Audio of an electric lamp bulb buzzing away. The recorder was held approximately 5cm away from the bulb. I have applied some EQ on the low end as I had to amplify this quite substantially for it to be audible.

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"Buzzing, Electric Lamp, A.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org

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The sound was recorded using a "H6 (XY) Zoom recorder" on 11th January 2018.

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