Hello, Horny Readers! I love to record erotic audio, as most of you know. I wish I had time to record more; they take a deceptive amount of time and effort to complete (not that the results aren’t worth it). I’ve recently found out about a form of erotic audio that I want to try, but I’d like your input first. It’s called Whisper Audio, and it’s a form of ASMR.
ASMR stands for Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response. No doubt some of you have already heard of it. A cursory search of the LDW archives showed Me that Miss Simone has! Apparently, people have been talking about it online for at least a decade, and the acronym was coined around 2010.
I’m a bit embarrassed to be so behind the times! Are you as well? Allow Me to elaborate!
Erotic audio? I’m in! But what is ASMR?
Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response describes the phenomenon of a particular response to certain acoustic, digital, and/or visual stimuli.
- Autonomous – spontaneous, self-governing, within or without control
- Sensory – pertaining to the senses or sensation
- Meridian – signifying a peak, climax, or point of highest development
- Response – referring to an experience triggered by something external or internal
When exposed to stimuli, a segment of the population experiences a tingling sensation that starts on the scalp and moves down the cervical spine to the upper thoracic, along with feelings of euphoria, well-being, and relaxation.
Some experience arousal.
There’s a wide range of effective stimuli, depending on the person. Here are some examples:
- A non-vocal, ambient, and repetitive noise like the sound of an old-fashioned ink pen scratching across paper
- Personal and selfless physical care, like a massage or a pedicure accompanied by soothing words
- Watching another person complete an otherwise mundane task, like cooking or ironing, especially if it’s done meticulously and methodically.
But whispering, in fact, triggers the most people. I read about a study in which 75% of the participants responded to it, a greater number than responded to any other.
Where does the erotic audio part come in?
Remember when I said that a certain segment of the population experiences arousal as part of their ASMR response?
When people first came together to share their experiences with ASMR, some suggested that the term “head orgasm” should be used to describe it. Others objected to the sexual connotation since the experience wasn’t sexual for everyone. Needless to say, they won out.
Never fear! ASMR erotic audio is here!
Those who didn’t think a sexual connotation to ASMR was anything to sneeze at branched off and created ASMRotica, or ASMR Erotica. The most popular stimuli in this subcategory is–you guessed it–whispering.
The point is, I’m intrigued by this concept. I’m curious about its potential Femdom applications. I’m thinking about making some audios using the whisper technique. I’ve supplied a sample of what I’m talking about below, and I’m curious to know what, if anything, you experience while listening.
I’m going to start with a popular kink–orgasm control. My thinking is, a popular subject will minimize the number of listeners who might be distracted from the overall experience because they’re listening to subject matter they aren’t into.
I think it would be ideal if you listened to the audio without touching yourself so that you can observe and report what your response is without any other stimulus. You could, if you’re feeling ambitious, listen to it twice: once while masturbating, and once not. I suggest not, the first time.
After you listen, I’d love to know your thoughts on the questions I pose below. Feel free to reply to the comments, or via E-mail if you prefer.
Please be honest with your replies. I promise I won’t take anything personally!
1.) What, if anything, did you physically, psychologically, emotionally, or sexually experience while listening to this audio? Your reply to this question doesn’t depend on having a definitive answer to questions 2 or 3.
2.) Were you aware of ASMR before reading this blog post?
3.) If you answered “yes” to #2, have you known yourself to be susceptible to ASMR in the past?
4.) If you answered “yes” to #3, what were the stimuli that triggered the response?
5.) Is the subject matter among your kinky interests?
6.) Did you masturbate while listening?
7.) If you did masturbate, did listening while doing so change the experience in any way from other times you’ve stroked your cock? If so, in what way?
8.) If I were to record more of this type of erotic audio, would you be interested?
9.) Do you think the addition of music or some other harmonious, meditative sound in the background, or interspersed with the whispers, would enhance the audio, or detract from it?
10.) If your interests tend to be more hardcore, do you think this type of audio would still work?
11.) Conversely, do you think you would enjoy the audio more if the language, not the tone in which it was delivered, was softer/more sensual/more encouraging, as in a simple guided masturbation session?
