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Re: Lo-Fi ATC

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Post by someweirdperson »

sandos wrote: post #61

This is interesting, I could hear controller and pilot talking. But they had some sort of stereo-separation! Pilot was to the left and tower to the right. Thats not possible, is it? I assume the audio is mono in real life.

All the x.y multi-speaker configurations are missing a "top" speaker. Why hasn't anyone invented that yet?

For the recording, with the ground transmitter stationary, it could be separated by one receiver shilded to look at only the ground transmitter, and a second omni-directional one for anything flying.

Re: Lo-Fi ATC

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Post by someweirdperson »

ace2358 wrote: post #17

Brilliant. I’m someone who has lofi playing most of the day at work or at home in the calmer times. I use an old JBL Bluetooth speaker that i found on the side of the road. Must be 10 years old. It distorts a bit at 75% volume which I like. The whole thing sounds lofi and beaten up. I loaded this site and it just naturally fit in. I got Hawaii airport. I just felt like I was in the tower. The music was just how I was…

The chilling to lofi and boring radio messages may suddenly be interruped by "mayday, mayday, mayday, ...". Be prepared.

Re: Lo-Fi ATC

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Post by etskinner »

someweirdperson wrote: post #71
sandos wrote: post #61

This is interesting, I could hear controller and pilot talking. But they had some sort of stereo-separation! Pilot was to the left and tower to the right. Thats not possible, is it? I assume the audio is mono in real life.

All the x.y multi-speaker configurations are missing a "top" speaker. Why hasn't anyone invented that yet? For the recording, with the ground transmitter stationary, it could be separated by one receiver shilded to look at only the ground transmitter, and a second omni-directional one for anything flying.

The human ear doesn't really have the ability to determine the height of a source reliably, only left/right. A better effect might be putting the audio out of phase on left/right, which usually has the effect of making it difficult to hear where the sound is coming from (it kind of makes it sound like it's omnidirectional like you mentioned)

Re: Lo-Fi ATC

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Post by 3guk »

This is fantastic- somehow works so perfectly as background noise for working in my home office.

Re: Lo-Fi ATC

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Post by samuba »

pjerem wrote: post #52
reidjs wrote: post #14

If you like this you might like the song Contact by daft punk https://open.spotify.com/track/2KHRENHQzTIQ001nlP9Gdc

Ah ! This album ! I was a huge fan of Daft Punk and I bought that disc day one. Well, I totally hated it when I first listened to it. It was probably too different from their previous work. Still, I listened it again, not that terrible. Again, actually pretty cool. Again, incredible. And after multiple listenings, I finally accepted that, at least to me, it was just a masterpiece and I totally missed it. And now, alr…

This is exactly how this album unfolded for me too

Re: Lo-Fi ATC

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Post by noncovalence »

efm wrote: post #11
rx_tx wrote: post #9

This reminds me of SomaFM's 1033 which plays music overlaid with SF public safety radio traffic. [1]: https://somafm.com/player/#/now-playing/sf1033

It reminds me more of SomaFM's Mission Control[1], which plays music overlaid with NASA mission audio. [1] https://somafm.com/missioncontrol/

For anyone who enjoyed that one, I can also recommend Public Service Broadcasting's The Race for Space [1] which does something similar.

[1] https://publicservicebroadcasting.bandcamp.com/album/the-rac...

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