18_amb.ogg

[Froge]

This song has really been grinding my gears lately. It sounds like a call between two monsters that love each other. Starting off with a very ghostly owl-like "whoooo" whisper, there is then an echo that sounds like it remotely cares about the first voice because it is just as creepy, with a strangely high-pitched note in its reply. The ghostly whisper sounds again, but the second echo that ends off the song seems to go "whoo....WHEEEEEE", as if it was trying to start off creepy, but then it just doesn't give a damn about the first whisper anymore and dumps him / her.

How were these sounds generated?

Also, for the longest time I couldn't differentiate between 02_amb_safe.ogg and 10_amb.ogg because they have similar strings. The former seems a bit darker, as if it was the ominous premonition of such hellish terror, while the latter feels disturbingly sad.

[Zaffre]

two monsters that love each other

INB4 FANFIC

On Topic: I think what they did for some of the soundtracks is recycled old ones and mixed them differently. Like you said, the Entrance Hall ambience sounds very similar to the Guest Room ambience, so I think it would make sense. If you listen to 08_amb.ogg and compare it to att_guardian.ogg, parts of it are almost identical. Correct me if I'm wrong, though.

[samueljustice00]

I can't remember the track you're talking about but from the description it sounds like an animal or human recording that has been pitch manipulated, passed through a resonant filter and doused with reverb.

A few years back I got some cool results with a kettle whistling, pitched it down and ran it through a reverb and it sounded like a really odd alien landscape. I mapped it out onto a keyboard so I could "perform" it and I felt like I was on Mars!

[Damascus Rose]

This track reminds me of being in a forest late at night, and hearing wolves howl way off in the distance in front of me, then hearing returned calls from another pack way behind me. Very eery.

[Mehis]

I think you guys mean this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CFJGSjAjDs

That's 03_amb.

Yes, it's very creepy. I never really understood why they used this in such early levels. You could take this as monsters howling or just wind being creepy.
I guess they just pitched some sounds down to make those howling sounds and added some small whistling sounds at the background. Sounds more like yelling children.

[samueljustice00]

Pitch it up and we get the source! Doggies!

https://soundcloud.com/samueljustice/03-amb

[Deep One]

I think he means this.

[Damascus Rose]

No, he means the actual 18_amb.ogg found in redist->music

[Froge]

Ramascus Dose got it right.

[Zaffre]

The Cistern ambience. This, right?