I’m putting together a music trivia night and need to warn the participants that the track they are answering questions about, name of song, artists etc is about to end and the net track start.
Okay, so what am I actually doing. I’m playing cut down (time wise) music into a music period and a silent period. total time 1 min to 1 min 30. there will be a sort sample of contemporary music followed by a period of silence. 5 seconds before the silent period ends and the music period of the next track begins.
I want a tone, I’ve been playing with chirp but can’t find one I like. It needs to be heard in a small public gathering, Private room at a restaurant over general chatter. I don’t want something too sharp or grating but it still needs to be easily audible.
Any tips on a generate tool and settings that will help me accomplish this task. there’s a fair few questions / tracks and it will be playing over a reasonable quality mains powered Bluetooth ‘party’ speaker. so volume and reproduction shouldn’t be an issue.
The track editing has been very simple, but I’m a little lost how to get the desired effects out of the software and don’t really understand a good chunk of the terminology in the tool tips.
Any and all help appreciated. otherwise I’ll keep plugging away and experimenting in my down time.
Did you try generating a tone? Try a square wave at 300Hz. Just experiment to find something that’s harsh enough to be heard but not too annoying.
A square wave has harmonics so it’s easier to hear than a sine wave at low or mid frequencies.
Lower frequencies will sound more mellow and mid-high frequencies will sound more harsh. Our ears are most-sensitive around 2kHz and very-high and very low frequencies are harder to hear, and “harder” to reproduce with a speaker.
I’ve got a few. one kind of sounds like a ‘pop’ kind of like it but not sure.
I’ll experiment with some square wave tones. most of what I’ve generated so far are short tapered chirps but I’m open to other suggestions.
Yeah guys. I did ‘fiddle’ with a whole heap of tones and chirps, but in the end I went with a random mp3 I found, a number of seconds of loud ticking followed by a 3/4 second generic buzzer. I thought that an extended audio que was better for a noisy room than a single blip.
when I have more time I’ll tinker with the manual generation stuff but for now the tick-tock then buzzer wins out for clarity and simplicity.
any other hints welcome at a later date and I’ll keep half an eye on this forum from time to time. I may even mix and match next time I’m doing this.