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Re: Screeching Sound of Peeling Tape

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Post by ericyd »

qlm wrote: post #2

"The screeching of peeling tape is a familiar albeit annoying sound." I don't find it annoying, I quite like it. The only time I've experienced "ASMR" was from somebody peeling tape next to me.

Agree, it really depends on the tape for me. Painters tape has quite a nice sound as it's peeled

Re: Screeching Sound of Peeling Tape

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Post by klondike_klive »

ericyd wrote: post #11
qlm wrote: post #2

"The screeching of peeling tape is a familiar albeit annoying sound." I don't find it annoying, I quite like it. The only time I've experienced "ASMR" was from somebody peeling tape next to me.

Agree, it really depends on the tape for me. Painters tape has quite a nice sound as it's peeled

I really like the doppler effect (?) of the sound as the tape gets longer.

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Post by boothby »

klondike_klive wrote: post #12
ericyd wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agree, it really depends on the tape for me. Painters tape has quite a nice sound as it's peeled

I really like the doppler effect (?) of the sound as the tape gets longer.

Not the Doppler effect. The tone gets lower, the wavelength increases, with the increasing length of the resonating body.

Re: Screeching Sound of Peeling Tape

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Post by birdsongs »

OptionOfT wrote: post #7

I remember buying the Scotch Magic Tape, the matte one. I was surprised that it didn't make the sound. Probably because it's a little bit more flexible?

I found "quiet" packing tape recently. I bought it, while highly skeptical, for my last move. It was barely more expensive. I don't recall seeing it before.

Super pleasant, did not make the rip crackle squeal sound at all.

Re: Screeching Sound of Peeling Tape

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Post by dmd »

icosian wrote: post #4

For a long time after my daughter was born, I wasn't sure if she could hear or not. I tried to get her to react / turn her head / wake up to voice, music, claps... Nothing. One day I was taping up a box behind her and I pulled out a length of packing tape. It made that awful screeching noise and she was startled. It was a repeatable result. Her hearing was fine, she was just super chilled about noise in general. I fo…

These days infants' hearing (including my own two childrens') are tested at birth, without them having to participate in the process at all (they can even be asleep)! https://www.audiology.org/consumers-and-patients/children-an...
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