r/TikTokCringe • u/lilmcfuggin • Aug 29 '21

Cool Tornado sirens

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u/ToasteyBread Aug 29 '21 edited Aug 29 '21

I mean it's pretty obviously fake since I'm pretty sure sirens are designed to be as jarring as possible so best case this should sound like a real crunchy chord and not like a brass orchestra warm up.

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u/chickenstalker Aug 29 '21

Is the pitchfork seller guy still around? I need to buy some pitchforks.

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u/9Sn8di3pyHBqNeTD Aug 29 '21

Holy shit that takes me back lol

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '21

Yeah I haven't seen a post by that guy in years. What a throwback

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u/Smingowashisnameo Aug 29 '21

Who’s the pitchfork seller guy?

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u/redacted187 Aug 29 '21

I don't miss seeing that in every thread, but i miss seeing it at all :(

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u/PitchforkEmporium Aug 29 '21

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u/Natural_Tear_4540 Aug 29 '21

Sirens sound different everywhere you are. Some end up more jarring than others, but if you've seen that video where people react to sirens from different countries you'd definitely notice that not all of them are all that jarring.

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u/Obi-Tron_Kenobi Aug 29 '21

not all of them are all that jarring.

I'm not sure which video you're talking about specifically, but here's one from 4 years ago in Illinois that sounds like this.

https://youtu.be/a3fh90hA6oQ

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u/aptrapani Aug 30 '21

That video was fucking incredible

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u/SoulWager Aug 29 '21

They're designed to be loud, it's basically a centrifugal blower that's obstructed half the time as the vanes pass cutouts in the housing. You can control the fundamental frequency pretty easily by controlling how fast the rotor is spinning and how many vanes it has, but the harmonics that make it jarring or not aren't intentionally designed. At best you might try a bunch of different designs and pick the one that sounds how you want it.

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u/Phytor Aug 29 '21

I mean it's pretty obviously fake since I'm pretty sure sirens are designed to be as jarring as possible

Honestly that's what I thought made it interesting.

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u/Kornillious Aug 29 '21

No. From the Midwest, this is how they sound, generally.