Ring modulation is a type of sound effect that is usually used in electronic music. It takes two sounds and mashes them together to create a third distinct sound. Imagine that you have two pieces of rope and you join them together. Now you have a single rope with two different shapes. That's one way to think about ring modulation. It takes two sounds, twists them around each other, and produces a new sound. It's like playing two notes at the same time, but with a twist!