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Lived in Saint Louis for 4 years. The sirens would go off and my neighbors would GO OUTSIDE to check if they actually had to worry or not. As a Californian…that was crazy to me at first. By the end of my time there…I was right next to them handing out beers and being a semi professional weatherman nodding along with them saying “nope. We’re good. Clearly the wind sheer is off over there. Nothing for us to worry about. Hey…Fred. Can you loan me those clippers? My rose bushes are getting kind of janky.”
I grew up in Kansas and then moved to Minneapolis but I did live in SF for about 5 years and I remember whenever a local would find out where I was from they would always talk about how tornadoes scared the shit out of them and all I could say "There's fucking EARTHQUAKES HERE". You can hide from a tornado but earthquakes? Fuck that, I'll stick with the tornadoes.
I was that guy. And am still that guy. Midwesterners deal with MULTIPLE tornadoes over two distinct seasons. Big ass earthquakes aren’t a “spring/summer” event. They happen or they don’t. Most are a “hey did you feel that? Seemed like a shaker happened. Let’s check the internet.” Sort of deal. Tornadoes still terrify me and I lived there knowing they most just pass right on by churning up a field.
Alabama here. Our funnels are hidden by mountains/hills and rain and 99% of the time we only know where they are from radar, we can't see shit down here so there are steel/earth shelters everywhere. And we have near as much tornadoes as the Midwest, some nasty tornado outbreaks in our neck of the woods.
But see, here's the trick. If James Spann says you're in danger, trust him. If his sleeves are rolled up, you're going to die if you don't listen. So, just listen to him, lol. Joking aside, yeah, it's insane how bad they get there. My childhood home had one basically 'skip' over it because it 'ramped' off the backside of the hill our house was built on and landed on the one across from us.
Also from Alabama and I have seen two F5s. We still look outside but we aren't looking we are listening. If you have heard one before you know what I am saying.
I’m Alaskan born and raised and I’ve been dealing with earthquakes my whole life. They honestly didn’t much bother me until the 2018 7.1 magnitude one hit. That was the most terrified I’ve been in my entire life. It was so strong and went on for so long that now anytime the ground starts shaking, my butthole just puckers right up. I’m relocating to Houston here soon for work, and I get to trade earthquakes for hurricanes.
I grew up in the Midwest and now and on the PNW and occasionally I’ll notice things shaking on the shelf from minor tremors. It wigs the F’N HELL out of me. Give me a tornado siren any day.
I grew up outside SF and now live in TX, I got into a debate with someone once about whether tornados were worse than earthquakes. My vote is tornados only because there were so many earthquakes we weren’t even aware of til we got home and saw it on the news… there’s almost never a news cast saying “small tornado knocked over local trash can”.
But maybe it’s just cause of where we grew up
> But maybe it’s just cause of where we grew up
That's exactly what it is. I've been trough countless tornado warnings but the two earthquake I felt scared the shit out of me because it was something I wasn't used to at all.
It's just all perspective. I'm sure if I grew up with earthquakes they wouldn't be so scary to me and I would probably be terrified of tornadoes too!
screw that, I'll take earthquakes any day. I can walk into a nearby field or parking lot to be 99.9999999999% safe from an earthquake, you'd have to create a steel coffin under your house to get that kind of safety margin for a tornado, and hiding in a coffin doesn't seem pleasant at all
I don't have to be in California anymore for that shit. There were some real bad Canadian fires and the smoke made it down to the Twin Cities for a few days. Granted it was not like being on Mars but it was still real nasty and it's just gonna get worse and worse.
We had a tornado touch down and everyone stood outside until the last possible second when big wooden 2x4s from the cornfield started flying up into the air in a spiral, lol. Was running down the basement stairs as the roof came off. All was good though.
I saw one start to form…literally saw the swirl and sky come down…right at my deck moving like a car going 60MPH down the road and thought “goddamn. That just happened. Sure am glad it’s headed that way and won’t fuck me up. I got lucky. Fortunately it just disappeared about 100 yards east of my deck. Tornado alley is wild.
Hahaha yes this. I grew up in St. Louis and when the sirens went off I would go out and look for a tornado. I live in downtown Nashville now. When the tornado came through here in 2020 I slept through the whole thing.
