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Title: Awesome Airraid Siren sound
Post by: Vruth on March 14, 2002, 02:16:01 PM

It's a real recording of an air raid siren from Operation Desert Storm. I made it for our alarm speaker system for Scud attacks when I was posted to Qatar. I set up a mic outside next to a hand cranked version on a tower and ran the input into my PC.  That way we could give the alarm from the computer wave file without having one of the boys run up the tower every time the intel boys alerted us to sound the alarm.  If you listen closely, you can hear some background noise of guys running around the airfield and various vehicles. :D

I had it on a 3 1/2 floppy kicking around my room and when I heard the wimpy one last night, I remembered the one I had on an old floppy that was 10 years old. Still worked!

Here it is: http://members.shaw.ca/vruth/airraid.wav -> put it in your sounds folder.  Sounds pretty cool in Aces High.

Title: Awesome Airraid Siren sound
Post by: RangerBob on March 14, 2002, 04:25:45 PM

WOW!

I dove under the desk...

Best air raid sound available. It brought back immediate memories of Vietnam when we used to come out of the field to a rear base area, and those attack sirens would go off!

Let me tell ya guys, this is it.

Thanks for taking the time to share your sound clip Vruth.

Ranger Bob

Title: Awesome Airraid Siren sound
Post by: Scootter on March 14, 2002, 04:50:54 PM

Nice

First new sound I have added in a long time

WTG

Title: Awesome Airraid Siren sound
Post by: discod on March 14, 2002, 05:28:51 PM

INCOMING!!!!!

Oh whew!  Only a sound file :)


Nice

Title: Awesome Airraid Siren sound
Post by: Wlfgng on March 14, 2002, 05:35:20 PM

<<<<   Post Traumatic Stress... sheeeeeeit

Title: Awesome Airraid Siren sound
Post by: bloom25 on March 14, 2002, 07:57:32 PM

Very nice!

Maybe someone could trim the file so where the start sounded like the end and then HTC themselves could use it.  (I'm assuming it's not copyrighted. ;) )

Title: Shortened file
Post by: Vruth on March 14, 2002, 10:54:06 PM

I have trimmed the file down to half it's original size to 300k - two full cycles and it works perfectly now - cycling back without much delay.

http://members.shaw.ca/vruth/airraid.wav


Enjoy!

V

Title: Awesome Airraid Siren sound
Post by: Dingy on March 15, 2002, 11:02:28 AM

OH YES!!  This works MUCH BETTER than the other airraid warning.  An absolute MUST download.

I've forgotten how much these sounds really help add to the immersion.  Gonna have to download Mitsu's soundpack as well.

Title: Awesome Airraid Siren sound
Post by: Ratbo on March 15, 2002, 03:33:06 PM

Heh!

I wanna find a way to suck the air-raid siren out of Black Sabbaths "War Pigs" into.

-W

(nice work!)

Title: Awesome Airraid Siren sound
Post by: Octavius on March 15, 2002, 08:22:28 PM

NICE VRUTH!!!!

Title: Awesome Airraid Siren sound
Post by: Virage on March 16, 2002, 01:11:47 PM

That siren is too good... freaks me out!  It is almost... sinister. lol

I don't want to hear that while I'm playing sheesh.

ps- I'm not the only one... freaked my cat out too!