Sound Effects

[Tankbear]

Can anyone point me in a direction where I can download WW2 sound effects?

Thinking of loading into a MP3 player with some speakers and hiding in a building in the battle field to add effect.

[wibblywobbly]

I have loads that I have downloaded from various places. The problem with the free stuff is that it isn't brilliant quality, but it does the job. If you just type:

Free MP3 war sounds

into Google you will get loads of places, eg http://soundbible.com/tags-war.html , you may to search around a bit for WW2 sounds, but there is plenty out there to choose from.

Rob

[Tankbear]

I tried that but found isolated sound effects or recordings of news announcements etc.

I found some clips on YT which are 3-5 minutes long so might use some of them and have them playing on a random loop.

Ian.

[wibblywobbly]

The trick is to download a whole bunch of sounds, eg machine guns, artillery, tanks, aircraft etc, then load them into something like Audacity. Link several together, then copy that and keep pasting it on the end, until it becomes as long as you want it.

You can then create another track, add intermittent sounds, explosions etc.

Then save all the tracks together as a single sound file, and you will have a continuous sound file of a warzone.

In this clip all of the sounds are playing on my Stug, I simply added them to the turret control sound file. This way all I had to do was flick the stick sideways and start a random file playing. The Elmod can take 6 turret rotation sound files, and they can be as big as I want, so seeing as it doesn't have a turret it was a neat platform to bring battlefield sounds onto a battlefield.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaAQkh_oCw8

or this one, but skip to the 2:00 minute mark.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY1TpuWIfpk


Rob

[Edwin]

Hi Tankbear,

I know not which sound module you're using. I build my tank the Beier sound module for which there are many sounds which you can download here also.

http://www.beier-electronic.de/modellba ... 9350012294

From these many sounds, it is also possible to craft you a sound file for ElMod, said in our experience is not easy but, but still easier to cut out the sound from movies.

regards Edwin

[stug 85]

Hi ian at the last meet we had loads of sound effects on a disc downloaded by dave we were playing them in garys car full blast airraid sirens and tanks driving and lots of gunfire

[Tankbear]

Hi Tankbear,

I know not which sound module you're using. I build my tank the Beier sound module for which there are many sounds which you can download here also.

http://www.beier-electronic.de/modellba ... 9350012294

From these many sounds, it is also possible to craft you a sound file for ElMod, said in our experience is not easy but, but still easier to cut out the sound from movies.

regards Edwin

Thanks for the link Edwin. I’m running IBU2 which is similar to ElMod sound structure so will be useful to make some custom sound sets.

Ian.

[Tankbear]

Hi ian at the last meet we had loads of sound effects on a disc downloaded by dave we were playing them in garys car full blast airraid sirens and tanks driving and lots of gunfire

Interesting. I might bring my laptop to the next meet I come to so a can get a copy and load onto the MP3 player.

Ian.

[stug 85]

I think gary was driving home with the tank engine noises turned right up

[Tankbear]

Here's my setup with a quick mp3 from YT