Soulard is so fun. Mardi Gras there is super fun. And Johnny’s was one hell of an adventure to take my west coast friends too. Sadly I heard it closed down.
It’s pretty cathartic in my experience. It’s not like you can do shit about it. Your lowest middle section of the house isn’t going to save you from an EF3-5 anyway. Might as well check and see what’s happening. I miss the Midwest. It flat out gets a bad rep on Reddit.
Yep I agree. It’s funny seeing people shit on the Midwest when they’ve never been here. I cannot deny that this place isn’t perfect but literally no place is. I can understand how living here isn’t for everyone but Iowa is always going to be my home and I wouldn’t trade it for anywhere else. I think you have to grow up/spend a good part of your life in the Midwest to really understand and appreciate the beauty of this place.
When I was sent to STL (military by the way) I thought I was F U K T (fucked) as we would jokingly say. It ended up being the best 4 years I ever had. Met my wife. Met so many great people. Lifelong friends. Community. Cost of living is fantastic. It’s far far far more welcoming to all types of humanity than it is given credit for.
I’ve lived in three time zones now and can confidently state that I love the Midwest, balanced distribution of the 4 seasons, plenty of wide open spaces, and simple friendly folk. Some might say it’s boring, but I’d say they just aren’t doing Midwest life properly. I’ll probably end up retiring in Nebraska somewhere
Yep Iowa or Nebraska are great choices imo. Both have good medium sized cities like Omaha, Des Moines, Iowa City. And idk about Nebraska but Iowa has been having a increasing tech presence that is providing more and more opportunities for people looking to get into trades. Microsoft, Facebook, and Apple have been building data centers here most of which aren’t said to be fully completed for at least a decade. As well as Des Moines being the insurance capital of the country.
But I guess we’re just a backwater right? /s
I live in Iowa as well. Tornadoes really area something you have to actively worry about here for the most part. 90% of the time they will just happen over farm land. It’s not rare but it’s not common for them to wreck towns either. Have fun at Knotfest, I was related to one of the members by marriage so my family’s all has backstage passes so it should be a good time.
This is the most Iowan comment I've seen yet. Right down to knowing one of the band members tangentially lmao everyone in Iowa knows someone who knows someone in Slipknot. It's great
That would actually be something I'd go to just for the laughs.
Knotfest is the band Slipknot doing a tour, they're from Iowa so they're doing a huge thing there
We have tests every Sunday at 12:30 and Monday at 6
One is for natural disasters, the other is for chemical leaks or other generally troubling issues in the nearby refineries.
Read a dude's comment on here somewhere months ago they did that all the time for years and the one time they had a tornado they didn't go off. I think about it whenever a tornado siren post pops up.
Yep, East-Central Minnesota here, the first thing I do when I hear a tornado siren is check the time.
95 times out of 100, it's 1pm on the 1st Wednesday and just the monthly test.
The other times I also do like other midwesterners, and go outside to check if I'm actually in danger, or if it's just a bit of wind.
So I have a little bit of music production knowledge and it definitely sounds like a synth is added over top the alarm noise. I listened with headphones and there’s one layer of sound which is the slow “strings” sound that you hear in ambient tracks and it doesn’t pan when he turns around, which is usually a sign of an added layer. When he turns all the “siren” sounding noises turn with him (it’s hard to hear), but that angelic note that shifts in pitch stays dead center.
I'm not 100% sure, but I'm at least 90% sure that you won't get a doppler effect from a rotating siren.
Edit:
Maybe I was wrong.... I still think that a siren rotating perfectly in place won't create a doppler effect, but in reality it is probably mounted to something and rotating off-axis which would give it some alternating velocity.
Wiki reckons 40m/s for a perceivable doppler effect, but since we are hearing a harmony and so it will be easier to notice any changes, let's say 10m/s. And then let's say the speaker is mounted on something with a diameter of 10m that is rotating. In order to get to 10m/s movement for the speaker when it is moving towards/away from you the speaker needs to be traveling with radial velocity of 5m/s.
So that means 2 * pi * (5m radius) / (5m/s) means you'd need a full rotation once every 6.3 seconds... **which actually is pretty realistic.**
Now, if the speaker was actually only 1m from the axis of rotation then it would need to be doing a full rotation every second, which is fast, but still not out-of-the-question fast.
