"In-car gadget to evoke classic motoring
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Inventors in the US are working on an immersive audio system for classic car enthusiasts.
Jay and Jason Plugge aim to market a radio that plays soundtracks of bygone engine noise.
Their patent covers a device that works by storing sound samples in on-board memory chips.
The samples are linked to the engine's rev sensors, so the soundtrack reacts to pressure on the pedal.
The resulting synchronised noise is played back along with any music or radio programme.
The inventors told New Scientist they've been inspired by 'lamentable' advances in engine technology that have banished "the endearing and unique audible sound signatures" of classic cars and motorbikes.
The patent was featured in the Journal of the Accoustical Society of America."
Now I can imagine I have that Daytona?
Tomo
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Damn. I came up with this idea myself a couple of years ago, but I thought it was a bit sad, so I didn't patent it. Mine would have been better though - using a six speaker stereo to reproduce induction and transmission as well as exhaust sound. so you could make your Mondeo sound like a Formula One race car, or a Jaguar D-type, at the press of a button. I wonder if they are using noise cancelling technology to get rid of the background sound of the real engine - that would have been in my patent as well. Laziness will be my undoing.
Richard Hall
bangernomics.tripod.com
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I'm sure this isn't new. I read this in New Scientist (wonder if they check their back numbers?) years ago - it was then a by-product which had sprung from noise cancellation techniques which were being developed. Instead of feeding back an just an accurate anti-phase signal, the 'revised' noise signature was added. I reckon this is just the start of a 'commercial' system. Can you imagine, this added on to the thumping bass of an alloy-wheeled Nova as seen in your local High Street.
Regards
John S
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Can you get it on CD, I wonder? If you can, I'll get a copy of a 10-yr-old escort with a dodgy muffler, play it LOUD on my home hifi, set it on 'repeat', open the windows ... and go away for the weekend.
That'll maybe teach the git next door that I don't approve of his antics at 2am, when he returns plastered from the pub, and tries to impress his mates...
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Buy some stacked shotgun open drag pipes for your HD :=)
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I wish, Growler, I wish ...
Unfortunately Mummy and two juniors wouldn't fit too well on a Hog. (yes, I know in the Phils that 7-up on a scooter is the norm, but here we are just a tad more civilised...)
The other ploy is, of course, to leave a note for the milkman:
"We are having a party tonight - 15 litres, please!"
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Tomo,
Have you seen the TV advert for a car(Renault/Citroen?) where the driver makes tyre 'screeching'noises as he drives up a mountain pass?
A recording of that would wake up the passengers.
C
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"Have you seen the TV advert for a car(Renault/Citroen?) where the driver makes tyre 'screeching'noises as he drives up a mountain pass?"
Yes, excruciating! Don't the French blow their tyres up?
Don't see how it can sell cars.
Cheers,
Tomo
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Don't the French blow their tyres up?
No - that is far too challenging - they usually stick to blowing up pretty coral athols in the middle of the Pacific!
But on a more serious point, the French autoroutes often have sign posts stating that under inflated tyres are dangerous and they also provide free air. (Admittedly they don't bother mentioning that tyre pressure readings will be out if you have been driving 160kmh for the past 3 hours). Perhaps the powers to be in this country should teach people to be more aware of their tyre pressures because the amount of underinflated tyres is worrying.
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