Engine sounds

[Nathan Pasho]

We had a guy in the UK record some sounds for us, and they came out really well, but Marc had a listen to them, and said they sounded like an unmodified car.

The sounds are here:
http://rapidshare.de/files/22814744/2cv_sounds.ace.html

It's a bit tricky if you have not used Rapidshare before.

Click "Free" (a small grey button on lower right)

You will see: "Download-Ticket reserved. Please wait 30 seconds"

after the timer expires there is a code displayed in a colored box

3 symbols

"No premium-user. Please enter  ____ here: "  (click button) "Download from Mirror Berlin"

To listen to them, you will need to decompress the files with WinRar.
http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm

Any one of you folks have an audio recorder and the inclination to play with it?  

[Catherine Noble]

Is there not some sound on the Spa clip that's online somewhere? Would give you a comparison to what you currently have, though can't remember the link, it's on the forum somewhere ... !

C x

[Marc Fenner]

have past that on already

[paul taylor]

The car recorded was car 69 from this years race.
It runs the same Pete Sparrow exhaust as half over the cars these days.
What were expecting a meaty V8 sound??

[Catherine Noble]

What were expecting a meaty V8 sound??

[Nathan Pasho]

I got a clip of this years Snetterton race, and Marc is right.  The external sounds seem to be missing a lot of the bass, I guess just not picked up by the mic.  

We are blending the sounds to try to get the right effect.

[Catherine Noble]

Personally, I wouldn't have said 2cv exhausts have a lot of bass ... racing or otherwise, but maybe there's someone more musical amongst us who could confirm!

C x

[Nathan Pasho]

Catherine, did you listen to the sounds that I posted?  What do you think of them?

[Catherine Noble]

Unfortunately not as I'm unable to download

Not very good with computers!

C x

[paul taylor]

I think some of the difference in sound could be down to how far the mic is away from the car. On the recording we did the mic was only one foot away from the front of the car. This is very different to the sound on track. The best thing to do would be to get some on track recording done at the next race at Anglesey next weekend.

[Nathan Pasho]

That would be good Paul.  I'll email Lee and see what he thinks.  

Thanks for letting Lee work with your car, by the way.

[Nathan Pasho]

Lee will not be able to make it to the race this weekend.  Anyone else interested in some more audio recording just for kicks?

[paul taylor]

We will be videoing the race, leave it with us.