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Even with bone conduction recordings don't come close to the reality of an artillery barrage up close and personal. The shaft of flame out the muzzle, the inte

Even with bone conduction recordings don't come close to the reality of an artillery barrage up close and personal. The shaft of flame out the muzzle, the intensity of the shock, it resonates through the whole body, shocking even the meat.

dylan604 6y ago
There's just somethings that will never be able to properly simulate real-world situations. Real-life ordinance going off around you is definitely one of them. However, if you can do anything to get visitors into a museum to have more of an experience rather than just some reading of text and looking at a thing, then the visitor is much more likely to actually retain some of that information.
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- est31 6y ago
  > There's just somethings that will never be able to properly simulate real-world situations. Until we get brain stem neural implants that can give you a full body experience :).
ashtonkem 6y ago
The problem is that you would have to actually hurt your museum goers in order to recreate the effect, since those sound impulses must have been well over the 140db hearing safe limit.
- varjag 6y ago
  It's not the volume that makes them distinctive; you can have just as high SPL from small arms fire. My closest experience was a staged tank platoon attack, firing blanks at us. Bone-shaking is a good description, even far away from the muzzle blast - while the sound pressure was tolerable.
AngryData 6y ago
I remember reading about some specialty tube based Drum and Bass speakers that went much lower and much more powerful than even commercial subwoofers that could probably help. They were notable because they were causing structural damage to venues. That said, not sure how you would set that up in a museum setting because even a "sound proof" room wouldn't be able to contain such powerful shocks of sound and air.
- h2odragon 6y ago
  Long ago, I did "big bass" speakers systems in cars as a hobby / sideline. People would install huge stereos and then wonder, a few months later, why everything was now loose and rattling in the car, even when they weren't using the sound system. I personally launched the back window out of a station wagon with Beethoven once. I'm still proud of that one. I've never been around artillery, but have used small slow explosives for stumps; and that solid shock thump is in the neighborhood of what big drums give but it's like saying a puddle is in the neighborhood of the ocean. Its sound you feel.
  - chiph 6y ago
    I never got into the "Let's fill the bed of a minitruck with drivers" part of car audio, but I was surprised to notice that there are some vintage Bass 305 CDs on sale on Discogs in the $300-$500 range. Crazy.

dylan604 6y ago

There's just somethings that will never be able to properly simulate real-world situations. Real-life ordinance going off around you is definitely one of them. However, if you can do anything to get visitors into a museum to have more of an experience rather than just some reading of text and looking at a thing, then the visitor is much more likely to actually retain some of that information.

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est31 6y ago
> There's just somethings that will never be able to properly simulate real-world situations. Until we get brain stem neural implants that can give you a full body experience :).

ashtonkem 6y ago

The problem is that you would have to actually hurt your museum goers in order to recreate the effect, since those sound impulses must have been well over the 140db hearing safe limit.

varjag 6y ago
It's not the volume that makes them distinctive; you can have just as high SPL from small arms fire. My closest experience was a staged tank platoon attack, firing blanks at us. Bone-shaking is a good description, even far away from the muzzle blast - while the sound pressure was tolerable.

AngryData 6y ago

I remember reading about some specialty tube based Drum and Bass speakers that went much lower and much more powerful than even commercial subwoofers that could probably help. They were notable because they were causing structural damage to venues. That said, not sure how you would set that up in a museum setting because even a "sound proof" room wouldn't be able to contain such powerful shocks of sound and air.

h2odragon 6y ago
Long ago, I did "big bass" speakers systems in cars as a hobby / sideline. People would install huge stereos and then wonder, a few months later, why everything was now loose and rattling in the car, even when they weren't using the sound system. I personally launched the back window out of a station wagon with Beethoven once. I'm still proud of that one. I've never been around artillery, but have used small slow explosives for stumps; and that solid shock thump is in the neighborhood of what big drums give but it's like saying a puddle is in the neighborhood of the ocean. Its sound you feel.
- chiph 6y ago
  I never got into the "Let's fill the bed of a minitruck with drivers" part of car audio, but I was surprised to notice that there are some vintage Bass 305 CDs on sale on Discogs in the $300-$500 range. Crazy.