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car.flac

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n2p5

February 9th, 2008

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Sound effects > Other mechanisms, engines, machines

This was a strange discovery.
I discovered that my car, when AM is set to 540, picks up noise from acceleration.

The EMI is inverse to the pressure i put on the accelerator. Therefore, when i accelerate, the tone moves down.
This is a recording i made driving home from work. I used my ZOOM H4 with the built in stereo mic built in.
recorded at 48/24 encoded to flac.

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am
car
emi
motor
noise
radio
speaker
static

Type

Flac (.flac)

Duration

8:58.576

File size

48.2 MB

Sample rate

48000.0 Hz

Bit depth

16 bit

Channels

Stereo

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Pax11

6 years, 9 months ago

That is a great discovery indeed. So alien and existential in terms of expression. Great recording on the Zoom4. I am looking to buy a Zoom 5. Are you happy with your Zoom product ?

acrobatricks

9 years, 2 months ago

nicely said hello_flowers. Freesound is a great community indeed.

Great piece of recording !

rfhache

17 years, 10 months ago

hello, sanus, hammer said exactly what i feel about. great discovery and take !!

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sanus_excipio

17 years, 11 months ago

Ha! This adds a whole new dimension to driving. A new artform - throttle synthesis compositions? Like the exhaust back in there on some segments.

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hello_flowers

17 years, 11 months ago

Amazing, this makes for a brilliant conceptual piece!

It's things like this that make me glad that freesound is around for people to put their recordings.

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