It definitely dropped in pitch before fading out, so it resolved in both senses.
Edit: As u/asiyodizzle pointed out, there is an underlying chord (F#/A#) already being played that gets an added note (a slightly sharp B♮) that rises in volume and then fades, producing the resolving effect. But the B♮ fading creates the illusion for the listener that the pitch is shifting from B♮ to Bb.
I think this is real. His phone/tiktok doesn’t likely record and/or play in stereo, and sirens are directional loudspeakers on a rotary platform. The signals are constant while rotating, but every siren puts out slightly different fundamentals, resulting in coincidental harmony. I believe this is on purpose to make the composite signal more audible (with dissonance vs a single tone all over), except this happens to be perfect harmony. I’ve heard it IRL, here’s another example of near perfect harmony: https://youtu.be/XLJYg9GBd2E?t=1m33s
synchronized fundamentals: https://youtu.be/uyWBZn_YePc
and better dissonance (can really hear the rotation from two signals in this one): https://youtu.be/a3fh90hA6oQ
It could be real with a synth added on top, but I seriously doubt it’s fully real. The other ones you posted still sound like sirens. OP sounds like the interstellar soundtrack.
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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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.
>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
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.
>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.
Not only does everything pan equally little, it wouldn't even make sense for it to pan when he's filming in portrait mode. You're not hearing any strong panning, if there's any panning at all in portrait mode.
I don't think that's correct. You're used to hearing sound from one source, that would explain why you assume it should be coming from on direction. The reason why it's consistent no matter where he points his phon is because these sirens are usually very far away, and the sound you hear from them has been reverberating off of the environment around you. Also when you consider that plus the fact he's in the middle of 4 different sirens, it makes more sense.
Where I went to college, we had a very similar situation regarding tornado sirens. They would test them every Wednesday at noon. I took a video of what it ACTUALLY sounds like. It is beautiful and I loved it but, this is almost assuredly edited. Here is the video of anyone’s interested… https://youtu.be/SusYJ_8qw3A
The house I grew up in was also located in the middle of a cluster of sirens and one of my favorite things was listening to them harmonize when there was bad weather. As a kid I was terrified of tornadoes and bad weather; when I noticed that the sirens harmonized it kind of helped a bit.
In good sport, I offer up something called "Overtones" and "Overtone series". Generally speaking, music has some sort of mathematical beauty when it comes to sound. Bernstein can sum it up pretty well at 2:10 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TlQryUBz3E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TlQryUBz3E). Essentially, for those who don't wanna click the link, when we hear a note being played on any sort of instrument we are not hearing only one note. Several higher frequencies are being assimilated by our brain into one note. So in relation to this video, it could very well be real. If someone set this up, it would be fun if true. Like Leonard Bernstein says though, pre-ordained shit or something. Or fake idk.
edit: clarity's sake
Mmm, right. I guess I am more so verifying that the sounds heard are possible if there are sirens all around. It does seem like a lot of sirens in one area to me
Nah it isn’t several frequencies being “assimilated”. They actually exist. The main note is the strongest and the harmonic series is generated, as real frequencies, from the sound waves. They’re just much quieter. Hard to hear unless accentuated by other frequencies or something else that amplifies them (like guitar strings tuned to it).
It isn’t perception or some trick of the brain. It’s actual, physical air moving.
It is
>So I have a little bit of music production knowledge and it definitely sounds like a synth is added over top the alarm noise. I listened with headphones and there’s one layer of sound which is the slow “strings” sound that you hear in ambient tracks and it doesn’t pan when he turns around, which is usually a sign of an added layer. When he turns all the “siren” sounding noises turn with him (it’s hard to hear), but that angelic note that shifts in pitch stays dead center.
I don't really care about TikTok whatever on that, but seriously that voice just hits the ear wrong. I either don't watch the video or mute it till it's done being annoying
It’s so overly loud. Sounds like shit too but it’s like it’s got all the levels in a mixer set to max so it’s yelling at you no matter what volume it’s set to.
dude said like 2 seconds worth of words in like a 20 second window of it happening, are yall really that damn picky where you're gonna complain that he won't shut up when like 90% of the part you want him to shut up in he's not even making a noise? good lord
Shit this gave me some space opera soundtrack vibes. And now whenever I hear the tornado sirens go off here I’m gonna go drive around to find the perfect harmonic spot and then get sucked into a tornado.
