Hi guys, sob, sob.
I forgot after 5 years what a real DD sounds like, hope you enjoy.
Gary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfIfRv6l_g0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfIfRv6l_g0)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3qyR2z8xEs&feature=related]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3qyR2z8xEs&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6wlsBwKX7s&feature=related)
While the sounds of a great running DD are music to most of our ears, Gary, you must realize that the sample you chose is a GM Bus. Now, we know that Detroit's sound sooo much better when they're mounted in a quality Bus...say an Eagle or an MCI. ;)
I just don't think that it's Kosher for an Eagle owner to try to draw our attention to one of those old buses!
With tongue in cheek and a Thank You for your efforts......
NCbob
PS. The GM guys on the Yahoo.com groups have some mean sounding Detroit's too!
Let the record show that in my last post I was referring to the GM engine (which most of us refer to as DD's not the GM Buses. Egads! I wouldn't wish the MCI Bus Gods to revoke my passport to Bus Heaven! :D
Bob
Ironically, Louise just posted our DD sounds over on RV.Net, in response to a thread over there about diesel sounds. Here it is:
http://blip.tv/file/738493 (http://blip.tv/file/738493)
-Sean
http://OurOdyssey.BlogSpot.com
I have been trying for an hour to find a beautiful Eagle 8V71, stick shift and had no luck. I took what I could find. Thanks sean for sharing, if you guys got any more links, hook them up here, and crank up those Bose speakers and take a deep breath. I can't wait for the real thing, I am getting things ready Mike, got me my new injectors!! (8 of them),
Crank em up boys.
Gary
Gary, Gary, Gary,
You had me looking all over utube.
check these ones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6DYedz5dCo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj5U5hWWfis&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPm8B2NA5h4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YGacTToXx0
Paladin,
you'd the man, that MCI sounded good.
Ed, Ed, Ed, OMG, That guy that got caught under his car really did not sound much like a DD but did get my attention.
Thanks all for sharing, now to go to bed.
Gary
Just like My Fishy.. :'( :'( :'( :'(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6wlsBwKX7s&feature=related
I knew this conversation had to come around sooner or later. But this is the way it is. DD engines sound best in GM buses. Topping the list would be an 8V-71 with stick shift in a fishbowl, followed closely by the 6-71 also with a stick.
-- Seaton
The best sounding detroit has to be dave seigel's Will never forget hearing it come in down at jack's several years ago.
uncle ned
Uncle Ned, you forgot the sound of your own bus......
http://busphotos.busconversionstuff.com/photo/displayimage.php?album=19&pos=5
But I never get to hear my own bus. all i hear is the boss telling me how to drive. "LOOK OUT" "DON'T HIT THAT" "WATCH OUT " and things like that.
uncle ned
Quote from: NCbob on March 12, 2008, 04:06:55 PM
While the sounds of a great running DD are music to most of our ears, Gary, you must realize that the sample you chose is a GM Bus. Now, we know that Detroit's sound sooo much better when they're mounted in a quality Bus...say an Eagle or an MCI. ;)
I just don't think that it's Kosher for an Eagle owner to try to draw our attention to one of those old buses!
With tongue in cheek and a Thank You for your efforts......
NCbob
PS. The GM guys on the Yahoo.com groups have some mean sounding Detroit's too!
Are you kidding me? Everyone knows GMC is the real deal. If you can't find a Scenicruiser........you have not been lookin hard enough. Do work son!
Tom McNally
Dallas,
You are absolutely right, Uncle Ned's bus has got the best sounding DD we have posted here. I wish it were running longer and sliding through 1 /2 gear. Sob, sob, I can't wait.
Gary
There's also a good recording on the Pacific Bus Museum's web site, a 6-71 starting up.
http://www.pacbus.org/flash/detroit.swf (http://www.pacbus.org/flash/detroit.swf)
Now, does anyone know how to turn one of these into a cellphone ringtone?
Arthur
Depending on your ringer output format for your phone this may help.
First you need to make sure that you have the sound you want in the proper quality and length on your drive and then run it through this:
http://www.media-convert.com/
By the way, I use this to convert files from Youtube and save onto my machine, first paste the link in here:
http://www.videodl.org/
...and download which saves it in flash (.flv format) and then point the media-convert to the flv file and convert it and save as a movie format.
......if anyone cares, may be useful to someone besides me.
Actually, the best 2-stroke Detroits sounds came from the old narrow cab American LaFrance fire engines and ladder trucks equippped with the 318 bumped up to the fire service specs 350 employing N90 injectors and about 2500 rpm along with the older manual Fuller T-905 trannies. Very sweet music rowing thru the gears. Practically no mufflers. You could be resting in your rack in the dorm and easily hear neighboring apparatus responding to various calls well over a mile away on a still nite. Long ago and far away. Broom.... broooommmmm....... BROOOWMMMMMM!!! He he he. MORE RED WINE!! :) :) :)
The DD series 60, in the 102D3 of our hockey team's, is the most awfull sounding thing ever invented. Its smooth, awsome power and torque thankfully make up for that sickly, abominable sound.
The 4-71T in my Courier 96 is indeed sweet melody by comparison. The lope at iddle for the first couple minutes after start up always brings a smile to my face.
Oh... to have that as a ring tone on my cell...
Reminiscent of the Indiana Jones movie, the guy waving the sword and getting fancy - Jones shoots him. I spent about an hour (business is slow) trying the conversion packages Paladin mentioned, with no luck. Searching for ring tone conversion, one thing led to another, and I saw the idea about recording the sound directly into the phone.
Held the Treo 650 up to the computer speaker, and recorded the sound directly into the phone. Not the greatest quality, but I may not use it long-term anyway. I'd hoped to be able to assign it to certain numbers (wife, etc.) - but Treo seems to assign rings to all known, or all unknown numbers. An old friend has a phone that had a horror scream as its ring, only funny the first time. I can see me sitting with a client, and having a 6-71 start up on my hip. Even in the bus business, that may be a little too much. Fun for now, though.
Paladin, thanks for the references.
Arthur
I have some 6-71 MP3's that I use for ringtones if anyone wants them.
I would also be glad to take your favorite sound and convert it to a ringtone. Just send it via my email. Make the recording 30 second or less. You might also include what format your phone uses, or at least what brand and model of phone.
Dallas