Upload your audio and push it to the absolute limits. Create harsh noise walls, experimental soundscapes, or just completely destroy a song. Every slider goes to ridiculous extremes. Preview your chaos in real-time!
What is Cherry Point?
Named after the harsh noise artist, Cherry Point is an extreme audio effects tool that lets you push distortion, delay, tremolo, and vibrato to absolutely ridiculous levels. This isn't subtle. This isn't tasteful. This is audio destruction.
The Effects Explained
đĨ Distortion (0-1000%): Transform clean audio into pure chaos. At low levels (0-100%), you get guitar-like overdrive. At medium levels (100-300%), aggressive clipping and grit. At high levels (300-1000%), the original audio becomes completely unrecognizable noise.
Distortion Types:
- Soft Clip: Warm, vintage-style distortion. Still musical even at high levels.
- Hard Clip: Aggressive brick-wall clipping. Creates harsh, cutting distortion.
- Foldback: Wave folding creates complex harmonics and chaotic textures.
- Bitcrusher: Digital degradation, lo-fi, 8-bit style destruction.
đ Delay (0-500%): From subtle echo to infinite cascading repeats. At low levels (0-50%), you get classic slapback. At medium (50-150%), rhythmic echoes. At extreme levels (150-500%), the delays pile up into a wall of sound where the original audio drowns in its own reflections.
Delay Types:
- Slapback: 100-200ms - Classic rockabilly/surf guitar delay
- Echo: 500-1000ms - Rhythmic repeating echoes
- Long Delay: 2-7 seconds - Ambient, spacey, droning delays
- Infinite: 10-20 seconds with near-infinite feedback - Self-sustaining loops that never stop. At high settings (400%+), the feedback approaches 0.98, creating a drone machine that continues indefinitely even after stopping playback. This is the Basinski setting.
đŗ Tremolo (0-200%): Rapid volume pulsing. At low levels, subtle rhythmic wobble. At extreme levels, the volume cuts in and out so rapidly it creates a stuttering, glitching effect. WARNING: 150%+ can be disorienting.
đĩ Vibrato (0-200%): Pitch warbling and detuning. Low levels create vintage tape-style wobble. High levels make the audio sound drunk and seasick. Extreme levels (150%+) create wild pitch swings that sound completely broken.
Popular Presets
đ¸ Overdrive: Heavy guitar-style distortion with short delay. Makes everything sound like it's being played through a blown-out amplifier.
đ Psychedelic: Extreme everything. High distortion, long delays, wobbling tremolo and vibrato. Turns any audio into a disorienting trip.
đ Infinite Drone: The ambient/drone special. Minimal distortion with 450% delay on Infinite mode creates a self-sustaining feedback loop with slight vibrato for pitch drift. This preset is designed to keep going even after you stop it. Perfect for creating evolving soundscapes that morph over time. Upload any sound - even a single note - and watch it transform into a 20-minute drone piece.
đĨ Harsh Noise Wall: Maximum distortion and delay, no tremolo/vibrato. Pure harsh noise. The audio becomes a solid wall of static and feedback. Perfect for noise music.
What Can You Make With This?
Drone Music & Ambient Soundscapes: Use the Infinite Drone preset or set delay to 400%+ on Infinite mode. Upload any sound - a single piano note, field recording, or snippet of music - and it becomes a self-sustaining drone that evolves over 20+ minutes. The high feedback creates a William Basinski-style decaying loop. Add slight vibrato (10-20%) for pitch drift and organic movement. Perfect for meditation, sound installations, or background ambience.
Harsh Noise Music: Create walls of distortion and feedback. Perfect for noise artists, power electronics, and experimental music. Max out distortion (800-1000%) with Foldback mode for inharmonic chaos, then add extreme delay for density.
Psychedelic Trance States: Like Cherry Point's work, extreme settings (especially 500%+ delay with 98%+ feedback) create overwhelming walls of sound. Listen for 15+ minutes and your brain starts finding patterns, melodies, and rhythms that aren't actually there. It's audio pareidolia - your mind trying to make sense of chaos.
Lo-Fi / Cassette Tape Effects: Use low-to-medium settings (50-150% distortion, bitcrusher mode) for vintage, degraded tape sounds.
Experimental Soundscapes: Combine long delays with tremolo to create evolving, pulsing ambient textures.
Destroy Songs You Hate: Turn any annoying song into unintelligible noise. Therapeutic.
Audio Art / Sound Collages: Push familiar sounds into unrecognizable territory for experimental projects.
Video Game / Film SFX: Create broken radio effects, alien transmissions, damaged technology sounds, or horror ambience.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is this tool called "Cherry Point"?
It's named after the American harsh noise artist Cherry Point (aka Neil Campbell), known for creating extremely distorted, feedback-heavy noise music. This tool embodies that same spirit of extreme audio destruction.
Will this destroy my audio permanently?
No! It only affects the downloaded file. Your original file is never modified. You can always upload again and try different settings.
Is there any practical use for 1000% distortion?
For most music production? No. For harsh noise music, experimental audio art, or just having fun destroying songs? Absolutely. Not everything needs to be practical.
What's the difference between distortion types?
Soft Clip sounds warm and vintage. Hard Clip is aggressive and cutting. Foldback creates weird, inharmonic sounds. Bitcrusher sounds digital and lo-fi. Try them all!
Why do the delays go up to 10 seconds?
Because why not? At extreme delay times with high feedback, you create dense, evolving soundscapes where the original audio becomes a small part of a much larger texture.
Can I hear my changes before downloading?
Yes! Click "Preview Audio" or press spacebar. All effects apply in real-time. Adjust any slider while listening and hear the changes immediately.
Is this safe for my ears/speakers?
START AT LOW VOLUME. Extreme settings create very loud, harsh, unpredictable audio. Use headphones at low volume first, then gradually increase if needed.
What audio formats are supported?
Upload MP3, FLAC, WAV, AAC, or OGG. Your destroyed audio downloads as high-quality MP3.
Can I combine all effects at maximum?
You can, but the result will be complete chaos - just noise with no resemblance to the original audio. Sometimes that's exactly what you want!
Will this make my music sound better?
Probably not in any conventional sense. But it might make it more interesting, experimental, or just plain ridiculous.
Is this tool free?
Yes, completely free. Destroy unlimited audio files at no cost.
Can I use this for making harsh noise music?
That's literally what it's designed for. Upload any sound source, crank everything to maximum, and you've got instant harsh noise.
Why does the audio keep playing after I stop the preview?
You've created a self-sustaining feedback loop! At high delay settings (400%+) with Infinite mode, the feedback gain approaches 0.98, meaning 98% of the signal feeds back into itself. The audio circulates through the 10-20 second delay buffer indefinitely, slowly decaying but taking minutes to die out. This is intentional and perfect for drone music - it's exactly how artists like William Basinski create evolving soundscapes. Upload a single note and it becomes a 20-minute drone piece.
How do I create drone/ambient music with this?
Use the Infinite Drone preset, or manually set delay to 400-500% on Infinite mode with minimal distortion (0-100%). Upload any sound - even a single sustained note or field recording. Press preview and let it run. The extreme feedback creates a self-sustaining loop that continues even after you stop it. Add 10-20% vibrato for organic pitch drift. The sound will evolve and morph over time as the delays stack and interact.