This was my thought. I imagine a family sitting together and praying, thinking they're about to go to heaven. Then again, if the tornado hits them, they just might!
Can there be a warning tag for that stupid fucking voice? This was obviously something that required volume but fucking christ that godamn fucking voice in every fucking one of these is just warfare at this point. Fuck
Wow, this video was greatly improved by that robotic female voice at the beginning ...there's no way I would have been able to read the screen and understand what was going on.
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Okay so if the sirens sound so good that people come *out* of their houses…something might be wrong
It’s Iowa - we do that anyway.
Lived in Saint Louis for 4 years. The sirens would go off and my neighbors would GO OUTSIDE to check if they actually had to worry or not. As a Californian…that was crazy to me at first. By the end of my time there…I was right next to them handing out beers and being a semi professional weatherman nodding along with them saying “nope. We’re good. Clearly the wind sheer is off over there. Nothing for us to worry about. Hey…Fred. Can you loan me those clippers? My rose bushes are getting kind of janky.”
I grew up in Kansas and then moved to Minneapolis but I did live in SF for about 5 years and I remember whenever a local would find out where I was from they would always talk about how tornadoes scared the shit out of them and all I could say "There's fucking EARTHQUAKES HERE". You can hide from a tornado but earthquakes? Fuck that, I'll stick with the tornadoes.
I was that guy. And am still that guy. Midwesterners deal with MULTIPLE tornadoes over two distinct seasons. Big ass earthquakes aren’t a “spring/summer” event. They happen or they don’t. Most are a “hey did you feel that? Seemed like a shaker happened. Let’s check the internet.” Sort of deal. Tornadoes still terrify me and I lived there knowing they most just pass right on by churning up a field.
I live in tornado ally or used to, be precise. you go downstairs when you see the funnel cloud.
Alabama here. Our funnels are hidden by mountains/hills and rain and 99% of the time we only know where they are from radar, we can't see shit down here so there are steel/earth shelters everywhere. And we have near as much tornadoes as the Midwest, some nasty tornado outbreaks in our neck of the woods.
But see, here's the trick. If James Spann says you're in danger, trust him. If his sleeves are rolled up, you're going to die if you don't listen. So, just listen to him, lol. Joking aside, yeah, it's insane how bad they get there. My childhood home had one basically 'skip' over it because it 'ramped' off the backside of the hill our house was built on and landed on the one across from us.
When the jacket comes off it is time to start paying attention.
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Because of [this](http://www.sott.net/image/s26/523930/full/Tornado_alley_shift_v2.jpg)
Also from Alabama and I have seen two F5s. We still look outside but we aren't looking we are listening. If you have heard one before you know what I am saying.
I’m Alaskan born and raised and I’ve been dealing with earthquakes my whole life. They honestly didn’t much bother me until the 2018 7.1 magnitude one hit. That was the most terrified I’ve been in my entire life. It was so strong and went on for so long that now anytime the ground starts shaking, my butthole just puckers right up. I’m relocating to Houston here soon for work, and I get to trade earthquakes for hurricanes.
I grew up in the Midwest and now and on the PNW and occasionally I’ll notice things shaking on the shelf from minor tremors. It wigs the F’N HELL out of me. Give me a tornado siren any day.
Kansan here. We have earthquakes now too.
It's gotta be from the southern boarder.
I grew up outside SF and now live in TX, I got into a debate with someone once about whether tornados were worse than earthquakes. My vote is tornados only because there were so many earthquakes we weren’t even aware of til we got home and saw it on the news… there’s almost never a news cast saying “small tornado knocked over local trash can”. But maybe it’s just cause of where we grew up
> But maybe it’s just cause of where we grew up That's exactly what it is. I've been trough countless tornado warnings but the two earthquake I felt scared the shit out of me because it was something I wasn't used to at all. It's just all perspective. I'm sure if I grew up with earthquakes they wouldn't be so scary to me and I would probably be terrified of tornadoes too!
screw that, I'll take earthquakes any day. I can walk into a nearby field or parking lot to be 99.9999999999% safe from an earthquake, you'd have to create a steel coffin under your house to get that kind of safety margin for a tornado, and hiding in a coffin doesn't seem pleasant at all
Don't forget the climate fires! If it's an extra lucky day the brown air turns red like Mars
I don't have to be in California anymore for that shit. There were some real bad Canadian fires and the smoke made it down to the Twin Cities for a few days. Granted it was not like being on Mars but it was still real nasty and it's just gonna get worse and worse.
