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The pitch that rises forever but never gets higher
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The deeply unnerving Shepard tone is a totally incredible psychoacoustic illusion created by actively stacking heavy massively overlapping sine waves spaced entirely in complete octaves. As the massive volume of different distinct layers aggressively heavily shifts, your completely tricked brain vividly perceives a completely deeply terrifying infinitely rising pitch that absolutely never actually peaks.
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