"Jcarr" (jcarr)
07/07/2017 at 15:04 • Filed to: None
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"Jcarr" (jcarr)
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Watching some supercar highlights from Goodwood and started to think about how someday we could all just be whirring around in near-silence, no intake or exhaust music to be heard.
That caused me to wonder, will some enterprising gearhead retrofit one of those engine noise enhancers that are on some cars now to project engine noises outside of a car?
Think of the possibilities. You could program your Apple Car econobox to sound like a 250 GTO, and then when you got tired of that (as if you could) you could, with a few swipes on the infotainment system, change it to sound like a Group B Quattro, or the Merlin in a P-51.
If such a thing ever came to pass, what would be on your “playlist” of engine sounds?
benjrblant
> Jcarr
07/07/2017 at 15:06 |
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Don’t several manufacturers already do this with audio inside the cabin? I seem to recall some company using a v8 recording for their v6 or i4?
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Jcarr
> benjrblant
07/07/2017 at 15:08 |
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That sounds vaguely familiar. I would assume that it wouldn’t be too hard to accomplish for an enterprising coder.
Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
> Jcarr
07/07/2017 at 15:28 |
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There was a guy who did a thing where he dubbed a Ferrari engine noise over his Mercedes...
BigBlock440
> Jcarr
07/07/2017 at 15:28 |
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Nothing, unless it was mandated. The sounds my car makes are it’s own. If it’s loud, it’s because it’s a high-compression V8 pumping 440 ci of air, or because the muffler blew up from a backfire and I replaced it with a glasspack, or because it’s a piece of shit and there’s another exhaust leak or the muffler’s off again so you can hear that pure 2.5 V6 fury. Sound is just a byproduct of something else, and I don’t want that something else to be electrons. Count me in the “all natural” crowd.
Danimalk - Drives a Slow Car Fast
> Jcarr
07/07/2017 at 15:30 |
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Renault is way ahead of you.
This came out years ago. Just need external speakers and you’re set.
http://jalopnik.com/the-renault-clio-gives-you-the-fake-engine-sounds-of-yo-1697053915
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Jcarr
> BigBlock440
07/07/2017 at 15:31 |
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But if it all becomes electrons eventually, why not go for something interesting instead of the whine of electric motors?
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BigBlock440
> Jcarr
07/07/2017 at 15:36 |
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I like mechanical, it that means the whine is it, than that’s what it is, I’m not fooling anybody. Blasting V8 sounds from an electric is like blasting your music through a bullhorn to make sure everyone you pass knows what you’re listening to, that’s not my style.
BaconSandwich is tasty.
> Jcarr
07/07/2017 at 16:55 |
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No need for external noise makers - let the rest of the car do that for you. You can get some really interesting noises by changing how the gears are cut. Check out the Harley Davidson LiveWire as an example:
Orange Exige
> Jcarr
07/07/2017 at 18:39 |
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How do they do it in racing games?
I’m not expecting you to know, but it’s a serious question I’ve always wondered. Do they record car sounds at various rpm and throttle positions and stitch sound bites together ad hoc according to the virtual car’s rpm and throttle? Do they just record a car accelerating at full throttle and simply adjust volume ad hoc to match the virtual car at any level of throttle?
However they do it, I imagine you can just use the same exact algorithms for drive-by-wire EVs if one really wanted to replicate ICE sounds.