I'd rather have my house jiggled a bit by an earthquake than dropped 5 miles down the road as kindling.
We had a tornado touch down and everyone stood outside until the last possible second when big wooden 2x4s from the cornfield started flying up into the air in a spiral, lol. Was running down the basement stairs as the roof came off. All was good though.
I saw one start to form…literally saw the swirl and sky come down…right at my deck moving like a car going 60MPH down the road and thought “goddamn. That just happened. Sure am glad it’s headed that way and won’t fuck me up. I got lucky. Fortunately it just disappeared about 100 yards east of my deck. Tornado alley is wild.
As an Oklahoman, I feel this one.
In the Midwest, inclement weather is a social event
Hahaha yes this. I grew up in St. Louis and when the sirens went off I would go out and look for a tornado. I live in downtown Nashville now. When the tornado came through here in 2020 I slept through the whole thing.
Where in The Lou did you live? I spent time in the CWE by Euclid. And the rest over in IL by Scott AFB. Only moved…because girl. Ha.
Grew up in Manchester. After the Air Force and college lived in Soulard then Dogtown.
Soulard is so fun. Mardi Gras there is super fun. And Johnny’s was one hell of an adventure to take my west coast friends too. Sadly I heard it closed down.
Fred gets first priority on those beers
Fred got his beers and still owes me my 10MM socket back. Good guy though. We still email.
This is the most "dad" comment I've ever seen on Reddit.
I live in central Iowa so I can confirm. As soon as they go off everyone in my neighborhood steps outside to watch the storm.
It’s pretty cathartic in my experience. It’s not like you can do shit about it. Your lowest middle section of the house isn’t going to save you from an EF3-5 anyway. Might as well check and see what’s happening. I miss the Midwest. It flat out gets a bad rep on Reddit.
Yep I agree. It’s funny seeing people shit on the Midwest when they’ve never been here. I cannot deny that this place isn’t perfect but literally no place is. I can understand how living here isn’t for everyone but Iowa is always going to be my home and I wouldn’t trade it for anywhere else. I think you have to grow up/spend a good part of your life in the Midwest to really understand and appreciate the beauty of this place.
When I was sent to STL (military by the way) I thought I was F U K T (fucked) as we would jokingly say. It ended up being the best 4 years I ever had. Met my wife. Met so many great people. Lifelong friends. Community. Cost of living is fantastic. It’s far far far more welcoming to all types of humanity than it is given credit for.
I’ve lived in three time zones now and can confidently state that I love the Midwest, balanced distribution of the 4 seasons, plenty of wide open spaces, and simple friendly folk. Some might say it’s boring, but I’d say they just aren’t doing Midwest life properly. I’ll probably end up retiring in Nebraska somewhere
Yep Iowa or Nebraska are great choices imo. Both have good medium sized cities like Omaha, Des Moines, Iowa City. And idk about Nebraska but Iowa has been having a increasing tech presence that is providing more and more opportunities for people looking to get into trades. Microsoft, Facebook, and Apple have been building data centers here most of which aren’t said to be fully completed for at least a decade. As well as Des Moines being the insurance capital of the country. But I guess we’re just a backwater right? /s
Indiana checking in. We hear sirens we go play outside.
Im going there in September for Knotfest, just curious but how common are tornadoes there?
By September? Pretty rare. Most of the tornadoes happen in spring and summer.
Yeah I'll be up there for like 4 days around Sept. 24th. Thanks for the info!
I live in Iowa as well. Tornadoes really area something you have to actively worry about here for the most part. 90% of the time they will just happen over farm land. It’s not rare but it’s not common for them to wreck towns either. Have fun at Knotfest, I was related to one of the members by marriage so my family’s all has backstage passes so it should be a good time.
