Ridiculous car audio project

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Brian Frost

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I am building a racecar of sorts for a redbull like event. The car will be designed with a costume of ride of the valkaries. Think apocalypse now. Trying to keep this cheap but the idea is to make the outside look like a huey helecopter and hide speakers in the panels. I want it to be loud and efficient, sound quality is of much lower importance. what about using horns like at a high school football stadium? what other speaker ideas might be fun for this project.

Its important that they be cheap, and loud.
Thanks for your ideas
 
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that might work. we are entering a car in 24 hours of Lemons, a play on Le Mans. Its cheap cars racing for 24 hours.

Have you ever run audio through the sirens? what kind of power are they looking for? Impedance?
Im interested.
 
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Bennett Prescott said:
Hey Brian,

We have what actually goes on helicopters. It's loud and efficient (in the voice band). Also sounds good. Not cheap! 8O~8-O~:shock:
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I might be reading the OP wrong, but I think he's looking for speakers that will be used to simulate the sound of a helicopter flying, not a helicopter making announcements.

To the OP. How about a few stadium/train station 70v horns and an old-style folded horn mid bass like a Peavey FH1? This in combination with a Waves MaxxBCL processor may work.
 
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kristianjohnsen said:
I might be reading the OP wrong, but I think he's looking for speakers that will be used to simulate the sound of a helicopter flying, not a helicopter making announcements.

To the OP. How about a few stadium/train station 70v horns and an old-style folded horn mid bass like a Peavey FH1? This in combination with a Waves MaxxBCL processor may work.
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Actually we are playing Ride of the Valkaries from a reel to reel a la Apocalypse Now helicopter/surfing scene from a car dressed up as a helicopter racing around a track for 24 hours. Sound will be outside the car for the entertainment or displeasure of everyone else.
 
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Brian Frost said:
Actually we are playing Ride of the Valkaries from a reel to reel a la Apocalypse Now helicopter/surfing scene from a car dressed up as a helicopter racing around a track for 24 hours. Sound will be outside the car for the entertainment or displeasure of everyone else.
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Ah, gotcha. I thought you wanted to simulate the "rotors-flapping-Vietnam-War-movie-style"-sound.
 
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Hi Brian,

How about one of these options? They look fairly inexpensive and simple. They have auxiliary inputs, and I'd suggest a cheap MP3 player so you can avoid skipping CD's under the vibration and abuse of racing conditions.

https://www.audiolinks.com/AmpliVoxSoundCruisers.shtml



If you ever need mil-spec, high-output, and can drop big $ on it:

Technomad Vehicle Mounted PA Systems | Mobile Vehicle Sound Systems | Paging Systems for training, crowd control, PSYOPS



If you want to search for more options, these types of PA's are known as "loud hailer" systems.
 
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I love the links! tho even $600 is too much for this particular one day project. I might have sourced some old 70v paging horns that a local military installation used for outdoor paging over a large area which are now sitting idle. Will try to rip the transformers off and see how they sound.

We are using a reel to reel for playback btw!
Frost

Jason Glass said:
Hi Brian,

How about one of these options? They look fairly inexpensive and simple. They have auxiliary inputs, and I'd suggest a cheap MP3 player so you can avoid skipping CD's under the vibration and abuse of racing conditions.

https://www.audiolinks.com/AmpliVoxSoundCruisers.shtml



If you ever need mil-spec, high-output, and can drop big $ on it:

Technomad Vehicle Mounted PA Systems | Mobile Vehicle Sound Systems | Paging Systems for training, crowd control, PSYOPS



If you want to search for more options, these types of PA's are known as "loud hailer" systems.
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Brian Frost said:
I love the links! tho even $600 is too much for this particular one day project. I might have sourced some old 70v paging horns that a local military installation used for outdoor paging over a large area which are now sitting idle. Will try to rip the transformers off and see how they sound.
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be sure to double check if they need capacitors or an HPF before hooking them up!

Jason
 
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