Okay now, sit back, relax, get comfortable (preferably with headphones on) and press play!
Thanks for your help,
Miss Rachel, Your Erotic Audio Explorer!
1-800-356-6169
1.) What, if anything, did you physically, psychologically, emotionally, or sexually experience while listening to this audio? Your reply to this question doesn’t depend on having a definitive answer to questions 2 or 3.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> piloerection of the skin behind my ear, down my neck, as you kept whispering down my arms……. nips
2.) Were you aware of ASMR before reading this blog post? >> yes
3.) If you answered “yes” to #2, have you known yourself to be susceptible to ASMR in the past? >> yes
4.) If you answered “yes” to #3, what were the stimuli that triggered the response? > Whispering, vivid auditory descriptions of sexy things
5.) Is the subject matter among your kinky interests? > In a sense, yes.
6.) Did you masturbate while listening?> No
7.) If you did masturbate, did listening while doing so change the experience in any way from other times you’ve stroked your cock? If so, in what way? >No
8.) If I were to record more of this type of erotic audio, would you be interested?
9.) Do you think the addition of music or some other harmonious, meditative sound in the background, or interspersed with the whispers, would enhance the audio, or detract from it?
>>> I think the background music (et al) would have to be very soft, and able to fill spaces between your words, and would be very enchanting!
10.) If your interests tend to be more hardcore, do you think this type of audio would still work?
> I love it, want to start playing with it on calls too!
Thank you Ms R, I’m going to play with this myself! You are freaking awesome!!
OMG Miss Erika! What a treat and a pleasure to have one of My fellow Mistresses listen and take the survey for Me! Thank you so much!
Okay – the questions.
1.) What, if anything, did you physically, psychologically, emotionally, or sexually experience while listening to this audio? Your reply to this question doesn’t depend on having a definitive answer to questions 2 or 3.
The background noise made it impossible for me to get the intended benefit.
2.) Were you aware of ASMR before reading this blog post?
Yes
3.) If you answered “yes” to #2, have you known yourself to be susceptible to ASMR in the past?
Sometimes
4.) If you answered “yes” to #3, what were the stimuli that triggered the response?
A) The background music and voice echo effect on Cooper’s audio “Right to the Edge”
B) The background pulse on a non-LDW hypnosis audio called “Venus Fly Trap”
5.) Is the subject matter among your kinky interests?
Kinky interests? Well I am not into it for the sake of it but I do enjoy it when it compliments an audio topic that is a kinky interest.
6.) Did you masturbate while listening?
No
7.) If you did masturbate, did listening while doing so change the experience in any way from other times you’ve stroked your cock? If so, in what way?
Honestly I almost never masturbate while listening to an audio, masturbating distracts me from her voice. Usually when I masturbate to an audio it is after the audio as I replay it in my mind.
8.) If I were to record more of this type of erotic audio, would you be interested?
Possibly
9.) Do you think the addition of music or some other harmonious, meditative sound in the background, or interspersed with the whispers, would enhance the audio, or detract from it?
Enhance. This is me being honest about this one, the background in this one sounded like the kind of noise I don’t like in audios, and distracted me from the whispering voice. Please understand I have some issues that make me different than most people, it’s a result of my asperger. Auditory stimuli is a very sensitive issue for me, I can’t deal with surround sound in theatres etc.
In this audio, what it sounded like was the noise floor was too high – and that may be exactly what it is, if you recorded whispering and the gain was set for normal voice then there’s a not a lot of dynamic range so what happens is when the volume is peak normalized, then everything including the noise floor is amplified – and the sound of the noise floor is something that irritates me so much that on some audios I bought I had to edit them and reduce the noise manually before I could enjoy them.
If the noise behind your whispering was intentional, then for me it doesn’t work (recording a natural waterfall would be wonderful background noise for me) but it might work for others. I’m atypical. I prefer something soothing as background noise, like the background music on the Cooper audio I mentioned.
10.) If your interests tend to be more hardcore, do you think this type of audio would still work?
For me, ASMR is best when I am feeling stressed and I am looking for something to stimulate a relaxation of my muscles, to put me in a trance like state.