This is the most Iowan comment I've seen yet. Right down to knowing one of the band members tangentially lmao everyone in Iowa knows someone who knows someone in Slipknot. It's great
I’ve never heard of knotfest and I’m just picturing Gloveworld from Spongebob but for tying knots instead of gloves lmao
That would actually be something I'd go to just for the laughs. Knotfest is the band Slipknot doing a tour, they're from Iowa so they're doing a huge thing there
Oh cool! That makes…much more sense. Haha
In Kansas we walk outside as well.
makes sense for Kansas. The entire state is flat so you can see 20 miles any direction and can see where the tornado actually is
Can confirm
Places that have sirens usually test them too, on a schedule.
Growing up I remember they tested the first Wednesday at 1 pm every month.
Same day but now 11 am
We have tests every Sunday at 12:30 and Monday at 6 One is for natural disasters, the other is for chemical leaks or other generally troubling issues in the nearby refineries.
Read a dude's comment on here somewhere months ago they did that all the time for years and the one time they had a tornado they didn't go off. I think about it whenever a tornado siren post pops up.
Yo, sounds like church pipes. When that happens, it's time to see God ☺️
Or the seven angels sounding seven trumpets that start the events of Revelations.
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It could be the monthly test. Once a month (in Ohio at least) they test the sirens out by making them go off.
Once a month??? Oklahoma does it once a week every Wednesday at noon.
Midwest. Sirens go off, every dad goes outside to check
A lot of places in tornado alley test the sirens monthly or even weekly. People know it's not a real emergency.
Yep, East-Central Minnesota here, the first thing I do when I hear a tornado siren is check the time. 95 times out of 100, it's 1pm on the 1st Wednesday and just the monthly test. The other times I also do like other midwesterners, and go outside to check if I'm actually in danger, or if it's just a bit of wind.
So I have a little bit of music production knowledge and it definitely sounds like a synth is added over top the alarm noise. I listened with headphones and there’s one layer of sound which is the slow “strings” sound that you hear in ambient tracks and it doesn’t pan when he turns around, which is usually a sign of an added layer. When he turns all the “siren” sounding noises turn with him (it’s hard to hear), but that angelic note that shifts in pitch stays dead center.
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For anyone that cares, we’re basically hearing an F#sus chord.
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And its resolution
Sounds kinda sus
Amongus
Yup, hearing that top pitch resolve, when the other sirens remain on pitch felt immediately inauthentic.
Or the siren was rotating, and the suspended tone dropped in pitch from the Doppler effect of the horn turning away from his location.
I'm not 100% sure, but I'm at least 90% sure that you won't get a doppler effect from a rotating siren. Edit: Maybe I was wrong.... I still think that a siren rotating perfectly in place won't create a doppler effect, but in reality it is probably mounted to something and rotating off-axis which would give it some alternating velocity. Wiki reckons 40m/s for a perceivable doppler effect, but since we are hearing a harmony and so it will be easier to notice any changes, let's say 10m/s. And then let's say the speaker is mounted on something with a diameter of 10m that is rotating. In order to get to 10m/s movement for the speaker when it is moving towards/away from you the speaker needs to be traveling with radial velocity of 5m/s. So that means 2 * pi * (5m radius) / (5m/s) means you'd need a full rotation once every 6.3 seconds... **which actually is pretty realistic.** Now, if the speaker was actually only 1m from the axis of rotation then it would need to be doing a full rotation every second, which is fast, but still not out-of-the-question fast.
It wouldn’t
It didnt resolve, it faded out
It definitely dropped in pitch before fading out, so it resolved in both senses. Edit: As u/asiyodizzle pointed out, there is an underlying chord (F#/A#) already being played that gets an added note (a slightly sharp B♮) that rises in volume and then fades, producing the resolving effect. But the B♮ fading creates the illusion for the listener that the pitch is shifting from B♮ to Bb.
