Comments on: A Brief Tour of Automotive Sound Sources https://designingsound.org/2014/07/08/a-brief-tour-of-automotive-sound-sources/ Art and technique of sound design Fri, 15 Dec 2017 00:25:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.9 By: Paul https://designingsound.org/2014/07/08/a-brief-tour-of-automotive-sound-sources/#comment-553814 Fri, 15 Dec 2017 00:25:01 +0000 https://designingsound.org/?p=27650#comment-553814 In reply to Paul Chancellor.

Buy a cheap little SPL (Sound Pressure Level) meter and have a passenger point it about the cabin whilst you drive to try and locate the source (or at least the direction it’s coming from). My Jaguar X-Type had a terrible speed related vibration sound because the guy who serviced it hadn’t properly refitted the windscreen valance (the plastic bit between the windscreen glass and the engine bay).

]]> By: Paul Chancellor https://designingsound.org/2014/07/08/a-brief-tour-of-automotive-sound-sources/#comment-537318 Wed, 21 Jun 2017 17:14:36 +0000 https://designingsound.org/?p=27650#comment-537318 Shaun,
My Acura MDX. new 2017, has a noise that sounds like a resonance set up by wind at high speeds. It is quite annoying.

Acura has changed tires with no effect.

Please advise who can find the noise.
Paul

]]> By: Turbocharging and its effect on our soundscape | Designing Sound https://designingsound.org/2014/07/08/a-brief-tour-of-automotive-sound-sources/#comment-252547 Fri, 01 Aug 2014 04:29:30 +0000 https://designingsound.org/?p=27650#comment-252547 […] the previous post discussed, there are 3 primary sources of sound in an engine – the sound of the air coming […]

]]> By: David https://designingsound.org/2014/07/08/a-brief-tour-of-automotive-sound-sources/#comment-244386 Fri, 11 Jul 2014 12:39:07 +0000 https://designingsound.org/?p=27650#comment-244386 That was an excellent article! Covered just about every noise source I can think of for the pieces needed for car sound reproduction in games. Regarding exhaust design and its effect on sound, I find the Mercedes-McLaren SLR to be the most fascinating piece of engineering. The exhaust system itself is extremely short, as the exhaust exits the car just behind the front wheels. Yet somehow, the engineers managed to muffle the supercharged V8 to sound like a single-cylinder motorcycle. You can get a flavor of the sound here: http://youtu.be/4C4ln1dWE8A?t=1m33s – a very strong “pulsing” or “fluttering” pattern. Out of something that looks like this: http://fastamg.com/mercedes-benz/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Mercedes-Benz-SLR-McLaren-Engine.jpg

Great kick-off for “Vehicle Month!”

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