That Funny Headphone Trick Thing Wot Mitch Can Do

hey mitch if you wet the cord and stick it in an electrical outlet youll hear some really funny sounds!!

no point, I already downloaded yr eminem remix!

;)

Oh, who cares?

I once taped a cable to the headphone slot in such a way on my CD player to get this same effect without having to keep fiddling with it constantly..

You can get a similar effect if you have an equalizer on your stereo. Turn all the settings for one speaker side all the way down, then turn the balance all the way to that side and turn off any special settings (wide, surround or whatever).

I believe this is called the OOPS effect (OOPS = Out Of Phase Stereo, IIRC). It's when you combine two stereo channels together and make one of them go out of phase (how this works I can't quite recall, there used to be a really good page on this somewhere on the unterweb but it's vanished), anything that's in the middle of the stereo "stage" or whatever hi-fi bods call it gets cancelled out, leading to only parts of the song you're listening to coming through. It's possible to recreate this effect via software (Goldwave from www.goldwave.com has a "remove vocals" function which basically does the above automatically. Great fun putting mp3s through it - Radiohead's "Paranoid Android" is particularly good as the male choir section is stripped down to just voice, and sounds incredibly eerie).

Im horrible at doing that(mp3,cheap speakers and cheap headphone) if i pút out too much the speaker would start and so couldnt really listen carefully. I got sumthin done wit Hedwig´s Angry Inch, one time i got inly the hiss noise of the song adn in the other the snare got really loud. But the good thing about it all Mitch, is that u reminded of how good it is to listen to music on phones, i had forget it