11.) Conversely, do you think you would enjoy the audio more if the language, not the tone in which it was delivered, was softer/more sensual/more encouraging, as in a simple guided masturbation session?
I don’t know. The background noise floor didn’t let me properly evaluate it.
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I can never get the audios on LDW blogs to “just work” without trickery.
When I “view source” on the blog, to see the html before any JS has modified it, I can get the the audio from the html and download it manually with curl and the HTML looks correct like it should work – but if I “inspect element” to see the HTML after the JS on the page has run – it looks like some JavaScript on the the page modifies the html5 audio element and does something funky, I suspect that maybe the JavaScript is depending upon a resource being blocked by my privacy software and thus can’t finish what it started. I can show you a screenshot if you would like. Happens on every LDW blog. I suspect it is theme related. I just simply can’t listen to the audios on them.
Audios on TeaseMania work, but those are just links and no JS messes with them. Again I think it might be privacy badger but I’m not turning that off, too many trackers.
But I did manage to get it and listened.
Thanks for your feedback on the background noise, Alice! I notice and have noticed that when listening to this audio back as well as others. Trying to figure out how to eliminate it has extended the time on delivery of some custom audios I’ve done, and I think you’ve isolated why. I did “normalize” the audio, when the initial recording levels were too high. I thought especially with a whisper track, it would be distracting, since it distracted Me. It’s something I’ll continue to work on.
I’m going to geek out.
There’s basically three kinds of background noise – electrical (bad connection or ground loop hum), quantization noise, and what I call “organic noise”
Organic noise is noise that is present because it was there when recorded – things like computer fans, window blowing, HVAC system, etc. – hard to completely eliminate without a professional sound studio.
Quantization noise is because sound is analog, there are literally an infinite number of values a sample can have but when recorded it is digitized, finite number of samples so the analog value has to be rounded (qunatized) – quantization noise sounds like tape hiss if you remember cassette tapes.
It is always present in digital recordings but can be below the hearing threshold if recording to 32-bit float, the gain is set so that the waveform peaks to somewhere between 60% and 90% of maximum (it clips if it exceeds maximum), all mastering is done in 32-bit float, including the peak normalizing, and it is only exported to 16-bit integer when finished mastering.
Peak normalizing amplifies the quantization noise which may be what happened here but if recording in 32-bit float with gain set so the wave forms while recording exceed 60% of maximum then even the amplified quantization noise is still below the hearing threshold.
I don’t know that’s what happened here but it might be. Your other audios I have listened to have not had as much noise so I think maybe it was.
/geek
LOL Well I’m glad you got that out of your system! I’m a geek about some things Myself, but technology isn’t one of them, so I didn’t understand a lot of that and don’t know if I want to take the effort to try, though I do appreciate the effort! Suffice it to say I think I did absorb one thing from the information you’ve provided that will help, so thank you for that!
Basically an analog sound is turned into rounded digital samples, which when played back are turned back into an analog sound. The difference between the analog sound played back and recorded is the quantization noise.
Quantization error can be explained using cocks 😛
If you measure a cock with a measuring tape that only has inches, your measurement could be up to half an inch off of the actual size.
If you measure the same cock with a measuring that has 1/16 of an inch, you measurement could be up to 1/8 if an inch off the actual size. Much closer to the actual size.
Recording to 32-bit float means the measurement of each audio sample is a lot more precise.
Now let’s say that cock is a about 3 inches. We want to peak normalize the measurement to 9 inches so we multiply by three.
1/2 an inch of rounding error multiplied by 3 would be 1.5 inches of rounding error.
1/8 an inch of rounding error multiplied by 3 would be 3/8 inches of rounding error – still less than the possible 1/2 inch from the first measurement.
That error is the quantization noise.
1.) What, if anything, did you physically, psychologically, emotionally, or sexually experience while listening to this audio? Your reply to this question doesn’t depend on having a definitive answer to questions 2 or 3.
-I don’t think I felt a physical change (apart from arousal, obviously) but I immediately felt drawn in and a sense of intimacy I haven’t experienced with any other audios.
2.) Were you aware of ASMR before reading this blog post?
-Yes.
