Yeah, but that could easily be chance. Now if the next step involves converting sound to images, I might be convinced. Maybe youāre right. Maybe we should look into solving this puzzle? Perhaps the method for the next clue can be used in the ARG?
In a way I wish I was involved, because I bet the other side is intruiging to be part of, then again, I am glad I am not and looking forward to continue participation. I am fine with whatever anyone thinks though and find it kind of funny and interesting at the same time.
As for hex to ascii (text), this is commonly used in puzzles, and usually easily recognised. Waking Titan has used it as well; 6475706C65 (DUPLE) for example. ASCII used 128 characters, and is expanded to 256. Together with binary, they form a history in computing, because it makes reading code easier to read for a human. Give it a try, hint
I used a headset, with the microphone folded between the earpieces, and the volume pretty high. It needs to get a good signal. I used the default setting for MMSSTV.
I believe @DevilinPixy puts the microphone up against the speakers.
I was being a little playful. No need to get defensive. Yet this whole thing comes out of ARG land. A place of smoke and mirrors, where nothing can be relied on to be what it seems. We know the organisers use fake user accounts and trusted agents to make sure certain pieces of information get found. They have to - otherwise, if a puzzle turned out to be too hard, the whole thing would grind to a halt.
Anyway, looks like the experts are on the case nowā¦
Yeah, I figure itās some sort of rotation/shift cipher. I tried a variety of cipher combinations on it and got nowhere. I will point out that the number of digits in the code matches the number of combination steps. Also the characters in the code could be hex, (nothing above F), but the odd number of characters mean they donāt translate directly to ascii.