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Does anybody know what this sound is. Money can be earned if it is the rigth description.

Sound is to be heard at this link

http://www.panoramaworld.eu/audio/qsound.wav

Jan, panographer

My first thought was one of those old credit card swiping machines, but it has a little more bass in it, and sounds larger. The first half is definitely edited.
Can I buy a vowel?

Thank you for your answer but as you noticed there is a kind of wooden board sound underneath it so in my opnion it is something mounted on board and the sound is like something going in and immediately out again. But it is not a stamping machine or a door opening, suitcase, slideprojector, digital camera. But the question still remains what is it. And a good answer can yield good money as it is the question in a game. Hope someone has an idea what it could be.

Glove compartment door latch ?

Only one of the "Top Gear" presenters could tell you which make and model.

I definitely don't hear any wood. More plastic and metal. Unless what you said was a hint.
Glove Compartment is a good guess. I was thinking gear shift.
Whatever it is, it sounds like to me to be on top of something hollow. You can hear the resonance in the second half.

Peaks at 50Hz and its harmonics in noise , so not recorded in North America.

I'm getting plastic not wood, (I'm sounding like Jilly Goolden ).

There are a lot of mechanical sounds that will sound like this one, there are about 400 wrong answers given untill nowAltough it is not a simple sound. There are similaraties between the first and the second, but I feel (not sure though) that it is a kind of in-out or open-close sound.

panograaf
There are a lot of mechanical sounds that will sound like this one, there are about 400 wrong answers given untill nowAltough it is not a simple sound. There are similaraties between the first and the second, but I feel (not sure though) that it is a kind of in-out or open-close sound.

I'm not hearing an "In/Out" sound.
Care to let us in on where this competition to guess the sound is?

It sounds a bit like one of mine ... http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=69955

If we get it right Panograaf what’s our cut of the winnings ?

It is a nice gues but that sound is snappy, short. This sound is much slower and there is no slamming sound in it. It is much more clearer.

When I think it is the rigth sound I have to SMS and wait and hope if I am chosen to give the answer but I think a 5000 euro when I win will be a nice cut, so if you think it is worth the trouble keep me posted with guesses

panograaf
5000 euro

There are a lot of mechanical sounds that will sound like this one, there are about 400 wrong answers given untill nowAltough it is not a simple sound. There are similaraties between the first and the second, but I feel (not sure though) that it is a kind of in-out or open-close sound.

I think you are close!
It sounds VERY similar to a through-stitching machine used to sew welts to leather soles (shoes).The first sound is the needle punching through the material,the second "emptier" sound is it returning.These are big,heavy machines,(you stand up when using them).Even the speed sounds right.

........but this is probably wrong so please tell us when you know the answer!

juskiddink
It sounds VERY similar to a through-stitching machine used to sew welts to leather soles (shoes).
The first sound is the needle punching through the material,the second "emptier" sound is it returning.

[the shoe stitcher would be too obscure for a "what is this sound" competition]

Timbre

juskiddink
It sounds VERY similar to a through-stitching machine used to sew welts to leather soles (shoes).
The first sound is the needle punching through the material,the second "emptier" sound is it returning.

You've given me an idea Juskiddink ... a paper punch: puts holes in paper to fit paper in ring binder.

[the shoe stitcher would be too obscure for a "what is this sound" competition]

I guess you count anything out. But I would imagine if it was a paper punch or a leather punch... they would put that material in there to add to the sound. I don't know what leather sounds like, but I know paper.

Panograaf... are you just giving us YOUR opinions when you say things sound "wood" or "snappy", "slower"? Or do you know something we don't know? Since you won't share where the contest is located.

Stephan.Matson
My first thought was one of those old credit card swiping machines ...

Timbre

Stephan.Matson
My first thought was one of those old credit card swiping machines ...

"manual imprinter" ? ... http://www.vantagecard.com/equipment/imprinter.html

Yeah, thats what I was thinking

To me it sounds like a date stamper or big-sized stapler, operated on a wooden table or hollow wooden counter. Although the mic (or voice recorder, judging from the spectral view of the sound) seems close to the source, a high-pitch tone can be heard in background, so my guess is the mechanical sound was not very hot in itself. Alternatively, the tone may not belong to the recording (can only be heard on the left channel), if so the recorder (zoom H2 maybe?) had a problem of some kind

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Nice teamwork,good thread.
Hearing this again today with all your input and it's like the material isn't there for a punch-through sound....so some form of stamp then?
Good ear Dobroide,the mic does sound close to the source and not hot in itself,so downsizeing from something large and heavy on a wooden floor to small,hand operated on a counter or table maybe the way to go.It's a nice sound,the mechanism sounds well-made (maybe not something mass-produced recently).

......and Timbre,
Yeah,the through-stitcher is an obscure machine,but too obscure for the general public to have a chance to win?????.....Guessing 7 random numbers-now THATS what i call obscure.

dobroide
To me it sounds like a date stamper ...

juskiddink
and Timbre,
Yeah,the through-stitcher is an obscure machine,but too obscure for the general public to have a chance to win?????.....Guessing 7 random numbers-now THATS what i call obscure.

Timbre...you are right of course,it's the chances of winning that are obscure.

..continuing the stamp idea,could it be the card-punch used to clock in and out of many workplaces?