Re: traffic noise

Hi Bill Alves,

Have you tried running traffic sound backwards in your
music?

If so, was it an interesting effect, or much the same as
running it forwards?

Robert

At 12:18 AM 4/7/01 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi Bill Alves,
Yesw, I know, I'm not Bill but I've played around much with such noises.
>Have you tried running traffic sound backwards in your
>music?
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>If so, was it an interesting effect, or much the same as
>running it forwards?
>
>Robert
Unfortunately for my ears, at least, I'[ve never found a situation where a
traffic recording didn't have a lotta cues in it that, when run backward,
gave the trick away far too often to create any illusions. I did think it
would be neat to have the traffic sound as if it were decellerating as it
left the stopsign or to hear a reversed dopler effect, but there was always
too much in the sound that simply made my brain say "backward noise."
Jay
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Hi Jay,

> Well, I found the ideal recording to run backward. I recorded much of a
> stockcar race once. With the sounds at that volume, there weren't any
> echoes to tell my brain that the space got reversed, and it really did seem
> a bit odd to hear the traffic constantly rising in pitch as it went by. I
> suppose if you record from the middle of a highway with few trees around
> you could produce some pretty interesting illusions. It's just thatcha
> don't want any sounds that ring or produce echoes.

This does sound interesting. I'd like to hear it!

Also interested in what you say about echoes. I'd never quite noticed the echo
that trails the car sound before, for instance as it travels along a street.

I can imagine that if one had the echo preceding the car, it would sound "backwards".

Robert

At 08:38 PM 4/8/01 +0100, you wrote:
>Also interested in what you say about echoes. I'd never quite noticed the
echo
>that trails the car sound before, for instance as it travels along a street.
You usually won't hear it, but there's always someone who insists on
driving with their horn and that will echo off anything significantly like
buildings and other urban things. Trees aren't so bad. But the main culprit
would be the metallic percussion noises. You'd hafta delete the
engine-knockings and the loose chrome things.
Jay