! Back when computer magazines still existed and came with CD's filled of program demos. I made techno songs by stacking and appending samples I found of a musicmaker type program my PC could not run. But I had fun with this... And how many times I recorded myself saying stuff backwards and then reversing that... Or adding echo's after reversing it and then reversing it again... Thanks for the nostalgia!

[@MisterChrista]

This was so nostalgic and enjoyable. Such wholesome fun too. I am now a subscriber.

[@TheCentreforComputingHistory]

A great look back on an overlooked application. Cool, classic style and creative editing! Enjoyed that! -LW

[@dnte_ole]

Yes! Brings back so many memories. Sound recorder + PowerPoint '97 = hours of fun!

[@rankka_music]

Haha I had the exact same experience with it as you did that's so awesome! I even recorded layers the same way too and used to sample all kinds of things with it when I was a kid. Currently a full time producer :)

[@muzboz]

We used to do backwards Twin Peaks lines. "I'm in the Black Lodge". You'd record it, reverse it, learn it, ... then record the backwards version, then reverse that for the final "backwards talking".