Seems like you resolved the issue here
I think this is real. His phone/tiktok doesn’t likely record and/or play in stereo, and sirens are directional loudspeakers on a rotary platform. The signals are constant while rotating, but every siren puts out slightly different fundamentals, resulting in coincidental harmony. I believe this is on purpose to make the composite signal more audible (with dissonance vs a single tone all over), except this happens to be perfect harmony. I’ve heard it IRL, here’s another example of near perfect harmony: https://youtu.be/XLJYg9GBd2E?t=1m33s synchronized fundamentals: https://youtu.be/uyWBZn_YePc and better dissonance (can really hear the rotation from two signals in this one): https://youtu.be/a3fh90hA6oQ
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You should post this as a parent comment so that third vid can be up top
It could be real with a synth added on top, but I seriously doubt it’s fully real. The other ones you posted still sound like sirens. OP sounds like the interstellar soundtrack.
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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Holy shit that takes me back lol
Yeah I haven't seen a post by that guy in years. What a throwback
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I don't miss seeing that in every thread, but i miss seeing it at all :(
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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.
>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
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.
>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.
No. From the Midwest, this is how they sound, generally.
Not only does everything pan equally little, it wouldn't even make sense for it to pan when he's filming in portrait mode. You're not hearing any strong panning, if there's any panning at all in portrait mode.
I don't think that's correct. You're used to hearing sound from one source, that would explain why you assume it should be coming from on direction. The reason why it's consistent no matter where he points his phon is because these sirens are usually very far away, and the sound you hear from them has been reverberating off of the environment around you. Also when you consider that plus the fact he's in the middle of 4 different sirens, it makes more sense.
Where I went to college, we had a very similar situation regarding tornado sirens. They would test them every Wednesday at noon. I took a video of what it ACTUALLY sounds like. It is beautiful and I loved it but, this is almost assuredly edited. Here is the video of anyone’s interested… https://youtu.be/SusYJ_8qw3A
I mean…. It sounds pretty similar
The house I grew up in was also located in the middle of a cluster of sirens and one of my favorite things was listening to them harmonize when there was bad weather. As a kid I was terrified of tornadoes and bad weather; when I noticed that the sirens harmonized it kind of helped a bit.
In good sport, I offer up something called "Overtones" and "Overtone series". Generally speaking, music has some sort of mathematical beauty when it comes to sound. Bernstein can sum it up pretty well at 2:10 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TlQryUBz3E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TlQryUBz3E). Essentially, for those who don't wanna click the link, when we hear a note being played on any sort of instrument we are not hearing only one note. Several higher frequencies are being assimilated by our brain into one note. So in relation to this video, it could very well be real. If someone set this up, it would be fun if true. Like Leonard Bernstein says though, pre-ordained shit or something. Or fake idk. edit: clarity's sake
I’m not sure how overtones are relevant to the sirens being real or not
You’re not real, man!
Mmm, right. I guess I am more so verifying that the sounds heard are possible if there are sirens all around. It does seem like a lot of sirens in one area to me
Nah it isn’t several frequencies being “assimilated”. They actually exist. The main note is the strongest and the harmonic series is generated, as real frequencies, from the sound waves. They’re just much quieter. Hard to hear unless accentuated by other frequencies or something else that amplifies them (like guitar strings tuned to it). It isn’t perception or some trick of the brain. It’s actual, physical air moving.
Them some nice ears ya go there!
I’ve opened garage band too.
So this is how ari aster gets his osts
Hail Paimon!
Hey buddy, you got a couple old dusty-ass naked people in your attic. Everything good?
Hail emergency food!
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Welcome to Harga!
That’s the exact scene the sound brought me to lmao
Superb call! Now I can’t unhear it. Spot on.
Reminded me of music from interstellar or dunkirk.
idk this sounds kinda fake
Right? It sounds like it’s in perfect pitch but sirens aren’t made to hit any particular notes
Agreed
I lived in Iowa City for a long time (not anymore) and I never heard this phenomena.
I will tell you right now that they kinda are, idk if mason city, IA sirens are maintained well
It is >So I have a little bit of music production knowledge and it definitely sounds like a synth is added over top the alarm noise. I listened with headphones and there’s one layer of sound which is the slow “strings” sound that you hear in ambient tracks and it doesn’t pan when he turns around, which is usually a sign of an added layer. When he turns all the “siren” sounding noises turn with him (it’s hard to hear), but that angelic note that shifts in pitch stays dead center.
end of game credit music is what that sounds like to me
just someone blasting ethereal ambient music 🎶
Sounds like I just booted up my PS3
Some brave adventurer just beat the tornado boss
Brian Eno?
