The Siren Board

Here is a pair of my own siren recordings, made in May and June of 2004. I recorded both of these on test days at a friend's house. My friend's house is two doors away from Kenwood Elementary School, where this Thunderbolt 1000T is located. I was extremely lucky in June of 04, when I managed to get a recording of this siren in Attack Mode. Somehow, Emergency Management pushed the wrong button on a control panel, and the sirens with the older radios sounded in Attack instead of Alert. Here in Louisville, our sirens are only tested in Alert. These recordings were recorded on two different tape recorders, so they sound different from each other. Back when I originally burned these recordings to CD, I added a little reverb to the Alert recording, to add the illusion of stereo. When I put the Attack recording on CD later, all I did was take some of the excess high end out of it, so the sound quality would match the Alert recording. These were both made before Emergency Management messed with the blowers on all of our TBolts, so the blower cuts off when it's supposed to.

Alert: http://media.putfile.com/Kenwood-TBolt-in-Alert

Attack: http://media.putfile.com/Kenwood-TBolt-in-Attack

BTW, if someone can link me to a better free file sharing site that allows direct links, I'd greatly appreciate it! I want to make my recordings easier to get to.

Good sounding 1000Ts there. Like the "stereo" effect.

If you want a good place to host your siren sound files, I highly suggest The Freesound project.

http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/index.php

Good site for joining, uploading, mixing, playing back, hosting, and downloading SOUNDS (no songs/music allowed). It's free, and is licensed under Creative Commons.

mhmcdonal wrote:Good sounding 1000Ts there. Like the "stereo" effect.

If you want a good place to host your siren sound files, I highly suggest The Freesound project.

http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/index.php

Good site for joining, uploading, mixing, playing back, hosting, and downloading SOUNDS (no songs/music allowed). It's free, and is licensed under Creative Commons.

Thanks! Do they allow you to direct link to specific files?

BTW, if you listen very closely to the beginning of the Attack recording, you can hear a 2001 in Alert mode, but once the TBolt gets started, you can't hear any other sirens. It sounds like the rotator on this TBolt is set to 4 RPM's. You can really hear the blower good on the Alert recording.

Oh ok. Try here then:

http://www.fileden.com.

Free account, 50 GB monthly bandwidth, 1 GB storage, 50 MB file size limit, and of course, direct link so you "...can embed your files into your webpages, myspace or other social networking profiles.".

mhmcdonal wrote:Oh ok. Try here then:

http://www.fileden.com.

Free account, 50 GB monthly bandwidth, 1 GB storage, 50 MB file size limit, and of course, direct link so you "...can embed your files into your webpages, myspace or other social networking profiles.".

1 GB storage? Does that mean that I can only put up to 1 GB of files on the site for people to view? That's not much.

great reverb effect, really adds something to the wind-up and downs!

ver tum wrote:1 GB storage? Does that mean that I can only put up to 1 GB of files on the site for people to view? That's not much.

If your careful with what you encode your files in, it should be plenty of space.
It's up to you and how well it sounds, but try saving all your files under various bit rates (like 64, 128, 192) at 44KHz sampling rate and see which sounds the best and which has the most reasonable size.

You should be able to squeeze quite a few files into it before you have any troubles, even then: you can always create another account.

Justin wrote:

ver tum wrote:1 GB storage? Does that mean that I can only put up to 1 GB of files on the site for people to view? That's not much.

If your careful with what you encode your files in, it should be plenty of space.
It's up to you and how well it sounds, but try saving all your files under various bit rates (like 64, 128, 192) at 44KHz sampling rate and see which sounds the best and which has the most reasonable size.

You should be able to squeeze quite a few files into it before you have any troubles, even then: you can always create another account.

Thanks again man! I'll try it.

mhmcdonal wrote:Oh ok. Try here then:

http://www.fileden.com.

Free account, 50 GB monthly bandwidth, 1 GB storage, 50 MB file size limit, and of course, direct link so you "...can embed your files into your webpages, myspace or other social networking profiles.".

I created an account on FileDen yesterday, but I'm having a problem creating direct links to my files. Could someone please help me? I don't want users to have to go through the unnecessary steps that Putfile makes you go through any more.

Finally figured out how to work FileDen! Here are direct links to the files.

Alert:
http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/2/3/1 ... 202004.mp3?

Attack:
http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/2/3/1 ... 202004.mp3?