The Siren Board

Remember those klaxon-like alarms inside Imperial warships in the Star Wars movies, the ones that sounded like a cross between a Benjamin naval klaxon and a ewe in heat? I finally found one and converted it into low (standard) and high-pitch (Episode IV) files for your enjoyment. I'm using one as a ringtone! If only there were a real electromechanical alarm that sounded like this.

http://media.putfile.com/Star-Wars-type ... -low-pitch

http://media.putfile.com/Star-Wars-type ... high-pitch

Thanks for posting those. As a big SW fan, I've always thought those Imperial alarms sounded really scary and cool. Especially the low pitched, slower one from when the Star Destroyers nearly crashed into one another in Empire.

I'm glad to hear that somebody else appreciates them, too.

I have a toy Star Destroyer that plays an electronic alarm sound effect, but it's the high pitched, fast verion. I used to drive my parents absolutely nuts playing with that thing.

I wonder if those sounds wern't actually taken from a real, machanical sound source and modified, like skywalker sound usually does.

If they were actual alarms, they would probably work like a klaxon, where a motor-driven gear contacts a metal stud set in the center of a diaphragm. The Star Wars alarms have the correct windup/down for a klaxon but do not have the raspiness of the metal-to-metal contact. Perhaps some other method of using a motor to operate a diaphragm would work, or perhaps a thicker diaphragm that would soften the abrasive sound somewhat.

This sound could also be approximated with a steam or compressed air siren, but it is unlikely that Lucas designed Imperial destroyers to run on steam.

Daniel wrote:If they were actual alarms, they would probably work like a klaxon, where a motor-driven gear contacts a metal stud set in the center of a diaphragm. The Star Wars alarms have the correct windup/down for a klaxon but do not have the raspiness of the metal-to-metal contact. Perhaps some other method of using a motor to operate a diaphragm would work, or perhaps a thicker diaphragm that would soften the abrasive sound somewhat.

This sound could also be approximated with a steam or compressed air siren, but it is unlikely that Lucas designed Imperial destroyers to run on steam.

Large Sound boards are wonderful things!!!

Thats interesting, never knew how those klaxons worked!

Humm how could i turn them into ringtones?

csx7006 wrote:Humm how could i turn them into ringtones?

My phone is a Sony Ericsson w580i (Walkman), and I can take almost any audio file on my computer and save it onto the phone through a USB cable. Most newer phones use a similar cable or Bluetooth connection. On some phones, you can email the sound file to the phone, but on older phones it is probably not possible to use this for a ringtone.

well i cannot download it from the putfile website.I have the blackberry curve.

csx7006 wrote:well i cannot download it from the putfile website.I have the blackberry curve.

http://nch.com.au/wavepad/index.html

Download this free program and you can record anything that comes out of your speakers.

dont want to post an old link but the links are dead