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Siren
Smoke alarm
By Cori, November 17th, 2008 Alarm | Alert | annoying | Beep | loud | Siren | Smoke-alarm | Single Subject | Synthesized | 128 kBit/s | Mono 0:37 minutes (578.82 KB)
I was recording something completely different when the smoke alarm went off. So, makin' lemonade, and uploading it here!
Chainsaw - 12
By ezwa, November 12th, 2008 ambulance | branch | bump | chainsaw | cutting | Engine | Motor | Saw | sawing | Siren | tree | Characteristic | 128 kBit/s | Mono 1:27 minutes (1.34 MB)
Tree being cut in the neighbourhood.
Ambulance and plane passing by.
Chainsaw - 11
By ezwa, November 12th, 2008 ambulance | branch | bump | chainsaw | cutting | Engine | Motor | Saw | sawing | Siren | tree | Characteristic | 128 kBit/s | Mono 0:50 minutes (786.17 KB)
Tree being cut in city neighbourhood.
Ambulance passing by.
Tree branch falling off.
American police siren in Washington DC
By lezer, June 1st, 2008 Ambience | City | Distant | Night | Police | Police Siren | Siren | Soundscape | USA | Natural | 128 kBit/s | Mono 0:29 minutes (460.45 KB)
Police sirens on the streets of Washington DC, USA, heard from inside my apartment in Dupont Circle, in 2007.
Toy Siren Alarm
By Stephan, April 6th, 2008 Alarm | cheesy | Frequency | high | Oscillation | Pitch | Siren | toy | unnerving | unpleasant | Wave | Single Subject | Synthesized | Tone / Tune | 128 kBit/s | Stereo 0:20 minutes (320.04 KB)
Toy fire brigade car with a cheesy siren.
Siren
By mastermesh, March 27th, 2008 Alarm | Bird | Birds | Car | chirp | pattern | Siren | unknown bird | Single Subject | Natural | Synthesized | Tone / Tune | 160 kBit/s | Mono 0:07 minutes (109.64 KB)
A siren type sound. I am not sure if this was really a siren or a bird chirping that resembled a siren. Either way, it's a pretty interesting little bit of audio.
Alarm or Siren
By Stephan, July 18th, 2007 Alarm | Beep | Beeping | buzzing | Noise | Siren | Tone | Warning | Synthesized | 160 kBit/s | Stereo 0:10 minutes (200.55 KB)
Took a sinus. Distorted it. And made the volume shape a square-wave to make it "beep - beep - beep"
Remember that you can change pitch and speed to enhance the alarms sincerity.
Storm - New Hampshire
By Stephan, April 2nd, 2007 Accident | creepy | Siren | stormy | Wind | Other | MonoClick to play
1:16 minutes (595.31 KB)
Not as great quality because it was done on my ZenV, but this is what it sounded like outside in Keene NH tonight. Pretty stormy, and it sounds like someone got into an accident.
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