How to Post A Sound Clip of You Shooting

[Z-man]

WITHOUT STEALING IT.

I personally like the web resource VersionTracker.com

[AGDlover]

wow thanks i was allways wondering how they did it

[GoatBoy]

Don't shoot a cocker!!! Ok well if you must then take a few shots spaced out so that you can determine what the sound signature looks like. Because the back block of the autococker cracks back just a moment after the marker fires, high speed sound testing can be a bit more difficult.

What I've done is taken a sound clip and slowed it down. Once you've slowed it down, say, 50%, it's much easier to distinguish the shots, at least audibly. Just gotta slow the ol' sample down so that the gray matter can run its pattern matching.

The best way would be to get the sound clip of one shot, and then use it as a matching filter. In fact, I was going to say something about matlab... but it appears Python has modules for .wav file reading as well as something for performing a convolution...

2- Back 15 years ago, sound editing was like doing CG in movies like Lord of the Rings and you had to buy nice pricey sound cards to work with stuff that the Bargain Bob’s PC can do 10x faster. In addition you can find cheap or free sound editing software WITHOUT STEALING IT.

I personally like the web resource VersionTracker.com. This site keeps an updated and accurate log of the majority of the applications, utilities, and patches released for the Mac/PC OS. You can simply do a search for “sound editing” and look through the list.

You seem to be hesistant to name an application.

I'll name one. I use Audacity. Free, and available for Linux, Windows, and MacOS X.

[RT pRo AuToMaG]

Nice writeup zman, now I know how to find bps of videos without asking you! (BTW, thanks again for doing that)

[Z-man]

What I've done is taken a sound clip and slowed it down. Once you've slowed it down, say, 50%, it's much easier to distinguish the shots, at least audibly. Just gotta slow the ol' sample down so that the gray matter can run its pattern matching.

Or simply zoom in untill its very obvious as to what you are looking at. None the less the point is simply that cockers are the least nice to sound test as most other sound signatures are simple and don't make you think

You seem to be hesistant to name an application.

I'll name one. I use Audacity. Free, and available for Linux, Windows, and MacOS X.

I did not name one as I honestly don't know what the good free ones are today. I use BIAS Peak which is not something most people want to invest in so I did not list it. Thanks for listing one.

[Carbon]

+ your the man zman!

[blackdragunsblood]

also another way my buddy did it,

if you have some nice camera equiment and ways to slow the video on your comp and stuff you can zoom in on the end of the barrel and then with your pretty expensive camera equipment record it and make sure you have a fast recording speed on it and then you can take it and slow it down on the computer and slow it down and watch it and count out every shot. sometimes you get some cool pictures of paint breaking out of the barrel and really cool pictures of barrel flashes. this method can take some money if you you want to be really accurate. but it is another way.

[Z-man]

Well it better be a high speed camera because high end or cheapo high-8 handycam systems ALL RUN 29.97fps meaning that even around 18 bps you may not get all the shots recorded. Digitally slowing the film down won't create any additional frames and video software that will "interpolate" and add frames to keep the tracks smooth cannot generate some shot if its not recorded.

Yes it's another way but I would say not as accurate and a lot more trouble.

[Z-man]

Bumping this as I got several questions about this topic last night.

[MoeMag]

Thanks!

I have been wanting to post this for a while...
I will let you all count



From my gun...

[PBCapo]

holy 23 bps! were you just bouncing it like a mofo?? input pressure??

[Z-man]

holy 23 bps! were you just bouncing it like a mofo?? input pressure??

This is what we call rapid-fire. Crank up the input pressure and off you go.

I wrote up the definitive "how to" on this subject on my site so I would not have to type it out each time... among other things.

The Complete Guide on How to Rapid-Fire

Unless you start doing some work to your air system, about 20-25bps is about the most you can coax out of your setup. Then again, who is going to stick their face out for a 20+ bps stream?

BTW MoeMag- I am curious if you read my site info and basically set up your marker based off that? I see you have a tasty Max-Flo and a Halo setup. It doesn't get much better than that.

[PBCapo]

This is what we call rapid-fire. Crank up the input pressure and off you go.

I wrote up the definitive "how to" on this subject on my site so I would not have to type it out each time... among other things.

The Complete Guide on How to Rapid-Fire

Unless you start doing some work to your air system, about 20-25bps is about the most you can coax out of your setup. Then again, who is going to stick their face out for a 20+ bps stream?

BTW MoeMag- I am curious if you read my site info and basically set up your marker based off that? I see you have a tasty Max-Flo and a Halo setup. It doesn't get much better than that.

oh don't worry z i've seen all of that....you're ridiculous in the best possible way

[Glickman]

Nice post Z-man!

i found audacity pretty user friendly (and free )


where have you been anyways?

dont tell me WoW released its grip on you

[Z-man]

...dont tell me WoW released its grip on you

Actually I had to rip myself away from the game. I went nutz on that game... ~135 days played on my hunter in full tier 2.... ya I had to escape from it.