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A look at the first electronic instrument and the very interesting person who invented it.

 

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Theme music is “Let’s Sell Some Cars” by Steve Combs

Sound effects are:

Rhythmicon all keys.mid from Wikimedia Commons uploaded by Hyacinth

Freesound.org sound effects:

theremin-dive by Bone666138

Record scratch by Luffy

18-theremin by Rap2h

Today we have a change in format. I'll be interviewing Andrew Mitchell, the director of Cogent Acoustics, about noise barriers.

What can they achieve? What are their limitations and can my home fence act as a noise barrier?

 

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Theme music is “Let’s Sell Some Cars” by Steve Combs

What is the difference between all the different types of microphone?

 

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Theme music is “Let’s Sell Some Cars” by Steve Combs

Sound effects are:

Alexander Graham Bell's Voice.ogg from Wikimedia Commons

winston-churchill-fight-on-the-beaches-1940-06-04 from Winstonchurchill.org

Today we are going on a tangent and talking about Australian Aboriginal musical instruments.

Special thanks to Matthew Bowman for co-writing this one.

 

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Theme music is “Let’s Sell Some Cars” by Steve Combs

Sound effects from Freesound.org, including:

Didgeridoo Man by Digifishmusic

Clapstick Beat 4 by dylanbigdaddy

Street Didjeridoo cut 1 by temawas

didg 3 sample by CMeeson

Cambodian Music 02 by Rucisko

Piano Key C2 by Group 1

This is the episode where we talk about how to acoustically improve your own home.

 

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Theme music is “Let’s Sell Some Cars” by Steve Combs

Sound effects are from Freesound.org and include:

"Fuze Switch Flick" by Lordforklift

"Exhaust Fan 4" by Mwlandi

"air-conditioning_hotel-room" by Geodylabs

"Mexico nightclub" by Vortichez

"Large_crowd_medium_distance_stereo" by Eguobyte

"Big train passing by" by Mrkva

"Hwy 134 (Binaural)" by Courter

This is going to be a two part episode where we discuss how sound behaves in a room before moving on to soundproofing your home.

 

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Flutter echo recording used with the kind permission of Derrick Gill from Donegan Acoustics in Ireland. Here is the original clip in full:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGGNvJGaJ0U&t=1s

 

The orchestra recording within an anechoic chamber was kindly made available by:

Pätynen, J., Pulkki, V., and Lokki, T., "Anechoic recording system for symphony orchestra," Acta Acustica united with Acustica, vol. 94, nr. 6, pp. 856-865, November/December 2008. [Online IngentaConnect]

 

Theme music is “Let’s Sell Some Cars” by Steve Combs

 

Other sound effects are from Freesound.org. These are:

"Poem: Darkness (Voice)" by Speedenza

"Glass Smash, Bottle, D" by InspectorJ

"Marbels in Glass 2" by Lightartphotos

"Slurping" by Biawinter

"Evan's Single Bounce" by Evan.schad

"SummerOpenFieldDusk" by Kvgarlic

 

"Street Fighter Hadouken Sound Effect" downloaded from Soundfxcenter.com

When you see a decibel rating on a fan, it's obvious what it means, right? Unfortunately, no. Here is what those decibel ratings really mean.

 

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The following sound effects were used from Freesound.org

Chinese_poem.wav by st888

Cartoony nonsense talk 01 by unfa

Uplifting Orchestra by oymaldonado

V-start by Raelwissdorf

Jet by Bird_man

 

Theme music is “Let’s Sell Some Cars” by Steve Combs

What does that (A) mean that you often see on the end of sound ratings? Like 65 dB(A)?

Well, after this you will know, and as GI Joe says "Knowing is half the battle".

 

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Theme music is “Let’s Sell Some Cars” by Steve Combs

 

Effects from Freesound.org:

Electric Fan 02 by Unfa

Air Conditioner, Rotating Fan,A.wav by InspectorJ

Get ready for a special episode where we demonstrate some amazing acoustic illusions and meet some of the people who made them.

 

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Theme music is “Let’s Sell Some Cars” by Steve Combs

 

Effects from Freesound.org:

DescenteInfinie.org by TasmanianPower

Shepard_tone_seamless by 1urker

 

Effects from Wikimedia Commons:

Binaural_beats_lossless_new.wav by MetalHead 64

ConstantSpectrumMelody.ogg by Fabrice Neyret

Deutsch_scale_illusion.ogg by Mysid

YannyLaurel.ogg by Yoshiman6464

 

Effects from http://deutsch.ucsd.edu/:

ex_octave_illusion_1min.wav

Sound_demo_1.mp3

Sound_demo_2.mp3

 

The endless stairs clip from Super Mario 64 is copyrighted and is used under fair use for the following reasons:

-There is not adequate alternative known that really shows a musical shepard tone effect.

-The sample is used for educational purposes.

-The sample is relatively short and the clip is only long enough to clearly show the effect.

The final episode in our series on music. This time we talk about music itself rather than the instruments.

 

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Special thanks for this episode go to Justin Lloyd for the face melting guitar solo at very short notice and to Joel Murray for writing the episode.

 

Theme music is “Let’s Sell Some Cars” by Steve Combs

The short piano piece was "Classical Piano Loop" by DDmyzik and was downloaded from Freesound.org