3.) If you answered “yes” to #2, have you known yourself to be susceptible to ASMR in the past?
-No.
4.) If you answered “yes” to #3, what were the stimuli that triggered the response?
-NA
5.) Is the subject matter among your kinky interests?
-Jerk off instructions are kind of low on my list, but the increased sense of intimacy also made me feel vulnerable. It sort of emphasized the “control” aspect of “cock control” which has always been the part that appealed to me.
6.) Did you masturbate while listening?
-Yes.
7.) If you did masturbate, did listening while doing so change the experience in any way from other times you’ve stroked your cock? If so, in what way?
-I’m not sure.
8.) If I were to record more of this type of erotic audio, would you be interested?
-Absolutely.
9.) Do you think the addition of music or some other harmonious, meditative sound in the background, or interspersed with the whispers, would enhance the audio, or detract from it?
-It would depend on how subtle the background was. I’m a little leery of the idea, but I was a little leery of the whole concept of ASMR before listening to this.
10.) If your interests tend to be more hardcore, do you think this type of audio would still work?
-Absolutely. I think the format would work well for degradation, pain play, or any other hardcore fetish. I think You know by now that a lot of my fantasies center around being subdued, trained, and enslaved, and this had me thinking of some kind of orientation/hypnosis audio for newly captured subs.
11.) Conversely, do you think you would enjoy the audio more if the language, not the tone in which it was delivered, was softer/more sensual/more encouraging, as in a simple guided masturbation session?
-It seemed sensual enough to me.
Thank you for taking the time to listen and reply, fuckslut! That’s high praise, that this audio made you less skeptical of the AMSR phenomenon, even though you didn’t experience the physical “tingle”!
I might record some of these ASMR audios myself!
Well as for Me ollie, I rather enjoy hearing your voice full-tilt! *giggle*
Ms Rachel, I love the idea behind ASMT=R and loved your audio. You are certainly LDW’s “Wank Whisperer” and will have our pets stroking as you want them to.
Thank you, Miss Cindy!
1.) – Arousal, desire to listen again, following and pleasing you
2.) Yes! It’s a long time interest
3.) I have been susceptible
4.) Repetitve trigger words that I identify with as arousing. Good boy, please me, etc.
5.) Is the subject matter among your kinky interests? Yes!
6.) Did you masturbate while listening? No
7.) NA
8.) If I were to record more of this type of erotic audio, would you be interested? Yes Miss Rachel
9.) I’m not sure it would distract and may add you the whisper track.
10.) If your interests tend to be more hardcore, do you think this type of audio would still work? Yes, I do.
11.) I’m not sure I had experience a whisper type asmr before but found the effect to be increased. I seemed to listen to each word closer.. I think the delivery of different words, tones, and kinks would be even more erotic..
Thanks for creating this audio:)
Wessypoo! You know it’s always a pleasure to hear from you, and it thrills Me that you enjoyed My little experiment! Thanks for taking the time to take the survey!
Omg that’s good!
1) Breathless and aroused
2)yes and a fan of it
3)yes, sometimes I’ve even had prickles all over my head
4)a feeling of the whisper being inside my head and the breath on my skin, and also just out of reach
5)Yes but would also like being dressed up in girlie clothes and make up (there was a lipstick one on youtube that was really fun )
6)I just did the first time without masturbating to check it out, it was great. Now I will and I’m absolutely sure it will be fantastic. Thank you in advance.
7) see above
8) Definitely, I so want to listen to feminization/sissy asmr audios, pretty please.
9) I think music would detract from it. I prefer to really focus on the voice and let that make my skin tingle
10) I think hardcore language is just fine. I think it is more a matter of playing with the listener’s ability to just barely be able to hear you,…even though they really can hear you. Kind of like tickling up someone’s spine lightly with your fingertips.But I’m not an expert.
11) Well, see above. Almost anything asmr is fun for me, but especially LDW oriented would be the best. I suggest going on youtube and searching asmr and see if you can get that special tingle on your skin from like even an ordinary subject matter, it’s something.
Thrilled, Jennifer! And I will certainly take your feedback and suggestions to heart! Thank you for taking the time!