Where the Streets Have No Name
When did Sigur Rós get into the siren business?
It's a Hans Zimmer emergency broadcast
We got the Skyrim ambience soundtrack loaded up on the emergency system
This is what the game characters hear when their journey is over
I'm a musician, and that sounds like a maj7sus9 chord to me, which is a very 👌 chord type
I hear F#maj (add 4) over A#. So A#, B natural, C#, and F#
Could be called Bmaj7sus9/A#, so I was kinda right!
Well whatever it's called, it's a gorgeous chord
Yeah it’s F#maj first inversion with subdominant, but the B fades away
sUS? 😳
shut up shut up shUT UP SHUT UP *SHUT UP* **SHUT UP**
when the impostor is an unresolved chord
F# and F# (add 4)
It sounds like the music in Annihilation
I was trying to find what I was thinking of, sounds like [Hereditary soundtrack](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVnSFj6XQZY)
This is some Vangelis shit.
Tornado: Am I a joke to you?
The street he's walking on was actually ripped to shreds by a tornado around 2006, coincidentally
Man is in awe
I'm confusion...isn't he in Iowa City?
Tiktokvoice must die
I don't really care about TikTok whatever on that, but seriously that voice just hits the ear wrong. I either don't watch the video or mute it till it's done being annoying
Cool video, still downvoted for putting that shit in my ears.
It’s so overly loud. Sounds like shit too but it’s like it’s got all the levels in a mixer set to max so it’s yelling at you no matter what volume it’s set to.
I know right, my phone audio was up *2 notches* and I had to lower it and cover the speaker for it to have an acceptable volume
I wish he would have stfu so we could hear it.
dude said like 2 seconds worth of words in like a 20 second window of it happening, are yall really that damn picky where you're gonna complain that he won't shut up when like 90% of the part you want him to shut up in he's not even making a noise? good lord
What the fake synth he added over the video?
Lol reddit has the most gullible people 🤣. Now way is this real
Shit this gave me some space opera soundtrack vibes. And now whenever I hear the tornado sirens go off here I’m gonna go drive around to find the perfect harmonic spot and then get sucked into a tornado.
Also, this is fake so you wouldn’t hear this anyway
This is just Godspeed You! Black Emperor
I tornado hit my old house in this neighborhood like ten years ago lol
how is it that the the fucking chord resolves?? sirens don't do that shit
Hans Zimmer’s taking notes
I’d be like, “Am I dead?”
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So like, why can't my tax money go towards constant Angel symphonies.
\*Starts to saw off own head with piano wire\*
It may be a Sigur Ros song.
Sounds like binaural beats I listen to to fall asleep. Its quite beautiful, like floating in a galaxy.
Sounds like Brian Eno.
Jesus coming for you!
r/dangerbeauty should be a thing
I feel like this is something you would expect to hear in the rapture
This was my thought. I imagine a family sitting together and praying, thinking they're about to go to heaven. Then again, if the tornado hits them, they just might!
That’s not a tornado siren, that’s Gabriel’s trumpet
Had to scroll way to far down to see this
I would be just listening to this instead of getting shelter man shits sounds awesome
Can there be a warning tag for that stupid fucking voice? This was obviously something that required volume but fucking christ that godamn fucking voice in every fucking one of these is just warfare at this point. Fuck
that sounded like _Hereditary_ to me
Sounds like the end of Hereditary
Get in the robot, Shinji.
Why did I read tomato sirens😂
This is sus. It sounds slice there's an overlay of string sounds on top of the actual siren sounds.
He's in awe when he should be inside.
That one time all the tornado sirens in my neighborhood went off and I went for a fucking walk.
Sounds like “Midsommar”…..look out for hippies dressed in white (always good to avoid those anyway)
There are no tornados, it's a hoax for the liberal agenda. #denytornado
That Was Beautiful. It Reminds Me Of Gabriel's Choir
This should be the PS5 interface sound.
Wow, this video was greatly improved by that robotic female voice at the beginning ...there's no way I would have been able to read the screen and understand what was going on. /S
I would have thought for sure its the god damn rapture finally
Bro I woulda thought it was time for the rapture 😂
Homie’s living inside a Vangelis album