Alex HallSomeone recommended the podcast Palimpsest. I'm on episode 3. I get what they're doing, but they keep ruining the effect with over-done, poorly-considered audio effects. The idea is that the main character is recording her voice on her phone. But when the recordings stop and start, there's not the quiet pop or handling sounds you'd expect. Instead, we hear a tape deck sound. When a child laughs or a dog barks, the sound is inserted, rather than us hearing it as her phone would.
To clarify, the sounds we hear aren't just at a different audio quality. The problem is that the narrator tells us she hears them through a closed window, or in her neighbor's apartment. But rather than a phone picking up muffled sounds, we hear audio clips at the same quality as the narrator's voice. No muffling, no attenuation, nothing. If you're going for the found footage model, you shouldn't fake sounds like this. If you do, fake them well.