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Locomotive 1 Distant horn.wav

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patchen

April 9th, 2006

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Sound effects > Vehicles
field-recording LOCOMOTIVE

Diesel Locomotive Horn from distance, partially
obscured by bird and city sounds. This sample pack is numbered
chronologically as edited from the original recording: Engine
approaches from left with recording #1 and exits to the right with
recording #5. Recordings are of a Diesel locomotive approaching and
mating with the rear of a freight train outside of a wherehouse in
Austin, Tx. Rode NT4 mic into Sound Devices MixPre, recorded at 16bit 44.1 with Sony Hi-Md. Edited In Cubase.

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ambience
birds
field-recording
horn
locomotive
train

Type

Wave (.wav)

Duration

0:23.661

File size

4.0 MB

Sample rate

44100.0 Hz

Bit depth

16 bit

Channels

Stereo

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deleted_user...

4 years, 8 months ago

Thank you! This sound is used (either verbatim or in edited form) in OpenSFX, the official sound set of OpenTTD, a free software transportation management game. You have been credited in the readme file of OpenSFX.

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veritechnikal

7 years, 11 months ago

Horn signal for a grade crossing.

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B.R.A.N.D

12 years, 8 months ago

nice thx

mannhawks

13 years, 10 months ago

Classic recording; thank you.

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DR_Eli

14 years, 2 months ago

Very relaxing as I grew up near a train station and went to sleep listening to this!

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